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Of sleeping men, magicians, and avatars....
Listeners are often surprised to hear U.G. put God-men and magicians
on the same level. He mentioned a film made by a Swiss man that
looked at the lives of eight gurus from India. He spoke vehemently about
God-men and their miracles, adding that the magicians in the U.S. could
make jumbo jets and elephants disappear in a wink. One magician was
able to fill buckets and buckets with flowers right in front of his audience.
U.G. said that no God-man, especially Sai Baba the Avatar, would ever
risk performing their tricks in the U.S.A., because the powerful and
sophisticated cameras used there would easily expose them. He went on
to say that if the Avatars or so-called God-men really possessed
knowledge about any as yet undiscovered laws, it was their solemn duty
to inform the world, putting mankind on the right track and thus saving it
from its inevitable doom, instead of producing trinkets and ash, which
was, according to him, nothing more than cheap entertainment.
"They are going to survive as great survivors as long as they have
believers. You provide the fertile soil for their survival."
Subramanya asked U.G. how a stone could be worshipped as a God.
He replied that if a virus could pass itself off as man, then it certainly
cannot be difficult for a stone to pass itself off as a God. If man is
capable of inventing God, and then worshipping him, he is capable of
believing in anything.
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