Baba says, “I am the Ocean of Knowledge. I simply tell you that I am your Father and that you have to remember Me.“

For half a cycle, I lived like an orphan stumbling through life with no one to truly look out for me, teach or guide me. It was no one’s fault, everyone else was stumbling themselves and besides no one, including myself, really knew me well enough to be able to help me. So although I might have had many relatives including physical parents, I still looked upward for help when there was a situation or circumstance. I was tired and exhausted trying to fend for myself, trying to figure out what was wrong, why life was hard, why I was feeling sorrow. I had so many questions but no real answers. I looked upward and said: “You are the Ocean of Love, the Ocean of Knowledge. I thirst for Your one drop…”

The Father comes and gives me one drop. What drop is that? “I simply tell you that I am your Father and that you have to remember Me.“

Ah! Now, I know what was wrong the whole time. I had forgotten the Father! No wonder, I was living like an orphan! Well meaning relatives took me to the temple where we stood together with others like us and with joined hands prayed before the idols of the deities, especially of Krishna and said: “You are the Mother and Father and we are Your children.” While I sung this praise, I recall not feeling the words I was singing, I wasn’t really experiencing the relationship of a child and parent- I never questioned it though! I never questioned how Krishna, a small child, could be my eternal Father or how, for that matter, Vishnu or Narayan could be my Father. A child and father should have some resemblance and here, pretty much no one in the world looks anything like Krishna or Narayan. So how could I ever feel like he is my father and I, his child?

The Father comes and gives me recognition. “You are a soul, not the body”, He reminds me. “I too am a soul but I am Supreme“, He explains. He is Supreme not because of His size or because He is as bright as a thousand suns, He is Supreme because He is Supreme in all virtues and He lives in the Supreme abode, far far away, beyond the sun, moon and the stars. “How could a child not bear to see his father“, He asks, “how could a father be as bright as a thousand suns? A father and child would be alike, wouldn’t they?” He helps me see things I never saw before or questioned.

Something else I never questioned is when people told me that Krishna related the Gita. I never wondered how a little child could relate the knowledge of the Creator and the creation? or why Krishna, the first prince of heaven, would need to relate the Gita in the first place! “I am the Ocean of Knowledge“, the Father clarifies “and I give you the knowledge of who I am (the knowledge of the Creator), of who you are (the creation) and of the beginning, middle and end of time.” Only He is the Creator and so only He would know these things.

But God is incorporeal and so people ask how He can come and relate the knowledge! “We’ve never read this in the scriptures”, they exclaim. Yes, incorporeal God can come. When people invoke a departed soul to feed it, that soul comes but the body of the soul doesn’t; the soul enters a different body. In the same way, incorporeal God enters an old, impure body to play His part; He names the one whose body He enters, Brahma. This is the same Krishna soul in its last birth. Why does God choose to enter this specific body? But surely, God would need the body of an experienced person! It is Krishna who is the first prince of the new world. It is this soul who experienced 84 births from the beginning to the end. The last of his many births is an ordinary birth. God enters the body of the Krishna soul at the end of his last birth- the same soul who was once Krishna, now becomes Brahma, the chariot of God. None of this knowledge- of the soul, Supreme Soul or of this divine incarnation- is in the scriptures because the scriptures are all written by human beings while this knowledge is related directly by God, the Ocean of Knowledge. Only He can give me His own introduction and He does so by actually coming to this physical plane, taking on physical organs and speaking to me.

“Do you have this intoxication?“, asks Baba. The One for whom the world is searching, for Whose one glimpse, saints and sannyasis undertake penance, for whom devotees undertake dangerous pilgrimages and observe fasts, He sits before me and teaches me. Wah, my fortune, wah! He becomes my Father practically and sustains me. He becomes my true Guru and guides me back to my pure, original self. He enables me to realize the self and the Supreme. And so with just the one drop of knowing who my Father is, I go from being an orphan to a child with rights, from ignorant to knowledge-full, from lost to found.

This isn’t just the story of Brahma, my Father teaches me. This is your story too. Krishna is not God, he is God’s most elevated creation, the first prince of heaven. He became that by studying Raja Yoga from God at this most auspicious confluence age of the cycles. When I study and make the same level of effort as the Krishna soul, then I too can become just like him and claim the sovereignty of the world. It is a high destination, the Father reminds me and so it requires elevated effort. It is now or never. And so the Father’s shrimat is: “Manmanabhav! Remember Me alone and follow My directions.“