The influence of the Divine is such that while you are contemplating it, all traces of envy and greed will disappear from the mind.
In a Wonderful Divine Discourse on 14th January 1964, Swami spoke about the characteristics of the Divine incarnations with examples from Sri Krishna's life... The boy Krishna had entered a Gopee's house and was just standing beneath the pot of curds when she discovered Him. Krishna ran out into the street and the Gopee pursued Him, and wanted to catch Him soon, for she was so pained that the boy was running in the hot Sun. She never worried about the loss of curds or milk or butter, but the very thought of Krishna's tender feet walking over the hard stones in the Sun was something she could not bear. The divine love that Krishna showered, made every one forget everything else. He too gave such disarming replies to the queries of the mother and the Gopees that no one could have anything but divine love towards Him. That is the characteristic of Divine Incarnations, at all times."She was carrying the milk to the temple to be offered to God; perhaps God Himself took the vessel away from her," He would say, announcing indirectly His own Reality. "I was sleeping by your side, Mother. How then could I have gone away to their houses, to steal their butter?" He would plead--suggesting that He could be in more than one place at a point of time. When caught in the act of searching for butter, He would say that He had put His hand in the pot, just to find out if a calf that had run away was inside it! With such lovely retorts, He won a place in every heart and the Gopees vied with each other in fondling Him and serving Him. Krishna was the same Premaswaruupa (Divine love personified) even for the Grandfather Bheeshma. The illiterate simple Gopees and the old revered warrior Bheeshma, persons of all types, grades and professions found in Him their chief source of Wisdom, Grace and Inspiration. That is the sign of the Incarnation. Sai Ram
