Sai Inspires - 16th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 16th July 2009

Why should we persist in undertaking the journey to the Divine? Swami lovingly explains our role in this journey of life.

Strive - that is your duty. Yearn, that is your task. Struggle, that is your assignment. If only you do these, sincerely and steadily, God cannot keep back for long the reward of realization. The river strives, yearns and struggles to merge with the sea from which it came. It has that consummation ever alert in its consciousness. It attempts to make itself pure and pellucid so that it may be welcomed by its source. It overcomes every obstacle of terrain in order to journey successfully towards it goal. Similarly, you too must utilize all the physical, mental, intellectual, moral and material endowments that God has granted you so that you may journey to the goal of Realization.

- Divine Discourse, Feb 16 1977

Love can never entertain the idea of revenge. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 15th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 15th July 2009

When can our service activity be really fruitful? Swami teaches us today.

Take an ordinary postal envelope. Upon it, in golden ink, write the address of a person in artistic calligraphy. Insert a beautiful worded letter full of amazing sentiments, and drop it into a postbox. What happens to it? It will not move even a yard away! Now take a simple post card, scribble unimpressive things with no special care, affix a stamp, an address and drop it into the box. What happens? The artistically ornamental envelope is inert, while the inartistic cheap document travels a thousand miles towards the person indicated. Therefore, whatever may be the uniqueness or importance, the furore or attractiveness, the service that you do can yield no fruit if it is done without a pure chiththa (thought or intention).

-Divine Discourse, Mar 6, 1977.

Love without duty is divine. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 14th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 14th July 2009

Swami explains to us today the correlation between our daily tasks and attaining joy.

By saturating work with love, it can be transformed into worship. When such work is offered to God, it gets sanctified into puja (sacramental worship). This makes it free from ego. It is also freed from the earthly desire for success and the earthly fear of failure. When you can feel that when you have done the work as best as you can, your puja is complete. It is then for Him who has accepted the puja to confer on you what He considers best. This attitude will make the work unattached. Regular practice of this discipline will render the consciousness clear and pure. Without this practice, however prospective your career might be, however much you may accumulate the wherewithal of a comfortable life, to whatever heights of authority you may have climbed through the exercise of intelligence, your gains shall be nothing, unless your every activity is suffused with the Divine purity, that is inherent in consciousness.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 6, 1977.

Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and Love. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 13th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 13th July 2009

What is the connection between practicing virtue and being able to see the Divine all around us? Swami explains to us today.

Seeing one's own reality is the opening of the doors of liberation. For this, the mirror of the heart has to be prepared by coating the back of the heart with Truth and Righteous Action. Otherwise the image will not appear. In every act of yours, if you observe truth and justice, then you can see your own reality revealed. You may say that the burden of past acts and their inevitable consequences have to be borne; but the Grace of the Lord can burn that burden in a flash; the revelation of reality, will, in a flash, save you from that burden.

-Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1976.

See God everywhere. Serve Him in every living being. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 13th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 13th July 2009

What is the true purpose of the Divine incarnation at all times? Swami kindly explains today.

The Lord is devoid of attachment and hatred. He comes on a Mission and is bent only on that task. His nature is to support the right and admonish the wrong. His task is to restore vision to man, to turn his footsteps along the path of morality and self-control, so that he may achieve self-knowledge.

- Divine Discourse, 25 Dec, 1976 .

Develop Love for all beings. Realize that God resides in all. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 11th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 11th July 2009

What is the vow we can undertake today and everyday to attain Union with God? Swami guides us today.

Let me call upon you to give up two evils from your mind on this Holy Day: Self-praise and talking scandal. Adopt one habit: The habit of loving service to the distressed. If you spend all your time and energy in worldly comfort and sensual delight, you are disgracing the human existence. Consider this body as a temple of God where He resides. Keep it clean, fresh and fragrant through developing Compassion and Love. Use the Temple of God, only for holy thoughts, words and deeds. Do not demean it by using it for low, trivial and unholy tasks. Wherever you are, whatever you do, have this resolution steady and strong.

- Divine Discourse, 25 Dec, 1976 .

Practise moderation in food, drink, sleep and exercise. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 10th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 10th July 2009

What is the true hallmark of an educated person? Swami lovingly explains it to us today.

You must realize that the divine current that flows and functions in every living being is the One Universal Entity. When you desire to enter the Mansion of God, you are confronted by two closed doors: The desire to praise yourself and the desire to defame others. The doors are bolted by envy and there is also the huge lock of egoism preventing entry. So if you are earnest, you have to resort to the key of love and open the lock. Then remove the bolt and the doors are wide open. The education you receive must train you to be successful in this difficult operation.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1976.

Desire is an insubstantial shadow; turn desire inward towards
spiritual treasure and it will yield substantial results. - Baba