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GOD EXISTS IN EVERYBODY
Baba: His questions contradict the very basis of Indian philosophy as well as that of most religions. All our scriptures assert that God is present in everyone. According to Vivekananda, “God is present in all.” The only thing that is manifest and common to the whole world and, in fact, governs and directs the entire universe, is divinity. Nothing else really exists except divinity.
Mine is no escapism but the fundamental and eternal truth. I say so not because I am unsure of my own divinity. It is my confidence in its absolute and total authenticity that makes me affirm this fact. It is the scientists who are so unsure of themselves that they indulge in escapist theories.
For example, they say that the moon is lifeless. Simultaneously, they maintain that all matter consists of moving atoms. Now isn’t the moon also a conglomerate of the same moving atoms? Then how can it be lifeless! There is no matter, which does not consist of atoms, electrons, neutrons and protons, which are all constantly moving. This energy, too, is God.
So also there is no human being in whom there is no divinity. To say that there is no God in man is like saying that there is no atom in the moon or any large lump of matter. The omnipresence of God has been described in our ancient texts as: “ano baniyam mahatoo maniyam” (God is a small particle in the smallest of particles and a large mass in the largest of masses). In this context, how can one say that God is not in man?
NO PREFERENCE FOR WEALTH AND POWER
Q: Another pertinent issue raised by your critics is that you show a preference for wealthy and powerful people as opposed to the poor and the weak in the matter of divine gifts, miracle cures and individual darshans. Is this true? If so, why?
Baba: This is wrong. 1 never see or make any distinction between the rich and the poor. 1 only look at them from the viewpoint of their devotion, their desires, the sacrifice they are willing to make and their troubles. You were here this morning and saw hundreds of people, a few rich, the majority poor. Did you find me making any distinction? All those I brought with me here to this room were poor and weak, sick or troubled.
In my view, those who appear to the world as wealthy or powerful persons, really bring to me their troubled hearts and sick minds. I cure them by asking them to surrender material wealth and power to spiritual peace and grace.
(End of first part of interview)