Feeling The Omnipresent Presence

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"Kasturi says on my Birthday, I usually spend the day with Swami. On one birthday, He asked me to go to a place to attend a meeting of devotees, and I said “ What Swami? You are pushing me out on my birthday!"

Swami said, “What birthday? It is not an important event! To be born is a calamity not to be celebrated!

My name is Kasturi , Kasturi means musk, the fragrant stuff, which we use to put a dot on God"s forehead. Krishna had “Kasturi Tilakam" on His forehead. It is not only black, but also fragrant.

There is a temple in south India, where the God is known as Kasturi Ranganatha, director of the divine play, wearing a musk dot. I am named after that. So I told Swami that I would go to that holy place on my birthday.

Swami said, there was my own SWAMI in the shrine room. So everywhere, it is He who answers every prayer, in whatever language it is made, to whichever God it is made.

A mother once complained, “Swami, my son goes to Tirupathi, he does not come to Puttaparthi, for which the Swami said, “Yeh! Why do you worry? It is myself there also." He says, “Attend any church, call on any God by any name, of any form, I am there. “That is Prabhu" The Lord of all.

Swami says, "If you look at me, your image will be in my eyes, and my image will be in your eyes. We are all in Swami"s eyes, because His eyes are everywhere. “Sarvathah pannipadam sarvathokshi shirormukham." His hands, His feet, His eyes, His head and His face are everywhere to grasp you and save you from a fall."