Innate Nature & Desire
What is the innate nature of man and what is his deepest desire? Here is what Swami says.
“It is part of human nature that man desires to reach the presence of the Almighty, to see Him and be ever with Him, for deep within the human heart is the urge to reach the place form which he has come, to attain the joy he has lost, the glory which he has missed. Man is himself Divine and so it is a matter of the deep calling unto the deep, of the part calling for the whole.”
Sai Baba: The Embodiment of Love, Peggy Mason & Ron Laing, p. 110
“The divinity present in man and God is the one and the same. Though the bulbs are many, the electricity is the same. The bulbs differ in their radiance due to the difference in the voltage of the bulbs. Some people complain that the divine radiance is dimmed by narrowness of mind. The divine radiance shines resplendently only in those who have a broad mind.”
Summer Showers in Brindavan, 1993, p.44
“The divine is the core, the essence of your being. God is everywhere; when He is recognized and adored as the indweller of your body, it becomes a temple, and it is nor more a burden. God is shining, announcing Himself through you; He is expressing Himself through every thought, word and deed that emanates fro, you. In the temple that is built and put together, we have an idol that is sculpted and molded by man. But, in this temple that is gifted by God, God shines in His own light, and manifests in His own glory as love, power and wisdom. He shines and manifests thus not only in a single body, but in all bodies. He is the indweller in each.”
Baba The Breath of Sai, Compiled by Grace McMartin, p. 223
“The self is known as sath-chith-ananda (existence-consciousness-bliss). This triple nature of the self is expressed in the individual as the triple desire: desire to exist; desire to know; desire to have a joyous nature. These are three desires which every I cannot escape from. I must live, is the first. The will to live is over-powering and paramount. This is the urge for immortality. The desire to know is the second. This too is an unquenchable thirst and is an indication of the omniscience of which the I is the inheritor. The desire for joy is the third, prompting man behind the senses into the outer world for pleasure. This evidence shows that deep in the core of the I there is a spring of bliss which seeks its mate. … You are all forms of existence-consciousness-bliss; only you are unaware of it and imagine yourself to be this individual or that. This is the myth that must be exploded in order that the divine life may start.”
Baba The Breath of Sai, Compiled by Grace McMartin, p. 275
