Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

tities are capable of such exercises of will. Brahman, which is All-conscious,
has therefore to be accepted as the Primal cause. (...)
When the will emerged, Brahman became God. And by that will alone,
God created the cosmos. From the superficial view, God and cosmos
strike one as distinct. But when examined with subtle insight, one finds
that there is not fundamental distinction between the material and the
maker, the living unit and the life principle. (...)
The cosmos - the five-element composite has emanated from the omniself,
the Paramatma, Brahman. There is no spot anywhere where its
manifestation is not. The cosmos is ever in movement; the Lord of the
cosmos is the mover. Worldly love is not genuine love; the love of the
Atman is the source of all such love. (6-39/42)
Fire or water is the product, the effect of the will. The word “projection”
or “manifestation” cannot be interpreted in a secondary or figurative
sense. The Atman alone is indicated as the Primal Entity in the Sruthi
or Veda. The urge or resolution is a happening in the Atman itself, not
in any other entity. The entire cognisable cosmos was just existence
(sat) or is. Whatever form it has assumed in the process of time and
in the perimeter of space, all of it is in reality existence only, that is to
say, Atman! This is the lesson the Veda holds. (...)
The individual believing that it is divided from the whole, the Universal,
is subject to desire and despair, love and hate, grief and joy. He is attracted
by the world of name and form. Such a person is characterised
as “bound”. Hence his need for liberation is urgent. And, to be liberated
he must give up his dependence on and attachment to the world?. (...)
This consummation is reached, the Divine awareness is won through
the grace of Brahman, wherein is the Atman to be sought? Where
does the Atman reside? How can one know the Atman? Adoring the
apparently consciousness-less things too as manifestations of the
Sovereign consciousness or Atman helps the process. The Atman
principle can be genuinely understood only by seekers who are
grounded in the formless, attributeless Brahman. But, even the attributeless
embodiment has the Divine reality in full measure. There are
many examples to illustrate this truth. Brahma wisdom (vidya) is another
name for understanding and experiencing the Atman as the
Brahman, the individual as the universal. (6-44/46)
When the cause is known, one can know all consequences. The entire
universe, that is to say, the moving and the unmoving, everything
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