If a reason could be given for the purpose of creation, it could be
stated most simply as "love". For the Lord to create the cosmos
from the void of pre-time, there must have been a motive of special
significance. Surely just the manifestation of material and technological
marvels was not enough: the creation of men and nations was not enough.
There must have been an element, which would justify and fulfill the
creation.
Love was the reason and continues to be the justification. It is the
attraction principle of divinity, wherein all creatures find their common
origin and bond. Love is the energy of creation, which manifests as
positive and negative currents. In the polarity of opposites, all creation
came into being and forever afterwards seeks its union. In the return
journey to union with spirit, the material form is purified and transformed
into divine love and selflessness.
The basis for the entire world is the prema (divine love) of
the Lord. Even if one is able to get by heart the essence of all the
Vedas (sacred teachings) and even if one is able to compose poetry
in a very attractive manner, if that person does not have a purified
heart, he is a useless person. What other greater truth can I communicate
to you?
Summer Roses on the Blue Mountains 1976
The world is the field in which love grows and is harvested. It is
a battlefield of the senses. Where the play of good and evil is acted
out. Love vies against the selfish desires of the ego. The reality of
unity struggles to overcome the illusion of separateness. The experienced
of selfless love reveals God in the individual and within all creatures.
Love is the word, which indicates the striving to realize the
falsehood of the many, and the reality of the One. Love identifies;
hate separates. Love transposes the self on to another and the two
think, speak, and act as one. When love takes in more and more within
its fold, more and more entities are rendered as One. When you love
me, you love all, for you begin to feel and know and experience that
I am in all.
Sathya Sai Speaks 7
Unitive love is the fulfillment of life. It expresses itself as identification
with all, for as we grow in spiritual awareness, we expand the bounds
of our compassion. We start by loving family, community, nation, and
ourselves. However, true love is gained only when we see through all
false distinctions. When we see God in all creation, we cease to selectively
love only some and not others. This awareness fulfills life’s promise.
The Earth is a great enterprise, a busy factory, where the
product is love. By means of sadhana (spiritual practice), it is possible
to produce love and export it to millions and millions of people in
need of it. The more it is shared, the deeper it becomes, the sweeter
its taste, and the vaster the joy. By means of love, one can approach
God and stay in his presence, for God is love, and when one lives
in love he is living in God.
Sathya Sai Speaks 7
