Discourse Clip - Sai Inspires July 31, 2026

Where there is the feeling of absence, the truth of presence is also there. Here is a small example. Is Sai Baba present on the stage or not? If you say He is present, what is the basis of your saying that? You see His form and say that He is present. Suppose, I go inside after giving this discourse. If somebody then asks you, “Is Sai Baba there on the stage?”, you say, “He is not there”. What does this mean? This means that Sai Baba is there, but He is not present on the stage. If Sai Baba does not exist, then the question of His being present or absent does not arise at all. In the same way, people deny or accept the existence of God because He is there. It is only because God does exist that people deny His existence. If really there is no God, how can the word ‘God’ exist? Just now it was said, ‘There is God’. The first part of the sentence is ‘There is’ which denotes the truth about God’s existence. When we say ‘There is’, then the next question is who is there? It is God. Some people say, ‘There is no God’. The first part of this sentence is also ‘There is’ which denotes the truth about the existence of God; ‘no God’ is only the next part of the sentence. Even this negative sentence, ‘There is no God’ begins with the positive assertion ‘There is’. - Divine Discourse, Jul 07, 1996