Christmas Message
For people born with a mission, the days on which they take up the physical body should not alone be identified as their birthdays. Such days are birthdays only for the physical body. In fact, there are no births for that which is divine and sacred. They take up a body in order to fulfill a purpose. They proclaim and propagate the highest ideals. It is only when we put these principles into practice in our own lives and experience them, that we can say we have shown our sense of gratitude to them.
All are undoubtedly messengers. Everyone should experience, enjoy, and spread the gospel and glory of God to others in the world. When you do this, you can say, “I am the messenger of God.” Then, you should install the Master in the altar of your heart. You can very well say, “I am the Son of God.” You become near and dear to the Lord. You should let your love be enveloped in God’s love and you heart merged in God’s heart. This, indeed, is the close stage, when on the atmic plane, you get the conviction (born out of experience) that He and you are one and the same. This stage confirms the truth of the statement, “I and my Father are one.” Then one can experience identity with the Father.
Obeying implicitly Sai’s commands and injunctions constitute the first stage. Then you should transmit these to others, thereby establishing a link with the very embodiment of love in your heart, and at the heart level. This signifies the establishment of a final relationship between yourself and the Master, who thus becomes the Father. You now secure the right to consider Him to be the Lord, the overseer, the recipient, and your everything. Gradually after this, you will come to a stage where spontaneously you become one with Him. He will become one with you and all will be His. Now, there is only one kingdom, there is only one throne (seat), and only that (kind of) love is verily God.
You should experience the sweetness of that love. Truly that love is the blood of God, which the wine represents. Then the muscles (body), which God uses selflessly for service, is symbolized by the bread. When the ‘blood’ and ‘body’, are used together, you will understand what Jesus referred to as wine and bread.
The intoxicant wine which inebriates a person with worldly affairs and causes desires in him is the blood. The flesh which craves for material sensory pleasures is the bread. These two should be mixed together, and then by contemplating on them as God’s blood and God’s body, they should be transmuted into organs that are manifestations of Divinity. It is only then that they will become consecrated and pure.
‘Blood’ should not be taken to mean ordinary blood. It should be thought of as Sai’s blood. Only then will it become the offering, a mahayoga (the royal path) culminating in Sai. You should regard your muscles as masses of Sai’s love, and utilize them to secure Sai’s grace. Then it will become an offering to Sai and bring Him joy. This is the inner significance of the external symbolism, when people take bread and wine together in churches.
Prema Dhaara, Christmas message 1978, pp. 56-58
