God will never claim Himself as God to all the public.

dattaswami · Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2008 Posts: 80

God will never claim Himself as God to all the public.
God reveals Himself only to a rare deserving devotee in person secretly
God hides His identity and divinity.
Nivrutti is always reserved to a very few devotees, who stand firm in spite of His severe opposition

Shri Baba never said that He is God. He was referring always the Shiridi Sai Baba existing in Him as God. God will never claim Himself as God to all the public. He reveals Himself only to a rare deserving devotee in person secretly, since it cannot be digested by all. Krishna revealed Himself as God to Arjuna only in person and told that it should be kept as a top secret (Rahasyam hyetaduttam..Gita). In the court of Kauravas, He behaved as a human being only in public. Majority is always jealous and egoistic to digest the concept of contemporary human incarnation. Hence, the concept that everybody is God (Advaita) is frequently used by human incarnation to attract all initially and to pacify their ego.

Shri Baba was also telling that everybody is God and should behave like God by protecting justice in Pravrutti. It is only the faith of devotees to believe Him as God. Baba tried His best to set up a good peaceful society and never encouraged Nivrutti in masses. He never said that people should come and worship Him as God. He might have allowed the devotion of a few rigid devotees of Nivrutti. What all He wished was only a good society with protected justice. All His miracles were spontaneous and there was no announcement so far before performing any miracle. Only demons boast themselves as God by announcing miracles.

God hides His identity and divinity. Even if He exhibits it, it is only to strengthen Pravrutti. In Nivrutti the divinity is masked and God always hides Himself and tries to mislead the devotee. Even if He expresses divinity, it will be purely personal like Gita to Arjuna only or the secret flute song to Gopikas only in Brundavanam. Nivrutti is always reserved to a very few devotees, who stand firm in spite of His severe opposition and God reveals Himself secretly to such few blessed souls. His effort is always for Pravrutti, when He is exposed to public.