The late PEGGY MASON needs no introduction to readers of 'TWO WORLDS' magazine and 'PSYCHIC NEWS'. Born in 1909, she has written plays. filmscripts, a novel called "Cadenza". and two books on spiritual subjects 'TALES OF TWO WORLDS" (now reprinted for the 13th time) and 'NEW AGE COMPANION". Also "SAI BABA, THE EMBODIMENT OF LOVE'.one half written by her, one half by her husband Ron Laing.She was also well-versed in various branches of metaphysics and has contributed hundreds of articles to appropriate publications in this country and abroad. Her life and writing had been devoted to the service of Sri Sathya Sai Baba since she first knew of him in 1977.Since 1983 she edited a quarterly magazine dedicated to Sai Baba, with subscribers in 40 countries. She and her late husband (whose pen name was Ron Laing) ran the Kent & Sussex Sai Baba Study Center at their home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent..
Peggy's husband, Ron Laing wrote extensively on Sri Sathya Sai Baba since 1978, and in 1981 was the first european to be appointed a member of the World Council of Sri Sathya Sai Organisations, serving on that body for three years, setting up a Central Council and a Trust in the U.K. He passed from this life on January 1st. 1994.
"I have come for the transformation of humanity, and I shall be most grateful to each child of mine who helps in my task. I am with you always, for your heart is my home" - BABA.
A CALL TO PROJECT LIGHT. 'Time' seems to be speeding up and the vibrations quickening at an alarming rate as we have reached the new millenium. Everyone is noticing this increase in tempo. There are some who feel the world is hastening towards an abyss, like the Gadarene swine, but Baba --who will be with us in his present Form for another 20 years --assures us that although certain changes or events may occur, we are not to fear. He DOES ask us, however, to project, in our meditations, powerful shafts of golden light penetrating and dispersing the dark clouds around the planet, and over certain countries in particular, and THIS IS IMPORTANT. One could call it the LIGHTNING of LOVE --but without the thunder. (taken from Sai Baba Quarterly)
BABA'S DIVINE 'PLAY'Many of you will know that vibhuti and other phenomena regularly appear at the home of Mr. G. Patel, in Wealdstone, Harrow, London. Indeed, there was a column about it in the Daily Telegraph of March 6th, 1992, when the reporter sat and actually witnessed the vibhuti forming on Baba's large picture and other objects, like 'Swami's chair'. (The vibhuti is regularly distributed for healing purposes).
In honour of the 70th Birthday, Mr. Patel carved a life-size wooden statue of Swami and placed it next to Baba's velvet chair. Immediately vibhuti began to form on the staue's hands, gown & feet. Mr Patel took a photograph of this - but when the film was developed, to his astonishment, it was not the statue but Swami Himself in the photograph! (taken from Sai Baba Quarterly)
BABA SAYS: When the Golden Age dawns there will be harmony throughout the world and Love will flow everywhere. All thoughts of hatred will disappear. Today you cannot visualise such a state because there is chaos everywhere, fighting, scheming, hatred, evil; all the negative emotions are in the ascendant. But eventually change will come.
The arrival of the Golden Age will be heralded by a new coming, as well as some upheavals, sufficient to uproot the evil that is so prevalent today. Although the Golden Age lies in the future, man can prepare himself by turning to God and living his life in complete harmony with the infinite. That is possible now, if you surrender your will to God and dedicate your life to Him. You will become His instrument and, in that capacity, you will find fulfilment through service to humanity
Life is change, and change is taking place all the time. Only God never changes as God is the foundation of the universe and he holds everything in His hand. When you become perfectly attuned to God, you become part of that divine foundation, then nothing can affect you. At that point the past, present and future merge into one, and that one-ness is the omnipresent God
"YOU ARE ME"
..Always remember that you are Me and I am you. There is no difference. When you remember that I am you, you must also remember the the powers of the Divine are also yours---powers normally attributed to God, of omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence. You have to remember, 'I am God, I am not different from God. I am the eternal undifferentiated Absolute. Grief and anxiety cannot affect me. I am always content. Fear cannot enter me. I am Sath-Chith-Ananda -- Existence, Knowledge, Bliss'. Your problems will be taken care of by Me. Concentrate on Me. BABA
The following quotes are taken from "Sathya Sai Baba-The Embodiment of Love"by Peggy Mason and Ron Laing.
Swami also said to questions posed by Janet Bock and reported in her book"The Jesus Mystery" that Jesus attained Christ Conciousness at the age of twenty-five in India, when he was able to proclaim "I and my Father are one". After experiencing this identity with the Father, says Baba, "He returned to his own country. He returned to Palestine through Tibet, Afghanistan, Persia and areas which are now embraced as part of the Soviet Union,and by the time he arrived in his native land, he was in his twenty ninth year..." (pg68)
"The name Jesus itself is not the original name. He was named ISA. In theTibetan manuscript at the monastery where ISA spent some years the name is written as ISSA. The name ISA means the Lord of all living beings". I-SAor S-AI both means Ishvara, the Eternal Absolute..."(pg66)
*In a very sacred private interview with Baba, Peggy asked "Swami, there is something I've wanted to know for a long time. Did thephysical body of Jesus recover in the tomb? I mean it wasn't a materialised body of spirit...?"
Swami replied,"No-the physical body. No spirit- materialised body. The physical".
"Ah!" I said. "Then, did he journey to the East, continuing his mission to Kashmir?"
"Yes- and he also travelled to Calcutta, and Malaysia."
"Then is it the body of Jesus which was buried in the Rozabal Shrine at Srinagar in Kashmir?"
Swami nodded, and said,"Yes", so simply,with an upturned inflexion in hisvoice,as if waiting for the next question, his eyes never moving from mine, with such gentleness".*
(n.b. Peggy Mason had written a whole chapter on the research that went into the above question)
