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The foot with you, the way with me.
The eye with you,
the form with me.
The thing with you,
the dream with me.
The world with you,
the heaven with me.
So are we free,
So are we found,
So we begin, and so we end, You in me,
and I in you. Be happy
With Blessings Study well and be good God is with you
Baba
In late December, 1978, during my tenth trip to Sai Baba, a videotaped interview was held on the grounds of Prasanthi Nilayam, his ashram in southern India. The moderator asked me about the place of spiritual love in Western psychology.
Question: In your book [Sai Baba: The Holy Man and the Psychiatrist], Dr. Sandweiss, you described in your chapter on psychiatry a new element that Sathya Sai Baba has added to your understanding of human nature—that of divine love. Can you tell us a little bit about how that’s affected your work back in the United States?
Answer: Baba’s love touches us at such a depth and with such intensity that one can only describe it as omnipresent, unconditional, boundless—divine. It is his greatest gift to us, a gift which transforms the devotee—and I’m sure will transform the world as well. My first experience of his love was so profoundly moving that I saw in it the basic force which supports and sustains us all. Since then I have come to see my life’s work as trying to purify my own capacity to love, to express this love with those who come to me for help, and to help modern day psychotherapists come to know of this love that heals all illnesses.
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