What should the impact of chanting the Lord’s name and spending time in the noble company be? Bhagawan lovingly explains today.
A person who claims to have gone to the seashore and played with the waves must produce, as evidence, at least a pair of wet feet, isn’t it? So too, when you come to this sea of Satsanga (the company of the pious) and share the waves of bliss, the proof is in the eye becoming wet with weeping; in the heart that exults when another is happy. Even when you listen, gather the honey as the bee does when it visits the flowers. It was said that the world is becoming Sai-mayam (full of Sai), with the Sai-namam (name of Sai) on everyone’s lips. I want it to go deeper. I also don’t insist that it should be the name “Sai”. The world must become Paramatma-mayam (full of the Supreme), with any of the many names and forms of the Supreme on the lips of people and before their minds! It’s the same substance poured into different moulds. Like sugar dolls that children seek, cats, dogs, cows and horses, all are of the self-same sweetness; one child prefers this shape and this name; another one weeps for another doll! The same Divine being appears in different times and places, assuming different Names.
– Divine Discourse, Feb 26, 1961.
