Past Sai Messages for the Day
Friday, February 21, 2025
Surrender to God means the absence of duality and being of the same nature as God. But such a state is beyond man's will. Surrender is when doer, deed, and object are all God. It cannot be forced. It comes naturally to a heart filled with love for God.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Believe that all hearts are motivated by the one and only God, that all faiths glorify the one and only God, that all names in all languages and all forms people conceive, denote the one and only God. His adoration is best done by means of love. Cultivate that attitude of one-ness (Eka-bhava) between people of all creeds, all countries and all continents.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
It is only when attachment increases that you suffer pain and grief. If you look upon nature and all created objects with the insight derived from the inner vision, then attachment will slide away.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Even in persons of an unpleasant nature, be aware that the Lord is present in their heart. Remember this and treat the person from that viewpoint to the best of your ability. In time that person will respond, and his nature will change.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Monday, February 17, 2025
The present system of education aims at making you bread winners and citizens, but it does not give you the secret of a happy life - namely, discrimination between the unreal and the real, which is the genuine training you need.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Develop love for all. Do not think that a person is superior or more devoted than the rest. Do not look down upon anyone as a disturbance and nuisance. If you have love for God, you will love all, for God is in everyone.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
How can God appreciate the meditation you do, when adjacent to you, you have someone in agony, whom you do not treat kindly, for whom you do not make all efforts to help? Do not keep yourself apart, intent on your own salvation. Move among your sisters and brothers, looking for opportunities to help; but, have the name of God on the tongue and the form of God before the eye of the mind. That is the highest spiritual practice.
Friday, February 14, 2025
The dawn of peace can be brought about only by learning, practicing and teaching the art of living together in peace and amity in homes. Then, peace in the world can be established, without delay and travail.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Your lives will be redeemed only when you contemplate on the divine name incessantly. All your wealth and comforts will be of little consequence if you do not have love for God. In India (Bharat), there are millions of people who serve their fellowmen with God’s name on their lips.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Whatever other things people may possess, they suffer from lack of peace and bliss. These two can be obtained only from God. It is for these two that people should pray to God and not for anything else, because God alone can give them. When these are secured, all other things will come of their own accord by the grace of God. People should yearn for God. All other desires are worthless.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The divine principle that is in everyone is like the electric current that illuminates the bulbs before Me here, which are of different colors and different candle powers. The same God shines in and through everyone, whatever be the creed, color, tribe or territory. The same electric current animates and activates all bulbs; the Divine animates and activates all. Those who see difference are deluded as they are befogged by prejudice, egoism, hatred or malice. Love sees all as one divine family.
Monday, February 10, 2025
The moon is reflected in a pot, provided it has water; so too, the Lord can be clearly seen in your heart, provided you have the water of love (prema) in it. When the Lord is not reflected in your heart, you cannot say that there is no Lord; it only means that there is no love in you.
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Engage yourselves in social service for the uplift of your community. Banish all differences and unite in the cause of promoting the welfare of everyone in the community. When the communities grow, the cities and the states grow and the nation on the whole prospers. The progress of the nation is based upon the progress of communities. Everyone should be interested in the welfare of their communities.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
The Lord is a mountain of love (prema); any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaust His love. God is an ocean of mercy without a limiting shore. Devotion is the easiest way to win God’s grace and to realize that God pervades everything and in fact, is everything!
Friday, February 7, 2025
You must carefully think over the consequences of whatever you say or do. In whatever way you want others to honor you, love you, or behave with you, you should also honor, love and behave with them in the same way.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Even if you don’t attain liberation by taking up the Lord’s name, one of these four gates will be open to you: Company of the virtuous, truth, contentment and control of the senses. Anyone who enters through any one of these gates will certainly attain the Lord without fail.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The body is given to you to toil hard. You should not feel bad about sorrows and difficulties. If there are no difficulties at all, you will not know the value of happiness. Pleasure is an interval between two pains. In fact, we derive pleasure out of pain only. Even difficulties are only for a short period. If you wish to acquire more happiness, you must experience some difficulty and pain at least.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
True service is that which is done with divine feelings, forgetting oneself. Service should be done as an offering to God. Service has value only when it is done with love for God and not attachment to body. Even a small act of service done with the sole intention of pleasing God will acquire great significance.
Monday, February 3, 2025
Everything in this Universe is born out of truth (sathya). Righteousness (dharma) has emerged from truth. It is said, there is no righteousness (dharma) greater than adherence to truth. When truth and righteousness go together, peace is the result. From peace comes love. This love envelopes one and all. There is no place in this world where love is not present.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
In the state of deep sleep, one is totally unaware of one’s name, form, position, etc. But on waking, they realize that the "I", of which they are conscious in the waking state, was present in deep sleep too. The purpose of all sadhanas is to discover the nature of the "I" that is experienced in all different states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Do not laugh at others or delight in insulting or demeaning them. There is no more heinous sin than hurting the feelings of others. Deserve the grace of God by helping the weak and poor, the diseased and the disabled, the distressed and the downtrodden.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Life is not bestowed for just eating and digesting, roaming and reclining, but, for a far greater purpose - the realization of the divinity in us, in all that exists around us and even in all our sensory experiences. To waste such a life in vain pursuits, and in mere sense-pleasures is not the sign of an intelligent person.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
The true goal is to always maintain a perfect state of equanimity and not to get caught in "sorrows and joys". Pleasure is an interval between two pains. Therefore, we need not go in search of pleasure. It is very much within us. In fact, you, yourself, are the embodiment of bliss.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
The service activities and the bhajans that you perform alone are not enough. You should give up the feeling that you are serving others. That is very important. You are serving your own self when you serve others. You should consider all as yourself. In fact, others are not others but are the very forms of God. Hence, service rendered to humanity is service rendered to God.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
People have to develop two qualities: fear of sin and devotion to God. To cultivate devotion to God, always endeavor to mix with good persons, engage yourselves in repetition of the Divine name (namasmarana).
Monday, January 27, 2025
There is no being without a trace of love. Love leads to bliss (ananda), pure and lasting. Many seek this bliss through their relationships with other individuals, others try to attain it by amassing fame, power and riches, and a few attempt to gain it by renunciation of material possessions and the desire for worldly pleasures. Detachment alone can confer spiritual bliss.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
The present Age, often condemned as Kali Yuga, is in fact, the age in which one can attain liberation most easily. This is revealed in every scriptural text. These texts reason that one can be liberated now by the spiritual practice of singing the glory of the Lord and listening to the Name being sung (nama sankeerthana).
Saturday, January 25, 2025
All the capacities given by God should be used in the service of the divine. There is no need to go in quest of God. God is all the time searching for the genuine and steadfast devotee.
Friday, January 24, 2025
God desires no offerings from any devotee. God is the only friend who confers benefits on devotees without expecting any return. Nevertheless, people do not readily accept such a friend. Only the person who accepts God as such a friend and is guided by His advice can understand the full meaning of divine friendship.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
There is no greater friend for anyone than God. He is unaffected by praise or censure. He does not give up on people, even if they fail to come up to His expectations. That is why God has been given the appellation, a good friend.