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India. Swami asked the geologist what it contained, and Dr. Rao mentioned a few of the minerals in the rock. Baba asked if there was something deeper. Dr. Rao mentioned, “Molecules, atoms, electrons, protons...” Swami said, “No, no, deeper still.” Dr. Rao indicated that he didn’t know anything deeper. Then Swami took the lump of granite from the geologist and, holding it up with his fingers, blew on it. Although it was never out of Dr. Rao’s sight, when Baba gave it back, its irregular shape had changed to a statue of Lord Krishna playing his flute. The surprised geologist noted also a difference in color and a slight change in composition of the rock. Baba said, “See, beyond your molecules and atoms, God is in the rock. God is sweetness and joy. Break off the foot and taste it.”
Dr. Rao found no difficulty in breaking off the granite foot of the lile statue. Puing it in his mouth, he discovered that it was candy. From this incident Dr. Rao said that he learned something beyond words and far beyond modern science, in fact, beyond the limits of the rational mind of man today. He said, “Science gives but the first word; the last word is known only to the great spiritual scientists like Sai Baba.”
Desire
The mind is made up of desires
Like the threads in cloth.
Take away the threads and the cloth disappears.
So too, the mind disappears when desire is gone. (SSB)
Desire is the impetus that aracts us to or repels us from sense objects, thus being the energy force that sustains the delusion of duality. We must overcome the pull of our mind’s desire for outer objects if we are to find divinity within.
Desires come in many sizes and shapes. Initially, they are biologically driven. We have the basic desire to breathe, to eat, to eliminate, to move, to talk, and to procreate. We have psychosocial and psychosexual needs as we develop, such as the
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