I Am God and So Are You (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: 1926-1980: Reverence. In gratitude and appreciation. 1. Introduction. 2. 1838-1918: Sai Baba\'s years in Shirdi. 3. 1926-1940: Birth and boyhood of Sathya Sai Baba. 4. 1941-1950: Beginnings of the Mission. 5. 1951-1960: Preparing the ground. 6. 1961-1970: The mission expands. 7. 1971-1980: Arrival on the international stage. Vol. II: 1981-2010: 1. In gratitude and appreciation. 2. Introduction. 3. Education through human values 1981-1990. 4. Healing for all 1991-2000. 5. Water for the thirsty 2000-2010. Vol. 1: This pictorial survey of the first fifty years of Sri Sathya Sai Baba s earthly tenure records both the fast moving and exponential spread of his message and mission as well as underlines the unchanging nature of its inspiration, the undying power of Love in the heart. As the expression of love embodied, Sathya Sai in this book, demonstrates the unshakeable nature of the Divine. From the very first portrait taken in an age when photography was unaffordable to the rural population, the same steady glow of an inner poise which characterized the young master as is witnessed today after eight decades. Remarkably, this inscrutable youth from the beginning, could look directly and unselfconsciously straight into the camera because being fully conscious of the self the young Sai was unaffected by anything other than that reality residing within him. It is this one pointed advocacy of the supremacy of love that each of these photographs reflects. Whether in the Himalaya or the Deccan plateau the message is the same, that the Divine is close at hand and to find it we need to look not outside ourselves but turn inwards. The effect of this book is to build a meditative atmosphere in the viewer and through visual stimulus experience the oneness Sathya Sai s life exemplifies. We only escape illusion when we are asleep but the Art Baba wishes to teach is that we wake to our unlimited potential. We take birth to celebrate our divine inheritance and Sathya Sai s presence is a constant reminder of the compassionate state of being which every human being can attain. Vol. 2: Volume two of Sri Sathya Sai s spiritual journey from 1981 to 2010 witnesses the adventurous outflowing of his mission from backward rural India to some 180 sophisticated countries of the world. Having established and consolidated his base at Prashanthi Nilayam and made his mark by travelling all over India, Sai Baba opened his heart and mission to the whole of humanity. The response was phenomenal. Having activated widespread interest in the traditional fakir figure of Shirdi Sai Baba, he was able then to expand on this compassionate theme in a more modern garb, appealing to an emerging globalized world with its demand for evidence of the oneness of life. His timing was perfect to demonstrate through constancy of being how love is the sole Unifier of Human Aspirations. (jacket)