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

Sai Inspires - 9th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 9th July 2009

When can peace dawn on earth? What is our role? Swami guides us today.

From the narrow vision of the individual need, one must voyage out into the broad vision of the Universal. When a drop of water falls into the ocean, it loses its narrow individualities, its name and form and assumes the form, name and taste of the ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a drop, it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence. Each one must become aware that he/she is part of the One Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. Make the heart big and the mind pure, only then can peace and prosperity be established on earth.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1976.

Virtue alone will bring the Grace of God- Baba

Sai Inspires - 8th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 8th July 2009

What can confer us peace and contentment? Swami guides us today.

'Dharma' or Right Action promotes peace and happiness, contentment and joy. Today, we are in need of persons who have attained purity in all levels of consciousness. One can reach perfect bliss only when his/her heart becomes free from envy, egoism, greed and other evil traits. We need persons who can recognize and relish the kinship and the identity that exists between man and man, as well as between one society and another. Dharma, Righteous Action alone provides peace, contentment and joy.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25 1976.

Turn inwards to acquire awareness of the Divine. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 7th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 7th July 2009

Why should we make chanting the Name of the Lord a part of our daily routine? Swami guides us today.

Those who sing bhajans get what can be called "Double Promotion", for they derive joy and distribute joy. Life today is filled with sorrow, it is beset with fear and despair. The only time you can forget these thoughts and strengthen yourself to meet the hard times is when you contact the Source of all strength, God. You cannot get that peace and joy while you bend under the burden of daily life. You are carrying a huge load of worry all day. Keep that aside for an hour every evening and spend that time with God, who can make your shoulders strong and your burden light. You eat twice a day for the upkeep of the body, should you not do bhajan at least once for the upkeep of the mind?

- Divine Discourse, , Dec 12, 1976.

Prayer is more desirable than pining for food. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 6th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 6th July 2009

What should we not even intend to hurt others? Swami guides us today.

When you intend to harm another, the evil recoils on you. The grief which you suffer is only an echo of the grief you inflict in another's heart. So when you have injured another, pray for pardon. Repent and resolve never to do it again. Through genuine prayer, mountains of evil can be pulverized and destroyed. From now on, decide that your words shall be soft and sweet, your acts beneficial to others and your thoughts always about how to serve others who are weaker and less prosperous.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 12, 1976.

Make all efforts to remove evil from your heart - Baba

When you intend to harm another, the evil recoils on you. The grief which you suffer is only an echo of the grief you inflict in another's heart. So when you have injured another, pray for pardon. Repent and resolve never to do it again. Through genuine prayer, mountains of evil can be pulverized and destroyed. From now on, decide that your words shall be soft and sweet, your acts beneficial to others and your thoughts always about how to serve others who are weaker and less prosperous.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 12, 1976.


Make all efforts to remove evil from your heart - Baba

Sai Inspires - 5th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 5th July 2009

Swami shares with us today a supreme secret which can really make our lives sublime.

The supreme secret is that man must live in the world where he is born like the lotus leaf, which though born in water floats upon it without being affected or wetted by it. Of course, it is good to love and adore God with a view to gain some valuable fruit either here or hereafter. But since there is no fruit or object more valuable than God or more worthwhile than God, the Vedas advise us to love God, with no touch of desire in our minds. Love, since you must love for love's sake; Love God, since whatever He can give is less than He Himself. Love Him alone, with no other wish or demand..

- Sathya Sai Vahini.

Through genuine prayer, evil can be destroyed. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 4th July 2009

Sai Inspires - 4th July 2009

How can we shine out in our lives and reach our true goal? Swami explains to us today.

Life has the nobler goal of self-illumination, of lighting the lamp of love inside oneself and sharing that lamp with all around us. Kama (desire) and Krodha (anger) are the enemies that will not allow that flame to be burning bright. Kama (Desire) is the lust for physical pleasure, for power, fame, wealth and scholarship. Krodha (Anger) is the result of foiled lust. If you long for peace of mind, you must take the spiritual practice that will confer peace on you. If you choose the wrong path, you cannot complain that you are lost. Salt and camphor look alike, but you have to exercise your intelligence to discriminate between them. Brass makes more noise than gold, but you should not be deceived by that and choose brass instead of gold.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 23, 1976.

Through genuine prayer, evil can be destroyed. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 3rd July 2009

Sai Inspires - 3rd July 2009

What happens when one is drawn to the Divine? Swami explains to us today.

Once the person is drawn to the Divine, the process of culturing or "Samskara" begins. Without this, the individual is fallow and feeble. He has no dignity or personality. A worthless steel lump is transformed by skilful manipulation and reconstruction into a watch that is worth several units of money. This is the result of the Samskara, which turned a steel lump into an useful tool for indicating time. In a similar manner, one can be transformed into a noble, efficient, happy and disciplined member of the society by implanting in him/her good thoughts, good feelings, good deeds and good emotions. Such transformed persons will spontaneously engage themselves in the task of promoting human welfare. They will be promoters of the ideals of the brotherhood of the man and the fatherhood of God.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 23, 1976.

Take One step towards Me. I will take a hundred towards you. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 2nd July 2009

Sai Inspires - 2nd July 2009

How can we expand our love? Swami guides us today.

Let us consider the act of "Chamatkara," the acts that attract and cause you to wonder. You see a flower. You long to hold it in your hand only when its colour or fragrance is attractive. You enter the market and see heaps of fruits. If the fruits are not attractive, you have no urge to eat them and benefit by them. Attraction is the nature of the Divine. When one renounces one's selfish desires, his/her love expands unto the farthest regions of the Universe until that person becomes aware of the Cosmic Love that feeds all.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 23, 1976.

Virtue is the sign of an educated person. - Baba

Sai Inspires - 1st July 2009

Sai Inspires - 1st July 2009

Why should we restrain from criticism and fault-finding, no matter how hurtful we feel about it? Swami lovingly teaches us today.

Do not seek to discover or discuss the evil in others, for the attempt will tarnish your own mind. When you are engaged in searching for the faults and the failings of others, you are paving the way for developing those faults and failings in yourself. Dwell on the good in others, and in time, it will prove to be an asset to you. The goodness latent in you shall then be urged to sprout and blossom.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 14, 1976.

Do not seek to Discover the evil in others. - Baba