Past Sai Messages for the Day
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Serve all with love, ever remembering the Lord's name. Without the name of the Lord on your lips, the mind will be running hither and thither. The mind is the birthplace of unsteadiness. Hence engage yourselves in action, concentrating your thoughts on God.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
You cannot avoid doing your duty whatever it may be. You must go on with it. But even while engaged in the performance of your duties, there can be nothing more rewarding than remembering and meditating on God.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Everything in the world is governed by the bounds set for it. However, love has no limits. ‘Anirvachanīyaṃ prema’ (Love is beyond the power of words), declares the sage Narada. The flow of love is the life-giving water for everyone. How is this love to be secured by one? Not by recitation or meditation or by studying the scriptures. God does not dwell in the Vedas or the scriptures. God dwells in the heart and should be sought there.
Monday, November 13, 2023
Leave all to Him and be at ease, it is the one with no faith that is tossed about on the sea, like a ship caught in a storm with neither rudder nor anchor. The devotee bears the ups and downs of life, keeping their mind in balance.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Expansion is love. Expansion is the essence of love. Love is God. Live in love. That is the Deepavali (festival of lights) message I give you. When a lamp is lit from another, there are two where there was but one. The first one did not stop emitting light. You can light a million lamps from one, yet the first will not suffer a bit! Love too is like this. Share it with a million, it will still be as bright as when it was alone.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Those who sing bhajans (devotional songs) 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.
Friday, November 10, 2023
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 will relish the bhajan (devotional singing) as you make it a daily function, like eating and sleeping. 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?
Thursday, November 9, 2023
To promote the feeling of unity, we must participate in service activities. We must utilize the body for cultivating good qualities, pure thoughts, doing good actions, and experiencing sacred feelings. Our life can be sanctified and made worthy only through sacred acts.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Today, we are wasting our time on physical and mental exercises for spiritual realization. The truth is there is only one divine spirit that is immanent in everything. There is no dichotomy between the worldly and the spiritual. The phenomenal universe is a projection of the spirit. All that exists in the cosmos are like sparks from a divine flame. All living beings have emanated from the divine and they have all the qualities of the divine.
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Love must grow with every moment of spiritual practice. It must sweeten every word, deed, and thought of yours. Emerge from meditation as a person more charged with love! Emerge from bhajan (devotional singing) with a greater measure of love! Return from bhajan with a firmer conviction that everything is surcharged with the same divinity that is behind all your activity.
Monday, November 6, 2023
You may attend to your daily routine. But, while attending to your duties in your own house or in the outside world, you must constantly remind yourself that ‘whatever I do, think or speak, everything belongs to God.’
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Selfless service (seva) is the only path to achieving true human nature. Sacrifice selfishness. Service to one’s country should be the primary objective. Continue in the path of selfless service until the goal is reached. There is no such thing as retirement or a particular age when performing selfless service ends. Life should be spent doing selfless service until one’s last breath.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Love-filled devotion is the easiest path to the divine. You must love all. The great quality of love is that it is the royal road to unity. All the diversity and manifoldness that we see in the world have come from the one. The one is the basis for the many. Once we realize the unity that underlies diversity, the problems arising out of differences can be resolved.
Friday, November 3, 2023
Make yourselves into a garland, and I shall be the thread holding all the flowers together. Consider yourselves the children of one mother, belonging to the human family. Do not give room for differences of race, creed, and nationality. All belong to the caste of humanity, the religion of love, and the language of the heart.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
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 will relish the bhajan (devotional singing) as you make it a daily function, like eating and sleeping. 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?
Thursday, November 2, 2023
God is not somewhere outside. He is the indweller in the body. Sin is the result of one's own actions. Hence, it is folly to seek God elsewhere. Human beings want to know all about the world and venture to explore outer space. But they are unable to know their own true nature. How is one to know one-Self? The Self is called conscience. The spiritual quest means using the vibrations from the conscience to understand the truth.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Without earning the grace of the Lord, all other acquisitions are of no value. Love alone can bind one to God because love is His being. One who is the very embodiment of love can be realized only through love and not by any other means. Human beings are also endowed with love. Through that love, one should secure God's love, fill oneself with love, and lead a life filled with love.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Foster the tiny seed of love that clings to 'me' and 'mine,' let it sprout into love for the group around you, grow into love for all humankind, and spread out its branches over animals, birds, and those that creep and crawl. Let love envelop all things and beings in all the worlds. Proceed from less love to more love, narrow love to expanded love.
Monday, October 30, 2023
Wherever you are, whatever work you do, do it as an act of worship, dedication, an act for the glorification of God, who is the inspirer, the witness, the master. Do not divide your activities as "These are for my sake" and "These are for the sake of God." Even if you divide zero by zero, you get one. When you work, there should be no remainder; nothing should remain over. See all work as one.
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Purity of thought, word, and deed is true wisdom. You don't need to undertake any other spiritual practice. People undertake various spiritual practices. But they confer only temporary satisfaction. On the other hand, when you have purity of thought, word, and deed, you will experience eternal happiness.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Love is divine. Love all and impart your love even to those who lack love. Love is like a mariner’s compass. Wherever you may keep it, it points the way to God. In every action in daily life, manifest your love. Divinity will emerge from that love. This is the easiest path to God-realization.
Friday, October 27, 2023
Though it is hard to restrain the mind, it can be diverted. When the mind steeped in the secular world is diverted toward divinity, it gains moral strength. The mind steeped in worldly matters makes you a prisoner of the world, whereas a mind steeped in God secures liberation for you. Your heart is the lock, and your mind is the key. When you turn the key to the world, it locks. But if you turn the key to God, it unlocks. It is the turning of the key that makes the difference. Hence, the mind is the cause of your liberation as well as bondage.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Good and bad, wealth and poverty, praise and blame go together. You cannot derive happiness out of happiness (Na sukha labhate sukham). Happiness comes only out of sorrow. A wealthy person today may become a pauper tomorrow. Similarly, a pauper may become rich someday or other. Today you are being praised, but tomorrow you may be criticized. To consider praise and blame, happiness and sorrow, prosperity and adversity with equal-mindedness is the hallmark of a true human being.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
My plan is to transmute you into seekers of truth. I am present everywhere, at all times; My will must prevail over every obstacle; I am aware of the past, present and future, of your innermost thoughts and carefully guarded secrets. I am omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. Nevertheless, I do not manifest these powers whimsically or merely for display. For I am an example and an inspiration for whatever I do or omit to do. My life is My message.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Dasara is a festival that celebrates the victory of the forces of good over the forces of evil. The sages who have decided on these festivals have a high purpose. They want us to imbibe the inner meaning and use each day as a step in spiritual practice (sadhana) as a reminder of each person's journey to the feet of the Lord alone. The forces of good are combating the forces of evil in every living being, and if they only rely on the great divine force (Maha Shakti) that fosters and fends the universe, they can easily win and reach their goal (enlightenment).
Monday, October 23, 2023
The divine is omnipresent and is in everyone and every object. This truth must be realized from the message conveyed by inhaling and exhaling that goes on in everyone 21,600 times daily. Each act of breathing proclaims the message: Sohum (I am He). With every breath, the message is revealed: ’I am God.’ Realizing this oneness, all actions should be done as an act of dedication to the divine. Unending bliss can be experienced in such a state of mind!
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Discrimination and detachment are the first and the second steps one must take to reach the eternal Atmic (spiritual) truth. The mind can be steadied only by the mastery of desire through the quality of unwavering detachment. Once the mind is still, peace reigns, and bliss prevails.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Learn to speak good words. Never hurt anybody with harsh words. Speak softly and sweetly to make all people happy. Good words bring good actions. You cannot always oblige, but you can always speak obligingly. When you thus speak obligingly, how much your status grows! Society will then respect you.
Friday, October 20, 2023
Manasa bhajare guru charanam Dustara bhava sagara taranam. (Contemplate on the feet of the divine master who alone can help you to cross over the ocean of life and death.)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
People pray to God to relieve them from pain, grief, and loss and to confer health, strength, and wealth. If you develop an intimate attachment to God and make God yours, then God will give you all that you need. Do not demean the relationship into bargaining.