Where is Swami?

 

Some people asked, "Where is Swami?  Where is Swami?"  When this author was in Bangalore as Principal of Baba's College, there was one deputy warden.

Whenever Bhagawan was due to go to Bangalore, they would receive a number of phone calls asking, "Where is Swami?"  People want to plan their journey, so they ring up to find out His whereabouts.

When he used to get a telephone call asking, "Where is Swami?", He used to reply, "Where is Swami?  He is everywhere."  Then the other person would say, "No, Sir, I know He is everywhere.  Physically, where is He?"

He is everywhere.  Baba gave an example about Himself.  Suppose that after asking, "Where is Swami?", you answer, "He is in Puttaparthi."  What does that mean?  It means that your mind has gone to Puttaparthi and thinks of Swami there.  But this is not the correct answer.

Baba has said that the correct answer to the question "Where is Swami?" is "Here (Ikhada); there (Akhada); everywhere (Yekhada), only One (Okhadey)."  "Here, there, everywhere, there is only One, Sai Baba."

(From the book "Sai-chology" by Prof. K. Anil Kumar)