PEARLS OF A SYNTHETIC TRUTH, SAI BABA

 I had and still have the privilege of meeting Sri Satya Sai Baba, often during sleep. The story I'm about to tell happened several years ago, when my wife was 2000 km far away from our house.

At that time I was receiving frequent visit of Sai Baba during sleep, at morning I would excitedly comment it to my wife, but she, as an anarchist that she was, would skeptically reply:"Oh well, but it must have been just a dream, wasn't it"?

But I would answer: " Oh no, it was a -real- meeting, because He spoke to me about some personal issue".

This kind of conversation happened several times and any time I saw the beloved Master, till she went to Barcelona on visiting her parents.

Meanwhile I had read a book where the writer described one of Sai Baba disciple asking the Master to give him the darshan as Narasimha, the Avatar with lion head, and Sai Baba satisfying the wish of the disciple there and then, gave him the darshan as Narasimha leaving the disciple petrified on the spot  the whole day standing as he was.

Then, in a childish manner me too expressed the wish to see Sai Baba under the terrible shape of the Lion Avatar.

One night while I was sleeping I see Sai Baba comfortably sitting on the sofa in my sitting room. I was so glad to meet again my beloved Master as God himself under a human shape.

Then He says " I have come to spend the night with you", meaning my wife and myself, I look over surprised towards the bedroom to see my wife too but she is not there, as I perfectly knew she was with her parents. When I turn again my eyes towards the divine Master  is not Baba head that I see but that of a huge panther opening its terrible jaws just in front of me! I was so impressed that even in my vision I had my hair standing on end and trembling like a leaf!

Suddenly Baba recovered His human shape looking at me kindly with a smile on his lips, and suddenly my wife too was there. Baba had a conversation with both of us, then he took my wife to another room and spoke to her privately, then I had the sensation that my wife was not there anymore, in fact, Baba sits again on the sofa and have a conversation with me alone.

Next morning I was so excited that I went again and again on the whole vision several times, my heart was jumping with joy in my breast: Baba had answered my unspoken wish to see Him as Narasimha, even if it was a panther that I had seen and not a lion! When I recalled that terrible jaws I would still trembling like a leaf, all my hair standing on end! 

Then I made up my mind that Baba said He had came to spend the night with "both of us", so surely my wife too must had seen Him though she was 2000 km far away, so I resolved to call her by phone straight away.

When she answered the phone was so excited that she didn't even answered to my hallo instead she straight away said to me: "Oh, I´m so excited -and she really was- you can't imagine -who- I´ve seen last night"! 

"Well - I replied- as a matter of fact I perfectly know -who- you have seen"! ( I actually was not less surprised than she was).

"What? - She replied on her turn even more excited: How do -you- know who I´ve seen?! And so tell me: Who I´ve seen?

-You´ve seen Sai Baba don´t you?

She could hardly stand in her skin and over excited answered me:- But... but... how can -you- know I´ve seen Sai Baba?!

-Well, I replied, because last night me too have seen Him and He told me that He had come to spend the night "with us"! So I imagined that you too must have seen Him! That's why I called you, to find out whether you had actually seen Him!

She could not find words and only repeated: "Oh my God... oh my God"! 

- Well, calm down and please tell me all of it! 

She said: While I was sleeping I suddenly found myself among a large number of Sai Baba devotees, it was -so real-! Baba was  slowly walking among us... at a certain moment Baba stop in front of me while looking steadily into my eyes without a single word! Oh, His eyes seemed to pierce my whole being! I couldn't take my eyes from his! Then after a while He left me continuing his slow walk among the devotees....

I myself was surprised because I was expecting my wife to meet Baba in our own house and yet it was not what I previously imagined.

-Now please, said her, what did -you- see last night?

I made her know in full details  the visit I received, including the terrible jaws and my hair standing on end, explaining her that I had formulated the wish to see the divine Master under the form of Narasimha, and He had kindly -and terribly- satisfied my wish. 

We had no words and for a while there was silence among us.

I felt she had calmed down and peace had showered down on her.

-Well, I continued breaking the silence, I guess from now on you will not answer me that when I see Baba during my sleep it is "just a dream"!

She didn't answer me, but I guessed she wouldn´t anymore... she at that moment must have been taken into some kind of deep devotion or an extasis from which could not recover. I repeatedly call her name but she just could not talk anymore, so I lowered down the phone and went my way still with my mind and my heart deeply concentrated on the beloved Master. I could just not make up my mind how Baba so far away in India had listened my silent wish to see Him under the terrible shape of Narasimha and the whole story, including the previous skeptical mood of my wife now changed into a deep surprise...

Time later our daughter came visiting me from Barcelona, she told me that my wife was regularly visiting a Sai Baba centre in that city and she had became a passionate devotee of the divine Master! 

Pearls of a synthetic truth/Perlas de una verdad sintética

 (english/español)

Followers of one or another Guru very often proof their inability for a synthetic Truth, to them, only their own Guru may talk about the “real” Truth while all the other Gurus lie and if they don´t lie anyway their teaching fall short when compared with that of their own Guru. We see this behaviour in religions too where "my God" is the real God and all the other God are a fake God.

Here I wish to propose some relevant  and incontestable facts, really happened, which demonstrates that among real Gurus there is not such a contradiction and that such things only belongs to the surface mind, and actually a mind unable to assimilate the Synthetic Truth.

While in America and some time before Paramahansa Yogananda left his physical body an American disciple told Him: Master, we all know that you will soon leave your body, pray take me with you, you are my God!

“Nonsense –Replied Yogananda- God is God, I´m just your Guru.  

“But Master! If you don't take me with you I will kill myself! She insisted.

“Oh, please stop with all this nonsense! God Himself is now incarnated in a human body in the South of India, his name is Sai Baba. After my departure you will go and stay with Him.

These prophecy proved to be correct because time later the woman went to live in Sai Baba ashram and never left till her death.

Swami Yogananda, which wisdom we can't doubt, spoke exactly in these terms referring to Sri Satya Sai Baba.

It so happens that Sai Baba (God Himself in Yogananda words) was born the 23^rd of November 1926 and the next day (24rd November) Sri Aurobindo informed his disciples that Sri Krishna had come down into the material (plane).

In a conversation held the 25^th August 1935 a Sri Aurobindo´ disciple asks the Master about the meaning of the 24^th November with the following words: “Which is the meaning of the 24^th November? There is disparity of opinions among your disciples. Some people say that the Avatar of the Supermind descended in you that day.

“Rubbish. Whose imagination is that?

“Well, I myself understood you achieved the Supermind that day.

“What was said was that the Divine, Krishna, had came down into the material (plane), it was proclaimed too that I would retire to work things out, if I had already achieved the Supermind that day why the hell I needed to retire? Sri Krishna had descended into my matter with an inevitable descent into connected general Matter, what is there of unclear about that?

With the affirmation from Yogananda that God Himself was incarnated and that His name was Sai Baba (born the 23^rd November) and Sri Aurobindo affirmation about the Krishna descent on the 24^th  November, we just have to assume they both were talking about one same Krishna, because we can hardly imagine some other Krishna descending into Sri Aurobindo´s and the general Matter.

Even so, disciples, students and Sri Aurobindo´s devotees pretend to ignore this True, while pretending to ignore that God Himself or Krishna had descended into a human form that very day, pretending that Krishna descent was something only concerned with Sri Aurobindo, losing in this way their opportunity to understand a Synthetic Truth affirmed by Yogananda, Sri Aurobindo, and Sai Baba´s existence itself at that moment.

This kind of attitude is not to underestimate insofar as it shows an inability to recognize the truth when we have it in front of our eyes or when we are informed of it through the Guru. It clearly indicates a mediocre level of understanding of the mind and this kind of fundamentalist game whereby only what our guru says is correct, or better yet, only what we think we have understood.

It goes without saying that this attitude is a serious hindrance to yoga in general and to integral yoga in particular, when we are supposed to move towards an integral truth and a synthetic true.

 

Los devotos de uno u otro Guru a menudo demuestran su incapacidad de una visión sintética de la Verdad, para ellos, solo su Guru ha dicho la verdad y los otros mienten, y si no mienten, en todo caso los otros Gurus no están a la altura de "mi" Guru. Podemos ver esta actitud también en las religiones, en donde "mi Dios" es el Dios auténtico y todos los demás Dio son falsos. 

Aquí propongo unos hechos incontestables, realmente acontecidos, que demuestran que entre los auténticos Gurus no existe contradicción, y que tales cosas solo pertenecen a la mente humana de superficie, y por cierto, una mente incapaz de asimilar la Verdad sintética.

Poco tiempo antes que Yogananda Paramahansa dejara su cuerpo se le acercó una discípula americana diciéndole: “Maestro, nosotros sabemos que te preparas para abandonar tu cuerpo físico, por favor llevame contigo, tu eres mi Dios!

“Tonterías – contestó Yogananda- Dios es Dios, yo soy tu Guru.

“Pero Maestro! Si no me llevas contigo cometeré suicidio!

“Está bien de tantas tonterías, el mismo Dios es ahora encarnado en el Sur de la India. Su nombre es Sai Baba. Cuando yo me vaya irás a vivir con Él.

Su profecía probó ser correcta en cuanto, tiempo después de la partida de Yogananda la discípula se fue a vivir al ashram de Sai Baba por el resto de su vida.

Este reputado Guru, habló exactamente con estas palabras con respecto a Sri Satya Sai Baba, y aquí no caben dudas o tergiversaciones ni nada de nada.

Se da la circunstancia que Sai Baba naciera el 23 de Noviembre 1926, y al día siguiente (24 Noviembre)  Sri Aurobindo informó a sus discípulos que Krishna había bajado a la Tierra.

En una conversación del 25 de Agosto 1935 un discípulo de Sri Aurobindo le pregunta sobre el significado del 24 de Noviembre con estas palabras: ¿”Cuál es exactamente el significado del 24 de Noviembre? Hay disparidad de opiniones entre tus discípulos, algunos dicen que el Avatar supermental descendió en ti.

“Tonterías – contestó Sri Aurobindo- ¿Quien dice esto?

“Bueno, yo mismo entendí que aquel día tú conseguiste la Supermente.

“Yo nunca he afirmado esto. Lo que dije fue que aquel día el Señor Krishna había bajado en el plano material. Y también dije que me retiraba a cumplir mi trabajo. Si el 24 de Noviembre hubiese alcanzado la Supermente ¿ por qué demonios habría tenido la necesidad de retirarme? Si Krishna, o la Supermente o su equivalente descendió en mi materia y en el plano material en general, ¿qué es tan poco claro con respecto a Su descenso en el plano material?

Con la afirmación de Yogananda que Dios se había encarnado en la tierra y que su nombre era Sai Baba (nacido el 23 de Noviembre), nos queda por concluir que el 24 de Noviembre el Krishna al que se refiere Sri Aurobindo es Sai Baba mismo y no otro Krishna que bajara –solo- en la materia de Sri Aurobindo.

Así y todo, los discípulos, estudiantes y devotos de Sri Aurobindo pretenden ignorar esta verdad, ignorando el descenso del mismo Dios (según afirmación de Yogananda), pretendiendo que el descenso de Krishna era algo  concerniente exclusivamente a Sri Aurobindo, y de esta manera pierden una visión sintética de la verdad y unos hechos históricos confirmados tanto por Yogananda como por Sri Aurobindo, como por Sai Baba mismo, protagonista de este hecho.

Esta clase de actitud, no es de infravalorar en cuanto demuestra una incapacidad real de absorber la verdad cuando se presenta delante de nuestros ojos, indica claramente un mediocre nivel de entendimiento de la mente y este juego fundamentalista por el cual –solo- la verdad expresada por el propio Guru tiene validez, al mismo tiempo que se demuestran incapaces de ir más allá de su misma comprensión de las palabras dichas por su Guru.

No hace falta decir que esta actitud es un serio obstáculo para el yoga en general y para el yoga integral en particular, cuando se supone que nos movemos hacia una Verdad Integral y una Verdad Sintética.