Past Sai Messages for the Day
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Contemplate on the divine name, irrespective of religion, caste, creed, or gender. You can always chant the divine name of your liking. If you constantly contemplate and chant the divine name, it will purify your thoughts and feelings. Never forget the divine name. If you constantly contemplate the divine name, your life will surely be sanctified.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
When the heart is filled with good thoughts and feelings, all that comes out of the senses–your speech, your vision, and your actions will be pure.
Monday, June 16, 2025
There is no nobler quality in the world than love. It is wisdom. It is righteousness. It is wealth. It is truth. Everything is permeated with love. Everything in the cosmos arises from love, grows with love, and merges in love.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
The Gayatri has three parts: 1. Praise, 2. Meditation, and 3. Prayer. First, the divine is praised, then it is meditated upon in reverence and lastly, an appeal is made to the divine to dispel the darkness of ignorance and to awaken and strengthen the intellect. Dhīmahi is related to the meditative aspect. Dhīyo yonah prachodayāt relates to the aspect of prayer. Chanting the Gayatri Mantra purifies the mind and confers devotion, detachment and wisdom.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Recite the Gayatri. When you bathe, the body is cleansed; let your mind and intellect also be cleansed. Make it a point to repeat it when you bathe as well as before every meal, when you wake from sleep, and when you go to bed. And also repeat peace (shanti) thrice at the end, for that repetition will give peace to three entities in you - body, mind, and soul.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Bear in mind the three P's - Purity, Patience and Perseverance. With these three you are bound to acquire good health and bliss.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Once you understand the principle of love, you can understand the entire universe. First and foremost, man should have strong faith. Where there is faith, there is love; where there is love, there is truth; where there is truth, there is peace. You don’t need to search for peace elsewhere. It is within you.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Pure thoughts and feelings will always keep us cheerful. I am always cheerful. People wonder how Sai Baba could always be smiling. I cannot help but smile. I have no negative feelings, no bad traits, no bad thoughts nor any bad habits. I am always pure. You too should follow this example.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Keep the Name of the Lord always radiant on your tongue and mind. That will keep the vagaries of the mind under control.
Monday, June 9, 2025
For a bulb to light, you need a connecting wire, a switch and electric current. For man, that current is truth or God. It is energy. This divine energy must flow through the wire of right conduct (dharma) and reach the bulb of peace (shanti) and produce the light of love (prema).
Sunday, June 8, 2025
At the outset, the ego has to be destroyed. Then anger will subside. Do your duty. Do not project your ego. Develop mutual helpfulness. Carry on with your work with joy. Be friendly towards each other. It is only when you behave in this manner that you will realize the benefits of spiritual practice. Through love, eliminate your bad traits.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
It is essential to recite the Gayatri mantra at least three times during the morning, noon, and evening. This will serve to reduce the effects of one’s karma. It is like buying goods for cash, instead of getting them on credit. There is no accumulation of karmic (a result of action) debt since each day's karma (action) is atoned for that day itself by reciting the Gayatri mantra.
Friday, June 6, 2025
Names and forms may be different, but all beings are part and parcel of the same divine principle. You may call this a handkerchief. You may call this a robe. But both are made of cotton. Likewise, divinity is the underlying principle in the apparent multiplicity of this world.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
What is the real meaning of liberation (moksha)? The removal of attachment is liberation. So long as one has attachment, one cannot think of liberation. Hence, one should strive for detachment in the first instance.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
God does not consider how wealthy or how learned you are; He is concerned only with the sincerity and purity of your mind and heart and about how wholehearted and genuine your love is.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Devotees come here from all parts of the world. Each of them asks: "I want peace." Here are three words: "I", "want", "peace". "I" is ego. "Want" is desire. Remove the ego and desire, you will have peace. Ego and desire have enveloped peace. When the covering is removed, peace will manifest itself.
Monday, June 2, 2025
Man seeks to cross the ocean of samsara by penance, pilgrimages to sacred shrines, scriptural studies and meditation. But all these are of no avail without selfless service to other people.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Since God always protects, there is no need to be afraid of pain and sorrow. Difficulties are bound to come, but they also will go away. They do not stay forever; they are like passing clouds. But God is steady and permanent. Make God the basis of your life and think of God always.
Saturday, May 31, 2025
You may celebrate any number of festivals and undertake various types of spiritual exercises, but all this will go to waste if there are no divine feelings in your heart. Do not look at things that are unsacred. Let your vision be suffused with divine feelings.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Develop broadmindedness. Never give any scope for any doubt on divinity. All such doubts are but imagination. Never succumb to them. Follow only divine feelings. Follow the master, face the devil, fight to the end, finish the game. That should be the goal of your life.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Mankind aspires for bliss, but how can one attain it? Where there is faith, there is love. Where there is love, there is peace. Where there is peace, there is truth. Where there is truth, there is God. Where there is God, there is bliss. The path of spirituality starts with faith and ends with bliss.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Everyone born in this world is an aspect of divinity. Consider everyone as divine and offer your salutations to them. There is nothing wrong in doing so. If you want to be respected by others, first of all you should respect them. You should love everyone. Only then will your life become a shining example for others to emulate.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Do you know the purpose for which the mind is given to you? Is it to wander in the back streets? No, no, the mind is given to you to experience bliss by contemplating on the beautiful form and name of God.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Everything must be done out of love for God, and for God – this is true devotion. Devotion does not mean mere chanting of the name of God, ritualistic worship, studying the Vedas, etc. All such activities represent but one aspect of devotion. True devotion is the direct flow of love from you straight to God. Unconditional and selfless love for God is true devotion.
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Your heart is like a big tank, and your senses are like the taps. If you fill your heart with the water of love, the same sweet water will come out of the taps of your senses. As is your heart, so will be your actions. Therefore, when you fill your heart with love, all your actions will be suffused with love.
Saturday, May 24, 2025
One should not act as their fancies dictate. Before doing anything, one should consider whether it is proper or improper. Nothing should be done in haste on the impulse of the moment. This approach will make one’s actions pure (satvic) and free from stimulating (rajasic) and dull (tamasic) feelings.
Friday, May 23, 2025
If you throw a stone in a well, it will give rise to waves. How far will the waves go? They will spread in the entire well and go up to its edges. Similarly, when you drop a stone of a good or a bad thought in the lake of your mind, its effect will spread to your entire body. If it is a bad thought, your eyes, ears, and tongue will see, hear, and speak all that is evil. Your hands will also perform evil actions, and your feet will take you to undesirable places. The effect of your thoughts will spread to your entire being right from head to toe. Therefore, the heart is very important.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Today, there is pollution in everything, such as the air we breathe, the water we drink, the sounds that are jarring to the ears and the food we consume. Because of this all-round pollution, one’s health is affected. Apart from this, one’s mind is also polluted, making one susceptible to diseases. Mankind should make an earnest endeavor to lead a serene and pure life.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
The God who is the origin and the goal can be cognized only by the pure consciousness, after the mind is cleansed. And, to cleanse the mind, one must start early. The race is won by those who start early and drive slowly; then, they reach safely, not otherwise. Walk on the path of God; the joy of the first steps will lead them forward.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Every student should undertake good actions which lead to purity of mind. Where there is purity, there will be attainment of enlightenment. These are all within yourself only. You need not search for them anywhere outside.