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enhanced—and our confidence and faith in this vision grow. The more deeply centered we are in this reality; the more we are moved to greater expressions of sacrifice and surrender in its behalf. It is this sacrifice out of love, this holy act of surrender, that leads to the experience of union and the final realization that He and I are one. Such is the mystery of the dynamics of transcendence in Sai Baba’s simple teaching of brotherhood.
When I hear psychiatrists discount what on the surface sounds like such a simple teaching, I can only conclude that their consciousness has not opened enough to grasp the dire straits of our world condition, nor the great possibility of our human potential. Yet we must take these teachings with the utmost seriousness. Not to do so is to constrict consciousness and to be content to live in the shallow and narrow. It is a sign of great short-sightedness, an unwillingness or immense fear of facing our mortality—or immortality.
The ride to the hotel was painful. In two short days we had confronted something very central to our lives—and now we had to sit in the dark and let it settle. How sad if we were to let this chance slip by. Sitting at the feet of an Avatar, having the direct experience of listening to his words—what a shame if we were now to forget or dismiss his great vision of reality as easily as one would forget a journey to a common marketplace. Oh well, maybe tomorrow would be better.