In plain words
In such a state we cannot recognise the principle of God. That trust must take hold in us. That faith is our true breath. But because that breath keeps changing every now and then, and through differences of personal opinion, man falls into many kinds of sorrow, grief and discontent.
Faith never knows defeat
We are listening to so many words. You keep listening to Swami's words every day. But some need hear them only once, and they put them into practice all their lives. Even Anil Kumar, who gave this whole talk, gives good talks as long as he is here in India, in Bangalore, in Guntur. The talk is artful, attractive and splendid. But every now and then this monkey mind bumps & jumps. Now and then he himself says so. He doubts, ‘Is this true?’ To clear this doubt, I sent him to Tokyo. He went there and saw all their devotion and surrender with his own eyes. He came to know firmly that the root cause of all this is our faith itself. So wherever it may be, faith is never defeated. Only when that faith lessens a little do all the troubles come. Prahlāda loves Hari. Hiraṇyakaśipu hates Hari. Hiraṇyakaśipu argues one thing only: ‘Hari is not, is not.’ Prahlāda lives one faith only: ‘He is, He is.’ When he was pushed off the hills, who saved him? That faith itself saved him, not Viṣṇu. That faith itself took the form of Viṣṇu. So no one knows at what time, in what forms, where and how the grace of God will come.
God may come in any form
Once, in Shirdi, Tātyā's wife longed very much to cook a meal for Sāī Bābā. ‘You must come to our house, Swami! I am keeping a vrata.