59 THE UNITY STRESSED

 

The Supreme Godhead is 'ONLY ONE'. This Divine Principle pervades the entire creation as its substratum. The world of objects, beings, and the phenomena, related to them are a superimposition on this 'Basic Reality'. In the Vedanta, this delusion is termed as MAYA. One who peruses 'Adhyatmic Vidya (spiritual knowledge)' as per the prescribed methodology, can gain the 'Atma­Bodha (Knowledge of the Self - The Reality)'.

 

In this booklet, at several places, we have quoted Sri Sathya Sai's words of His being the 'Sarvadevathaswarup', which confirm the Oneness of all incarnations The Principle being the same. Here are Shirdi Sai's words which reproduce exactly the same theme. "I am Fakir Bua", "I am Bandra Maulana" "I am Akkalkot Maharaj", "I am Mahalakshmi", "I am He who is in Pandhari­pur", "I am the person who taught Uddhava as mentioned in the Xl Skanda of the Bhagavatha", "What does it matter if you visualise this Sai or Lakshminarayana in your Dhyana? Both are same". "I arn Ganapathi. Mother, the offerings you placed before Ganapathi reached Me". "I am Dattatreya, I heard the prayers that came out of your heart at Gangapur."

 

In His very young days, Sathya, was affection­ately nicknamed as the 'Brahmin child'. Little did those, who had so named Him, realise that they were coining concretely the continuity of the two Sais. This becomes clear, when we remind ourselves of what Sri Sainath had decleared at Shirdi. "This Brahmin can bring lakhs of men on the White Path and take them to their desti­nation".