Past Sai Messages for the Day
Monday, June 14, 2021
Seeking good company and spending all available time in that comradeship called holy company (satsang), will help the aspirant a great deal. You are shaped by the company you keep; a piece of iron turns into rust if it seeks the company of the soil. It glows, it softens and takes on useful shapes if it enjoys the company of fire. Dust can fly if it chooses the wind as its friend; it has to end as slime in a pit if it prefers water. It has neither wing nor foot, yet it can either fly or walk, rise or fall, according to the friend it selects.
Sunday, June 13, 2021
You cannot expect sweet mangoes when you sow Neem seeds. If you want mangoes, you have to sow the seeds of mango. The earth is one but the seeds are different. You must sow what you want to reap. The womb of the mother is like the earth. The children will be good or bad depending on the thoughts of the parents.
Saturday, June 12, 2021
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.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Real meditation is forgetting oneself totally. It is forgetting the feeling of identification with the body completely. One has to totally give up attachment to the senses. Then only the mind will be steady.
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Service to God means service to the world. Wherever it is required, do service to others. But do all actions to please God. This is the primary duty of humanity.
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Whatever you do, wherever you are, feel that it is prompted by Swami and let it be acceptable to Swami.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
We should not criticize others. We should not hurt others or make fun of them. We should love all. This is what mother Easwaramma taught everybody.
Monday, June 7, 2021
When black charcoal comes in contact with fire, it also becomes red like fire. Holy company (Satsang) means proximity with God. You can find fulfillment in life by developing proximity with God and through performing service.
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Easwaramma was happy that I ate only simple food. She would say, “Swami , You should let the world know about Your food habits.” I said, I would certainly do so. Right from those days, I have been emphasizing on the need to have simple and Satwic food.
Saturday, June 5, 2021
What is meant by Samadhi? It means treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss alike. Sama-dhi (equal mindedness) is "Samadhi". To look upon light and darkness, pleasure and pain, profit and loss, fame and censure with an equal mind is Samadhi. Buddha termed this equal mindedness as Nirvana.
Friday, June 4, 2021
The heart should be pure and soft like butter. Fill your hearts with compassion. Let your speech be sweet and truthful. You will then be truly human.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Buddha declared: "Hands in the society, head in the forest" (Sangham sharanam gachchami)." He renounced everything to think about promoting the welfare of society. He declared: I take refuge in Right Action ("Dharmam sharanam gachchami."). What is this Dharma? Nonviolence is the highest Dharma ("Ahimsa paramodharmah). " Dharma means causing no harm to anyone.
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Buddha could not bear the sight of anyone in pain. He was saddened at the sight of the old ill-treating the young, of men in authority harassing the people and the big fish swallowing the small ones. He realized that it was wrong for anyone to cause harm to others. Hence he declared: Non-violence is the Supreme Dharma.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
No one should cause hurt to others by speech, action or in any other way. According to Buddha, true Dharma (Righteousness) consists in refraining from causing harm to anyone in thought, word or deed.
Monday, May 31, 2021
It is not enough to read the lives of avatars and messiahs. their teachings should be put into practice as much as possible. People must gradually outgrow their material attachments and develop divine love.
Sunday, May 30, 2021
In this transient and ephemeral world, one thing is true and eternal. That is Divinity. That is what everyone should aspire to attain. Sathyam Saranam Gachchhami (I take refuge in truth). Ekam Saranam Gachchhami (I take refuge in the principle of oneness).
Saturday, May 29, 2021
The real meaning of the Buddhist prayer, "Buddham sharanam gachchami, Dharmam sharanam gachchami, Sangham sharanam gachchami," is: You must divert your mind towards Dharma (right action). And the right conduct should aim at serving society. When this is done, society gets purified.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Buddha taught that to those who have attachment, it becomes a disease. To the renunciants, detachment becomes the means to liberation from bondage (Nirvana).
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Love is blissful and nectarine. The sweetness of nectar may have limits but the sweetness of divine love has none. It is beyond all measure. It is beyond description too; it can only be experienced. Buddha discovered this love, experienced it, and became one with it. God and love are not different.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Prema is fundamental, and that is what you should focus on. You have to develop humility on the one hand and divine feelings on the other. The festival of Buddha Poornima is celebrated to remind us that Divine Love (prema) is the pathway to wholeness (poornam).
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
A fourth requirement for man is listening to sacred words. When one listens to unsacred words, he can have only unsacred thoughts. The fifth quality prescribed by Buddha is living a pure life. What is meant by "living"? It is not leading a worldly life attached to worldly pursuits. True living means making one's life meaningful by ideal actions. Man's life must be governed by idealism in action.
Monday, May 24, 2021
The third requirement for every man, along with purity in vision and thought, is pure deeds. Everyone should do pure deeds. Through pure deeds man is able to recognise his human essence. Man is not merely an embodied being. By his capacity for developing good vision, entertaining good thoughts and performing good deeds, he has the power to transform humanness into Divinity.
Sunday, May 23, 2021
The second quality that is needed along with pure vision is pure thoughts. Everyone should have pure thoughts. Only the person who has developed purity in vision can have purity in thoughts.
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Buddha declared that everyone should cultivate at the outset a pure vision. It is only when man has a pure vision that he can get rid of impurities in the body, speech and mind. It is this purity that can protect man from invasion of impurities through the eyes and the ears. Hence the first requirement for every man is pure vision.
Friday, May 21, 2021
Bhakthi (devotion) is the nectar obtained as a result of churning the essences of many Upanishads and Scriptures. Real devotion is that which is buttressed by firm faith and is steadfast and unchanging under all circumstances. Only then does one deserve to get the fruits of real bhakthi (devotion).
Thursday, May 20, 2021
A devotee should be ready to gladly accept anything as God’s gift. Can you get sugar by merely requesting the sugar cane, instead of crushing it to extract the juice from it? Even if it is the best kind of diamond, will it shine in all its effulgence unless it is subjected to cutting and polishing? Similarly, it is only when man undergoes trials and tribulations, hardships, losses and sorrows that his real worth will shine forth.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
However long you may live, whatever scientific knowledge you may acquire, whatever position you may occupy, some time or other you have to know the Truth about yourself. Start knowing it from now itself. You should be on the alert all the time, because you can never know when the Lord’s Grace, His Love and Benediction will be showered on you, at what time and at what place and in what circumstances.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Develop self-confidence, which will lead you to bliss. Never give room for worries and anxieties. Gain sufficient strength of the body and mind to face boldly the difficulties, losses, and sorrows that may confront you in life. This will be facilitated if you practise the four F’s taught in our educational system viz., “Follow the Master (your conscience),” “Face the Devil,” “Fight till the end,” and “Finish the game.”
Monday, May 17, 2021
There is no need to think about what is past or about what is in store in the future. Of what avail is it to think of the past, which is irrevocable, or to worry about the future, which is uncertain? It is a sheer waste of time. Past is past, future is future. You can do nothing about either. What is most important is the present. This is not ordinary present. It is Omnipresent. The result of the past and the result of the future are both present in the present.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
It is true that mother, father, and preceptor are divine, but they are not entitled to dwell in the heart. They have to be revered, adored, and made happy. God alone deserves to be worshipped.
God is nearer to man than his mother. Closer than even the father. To give up such God is a heinous sin.