← Mother KrishnabaiHer autobiography

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Saints

O PAPA, the endless and beginningless! From the time of the opening of the Ashram you had been coming to the Ashram in the forms of many worshipful saints. As they are the parents of the whole universe they come to Anandashram in order to give us, their children, the rare joy of their Darshan. Their mission in life is to shower on their children their grace so that they might realise eternal happiness.

O Papa, the giver of bliss! Mahatmas are those who, having pervaded everywhere, are still transcendent. Therefore, wherever they go, in whichever house they reside, they consider the place and the house their own. So the Mahatmas, who are our mother and father, feel immense joy while at Anandashram. In certain circumstances, even if we commit any mistakes, they forgive us, as we are their children. Some of them offer to serve in the Ashram and when I agree, they do it with all love and joy.

O infinite Papa! Victory and victory to these Mahatmas who are giving joy and peace to all people. I, your little child, pray to you that these Mahatmas might shower their grace on all who are caught in the meshes of worldly life and grant them true and lasting happiness.

O all-pervading Papa! When you play as a worldly person you do so, taking yourself as a mere body. But when you play as a Guru you do so with the full consciousness that you are the entire universe and also beyond it. Whether you play as a Guru or as a worldly being, so far as the body is concerned there is no difference of any kind in both cases. Just as the father and mother, having body-consciousness, love their children and relatives, so also the Guru, realising the whole universe as his body, loves his disciples, devotees and all beings in the universe.

O Papa, who is infinite kindness! It is natural that all human beings love those who love them. We love more those who do things for our good. When we get anything which we love, we wish that those whom we love should also get it. In like manner, those who have attained eternal bliss, wish that the rest of the world should experience the same bliss. They extend their love equally to those who are related to them or any other who goes to them. The Mahatmas show more interest and give greater attention to those persons who are depending upon them for their spiritual progress and realisation of the Eternal, as also those who aspire for material gains. They are, however, more concerned with those who aspire for the Eternal.

Thus, the Mahatmas may appear to be loving some people more and some less. Those who do not understand them, seeing such apparent differences in the love of the Mahatmas, find fault with them. But as saints play with the full consciousness that they are the universe, they are always free from such blemishes, since whatever they do is for themselves and not for others.

O compassionate Papa! If we take our own body as an example do we not see differences in all parts of it from head to foot? Is there no variety in the activities of these parts? What the hand does cannot be done by the leg and vice versa. The work of the eye cannot be done by the ear; the work of the ear cannot be done by the nose. Each organ can perform only its own work but not that of others.

So we toil hard with the hands and feed the mouth. We do not feel, nor do the limbs themselves feel: “Why should the hands work and the mouth eat?” Besides, since we take the body as ourselves and do everything for its sake, we have no reason to feel sorry that the hands alone are doing so much work. In fact, the hand is at once ourselves and ours, and there is no reason to feel jealous of the mouth because it eats what is produced by the hand, since the mouth is ourselves and ours and what is done for it is done for our own sake. In the same way, those who have attained the knowledge that they are the universe and also beyond it, give to one and not to another, care for one and not for another, since all are they and theirs. They do all actions for their own sake. So there is absolutely nothing wrong in their actions. But this knowledge or experience you have not granted to all people. It is for this reason that they behold frailties in Mahatmas. Therefore, I entreat you, who are Purushottama, to bless all people with the vision of your eternal Being.