‘Divine Humour’ - Is this an oxymoron? Divinity is serious business. Is it not? Then how can it be associated with humour, one may ask. The answer is simple. Humour is the sugar coating to the potent pill of Divinity. Humour has been used as an effective tool by a variety of Divine personages from Veda Vyasa to Ramana Maharishi.
Now, when Divinity itself has personified into human form, the human race – especially the connoisseurs of humour - will have to start stocking medicines for curing stomach ache, an effect which cannot be avoided when the human race starts laughing out loud on experiencing the jokes galore of the Lord through seeing, listening and reading. His jokes, however, are not idle ones - but jokes pregnant with deep meaning.
It is the characteristic of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba to give the greatest of messages in the form of a high velocity slapstick comedy such that the addressee does not know what hit him.
