The Light of Love
I was among over a thousand delegates from India and many other countries who had the rare fortune to hear Baba make His wondrous declaration to the whole world on May 17th [1968].
As I returned to California, flying across half the world in a day, the mind kept dwelling upon Baba’s words about His future revelations of “this Divine body.” There were tragedies in each country where the plane landed: uprising in France, struggle against oppression in Vietnam, and gloomy news in the press. I cried out, `Baba how can You take upon Your shoulders this enormous task? How can Your work make a dint upon the millions and millions of drooping hearts around this sorrow-filled world?’ With my limited view and understanding, the whole mess seemed to be even beyond Baba.
Baba softly spoke to me about these things this afternoon, and guided my pen. “Charles! When you look all around you and observe people wearing worried looks, you only look at their bodies. You look at them physically. You multiply these human beings and start counting them in their millions and, rightfully so, you multiply their gloom a million-fold.
“If you were to look at just one person, observe the gloom and multiply that one person a thousand times, then, that is how I `see’ each being. Man is not, as you now know, a one time thing. He dips to the earth with countless bodies, hoping each time, before he arrives, to start earning his liberation.
“Just as you once `saw’ Me lifting up a sick child from the inside of the child, so do I lift up all souls from the inside. Those who are fortunate to reach Me in the concrete form return to their homes with My love. By their own presence at home, these fortunate ones are then able to start drawing darkened souls upward. The process of raising mortals to immortality requires time beyond human understanding and patience beyond human endurance.
“At Bombay, you saw the tens of thousands of seekers of liberation striving to catch even a glimpse of Me. These numbers are but a drop in the ocean compared to the countless unseen darkened souls who try to reach Me from beyond mortal bounds. To all I give My light and love to help each move forward toward ultimate liberation from the cycles of birth and death.
“All who come to Me in their concrete form have fortunately reached the stage when they are beginning to `see’ the true reality while they are mortals. Those who cry for the chance to see Me in the concrete form have their prayers answered. To each I give every opportunity for My darshan, for they deserve My love, and each receives My love.
“There are those who may never `see’ Me in the concrete form; these have reached Me through a friend, a book, or a photograph. If they yearn deeply, I give each of these my darshan inwardly. These I love just as deeply for they have begun to `see’ their body and divine soul separately. This is true advancement toward self-realization and liberation, and peace can be theirs through loving the Lord in meditation. All who meditate upon Me will have shanti [peace].
“You had the good fortune to see Me in the concrete form for the first time in Bombay on May 10th. You, too, have been aware of some of My visits to you, but I have also met everyone countless times. Sometimes the Presence is known, most times it is not. I am nestled in the spiritual heart of everyone.
“A wave of outward change is constantly sweeping the world. Unfortunately, through greed and misguidance, many peace-seeking people have had their hearts and minds filled with fear and even hate. Craving for power has caused meaningless wars, causing untold death to the citizens. Not one ounce of plunder gained can be taken by anyone beyond the grave. Even this simple truth cannot be believed by most people.
“I have come, Charles, to bring the light of love to the world. It will reach the heart of devotee disciples; they in turn will let the glow of love surround them and reach outward to all they meet. That love is God; it can drive away the darkness. The magnificence and power of this divine body will burn brighter and brighter. Its beam will encircle the world just as it does the other planets. Love can spread faster than that of the lower forces because love is the ultimate goal. Fortunate is he who has this understanding for he knows no darkness, and neither can darkness, which is none other than ignorance of the truth, reach him.”
~Charles Penn, California, U S A
Source: Sanathana Sarathi, July 1968
