If I can express in two words one aspect of my experience, I may say I lived a kind of ‘phase’ in my relationship with Sai which, for any aspects it seems to be like the story of a son who, once has grown up, sees his father from a different angle. That is to say, God as a parent, has become a friend . Certainly Sai is the Absolute ‘focussed in one point’. He is certainly the Father, the Source, the Origin, but he has come here to tell us that we are also that Source. This fact has led me considering him someone equivalent to me like a friend, not someone who ‘towers over’ me like a father, but someone who wants to bring me to his own level. Therefore, I consider Sai more than a friend, more than a father: because with a friend you do not live a condition of subalternity, but an equal relationship.
In fact, what did Sai come to do if not to telling us ‘I am you and you are me?’…… as – albeit in a much weaker way – it is in that form of love which is friendship. Put another way: seeing Sai as the father is part of religiosity, seeing Sai as a friend is part of spirituality or it is a step towards it; obviously, each one must choose what suits him/her best . That is enough if what he/she has chosen is useful to him/her. What has been said is not a point of arrival: this duality ‘I and the friend’ must be sublimated to go beyond…… but this, as we know, is the continuation of the path.
Enrico Franceschini
Italy
