Past Sai Messages for the Day
Monday, January 20, 2025
The divine is the nearest. There is nothing in the world nearer to one than the Divine. God is very much nearer to you than your mother, and dearer to you than your father. You cannot afford to forget such a God. Bear this good counsel in mind.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Although living beings may vary from each other, God is One and indivisible. The sun shines over the water in the lake, in a well, in a vessel, in a river or over the ocean. Although the sun is one, he is reflected in different ways. The containers are varied, but God is one and the same in all beings.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
The Lord pervades everything in the cosmos with His myriad feet, hands, eyes, faces and ears. But people, not recognizing the fact, imagine they are the doer and indulge in all kinds of activities, thinking that no one knows about them. The Lord sees everything. No one can conceal anything from Him. He dwells inside and outside every living thing. Hence nothing can be hidden from Him. God dwells in all beings in one and the same form.
Friday, January 17, 2025
Human birth has not been gifted to man merely to indulge in worldly pleasures. None of the worldly pleasures is capable of conferring true satisfaction. They only increase your desires more and more. Therefore, people should give up worldly desires and recognize the principle of divinity.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
People assign value to everything in this world, but they are unable to recognize their own value. Then how can they ever understand the value of divinity? First of all, people have to realize the value of human life. Only then will they be in a position to understand divinity. God does not reside in paradise or Kailasa. These are His temporary camping stations. The true dwelling place of God is the heart of a human being.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
What is the true ornament of humanness? Lotuses are the ornaments of lakes. Houses and buildings are the ornaments of villages and towns. The waves of the ocean are its ornaments. The moon beautifies the sky. Character is the true ornament of a human being. The loss of this ornament is the source of all their suffering and misery.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Uttarayana Day (winter solstice, when the sun starts northward) has an outer and an inner significance, the inner having greater value for aspirants for spiritual progress. I do not attach much value to the outer meaning: the sun taking a northward direction from today. The six months from now on being holier than the six that ended today and therefore the Uttarayana being better suited for spiritual practices. One’s life must be a perpetual spiritual practice, and any day is a good day for starting spiritual practices, whether it falls in the southward or northward movements of sun.
Monday, January 13, 2025
On the banks of the river near Lucknow, there was a sage who addressed dogs, crows and men equally as God. He had realized the unity of all in the Divine Essence. That is the result of Divine knowledge, or intense devotion, where you see your Chosen Deity in everyone and everything. Be ever in that Divine Bliss, the bliss that comes from God consciousness, always and everywhere.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Do everything with as much love as if you were doing it for God Himself. In truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the 'I' in you and dress up to please the self-same 'I.' The husband loves his wife for the sake of the 'I' and the wife adores her husband for pleasing her 'I.' And who is this 'I' that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Science discovered for man the secrets of nature and the cosmos. But what is the benefit we derive from knowing these secrets? Knowledge is one thing; its proper utilization is a different thing. Of what avail is it to know the power of the atom if we have not learnt how to put it to good and beneficial use? The knowledge derived from science should be used for sacred and righteous purposes.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Vyasa has declared that service to man is the highest form of worship. Do not offend or harm anyone; that is true adoration of God. In truth, the other is you yourself. Awareness of this Truth is liberation (moksha). Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate; that is the surest means of earning divine grace.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
If you study the lives of great people, you find that it is out of trouble and pain that they derived wisdom. Without sorrow there can be no wisdom. It is pain that teaches many wise lessons to people. Not realizing this profound truth, people pursue pleasure endlessly. No doubt we need to be happy. But how is happiness to be achieved? It is only when sorrow is overcome that one realizes happiness. Hence everyone should welcome sorrow in the same spirit in which he greets happiness.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Everyone should regard oneself as a messenger of God and try to lead an ideal life. This means that one must give up selfishness and self-interest. This may not be easy. But with God's grace, it is possible to gradually progress toward Self-realization.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
In the quest for understanding creation, people are forgetting the Creator. By forgetting the Creator, people are failing to develop the quality of love. Why? Because God is Love and Love is God. When we forget Love, we forget God. When God is forgotten how can Love grow?
Monday, January 6, 2025
Person who masters the mind can direct their life straight and steadily on the path of truth, right action, peace and universal love. They can become children of immortality. Becoming immortal does not imply that one can avoid death and continue living in the physical body for all time. It means only that their name and fame will shine in the memories of people, when their character and achievements are noble and beneficial.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Education must aim at providing the child, not a livelihood, but a life worth living. For this, the acquisition of skills in doing or reasoning is not enough. Faith in oneself and in the divinity of oneself are absolutely essential. That is the precious treasure of wisdom, stored in our ancient scriptures and in the experience of the saints and sages of all countries and faiths.
Saturday, January 4, 2025
When you build a house, you install a door in front. What is the purpose of the door? To admit all whom you welcome and to keep out all whom you do not want. It has a double purpose; you do not keep the doors wide open, for all and sundry to come in as and when they like. So too, select the impulses, the motives, the incentives that enter your mind; keep out the demeaning, the debasing, the destructive. Accept the highest wisdom of the scriptures, the wisdom gained from the crucible of experience.
Friday, January 3, 2025
First, what human beings must recognize is their own innate divine nature. But they are not making any effort in this direction. They have become a slave to their senses and are wasting time on trivial matters. The primary duty of human beings is to understand properly their innate human nature and put it into practice.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
The year becomes new, the day becomes holy, when you sanctify it by spiritual practice (sadhana), not otherwise. Spiritual practice can grow only in a field fertilized by Love. Love or prema is the essence of devotion. The love you have towards material objects, name, fame, wife and children, etc., should be sanctified by being subsumed by the more overpowering Love of God.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Every second is a new moment in your life. Do not wait for a whole year to celebrate the new year and make new year resolutions. Utilize every second to purify your heart and fill it with love. You will then realize that God is yours, and you are with love. True devotion is the means to realize the Divine. Devotion means love of God without any desire for reward. Such devotion can be developed only through good conduct.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
It is not a question of surrendering or giving to someone else. One surrenders to himself. Recognition that the Atma is oneself is surrender. Surrender really means the realization that all is God, that there is nobody who surrenders, that there is nothing to be surrendered, nor is there anyone to accept a surrender. All is God. There is only God.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Monday, December 30, 2024
'Yes, yes, yes', refers to inner acceptance. Experiences and situations arise in the life of a person. His tendency is to say 'yes' to that which is pleasing and 'no' if the prospect is otherwise... This is a great mistake. Swami says 'Yes, yes, yes' to everything that comes to Him. All is the gift of God. Every experience given by God is good. Through sincere and loving inquiry, that "good" will be found in every experience. 'Yes, yes, yes' refers to inner acceptance.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Sunday, December 29, 2024
A farmer has to concentrate his efforts during certain favorable seasons, when ploughing and sowing have to be done. He cannot afford to count the cost or calculate the trouble. Rain or shine, night or day, he has to do the task, so that he can reap the harvest. So too, for you students, this is the period of life when you have to be active and alert. Your future is shaped by what you do now. Now is the very foundational stage of your life, when you prepare your mind, to meet its challenges and your intelligence, to solve its riddles.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
OM is in every place, mind, tongue, heart etc. First pronounce OM on the tongue and then say it in the mind. The sounding of OM 21 times is important; five organs of perception (jnanendriyas), five organs of action (karmendriyas), five life-breaths (pranas), five sheaths (kosas), and the Atma.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Friday, December 27, 2024
Spiritual practices such as meditation, Japa, mantra and bhajan are like soap. Without water, soap is not of use. The water is likened to love. It is the water that is important. Without love you live in death. Love is life. All are one; be alike to everyone.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Thursday, December 26, 2024
God is as a spring of fresh and sweet water in the heart. The best tool to dig a well to that inexhaustible source and savor its sweetness is Japa, the repetition of the Name of the Lord. Dedicate every action to the Lord and there will be no place for ego. That is the quickest way for the ego to subside.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Conversations with Sai (by Dr Hislop)
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Jesus knew that God wills everything. So, even on the cross, when he suffered agony, he bore no ill-will toward anyone and he exhorted those with him to treat all as instruments of His will. "All are one; be alike to everyone." Practice this attitude in your daily lives.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Jesus came as the embodiment of Love and compassion and lived among men, holding forth the highest ideals of life. You must pay attention to the lessons he taught in the various stages of his life. 'I am the Messenger of God,' he declared, first. Yes. Each individual has to accept that role and live as examples of Divine Love and Charity.
Monday, December 23, 2024
Prayers for worldly ends do not reach God. They will reach only those deities who deal with such restricted spheres. But, all prayers arising from pure love, unselfish eagerness to render service and hearts that are all-inclusive will reach God. For, God is the very embodiment of love. We know that we have to see the moon only through moonlight. So too, God who is love can be seen and realized only through love. Love is God, Live in Love.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
The best way to resolve the confusions and conflicts that hamper moral, ethical, material, technological and spiritual progress is for man to live as fully as man ought to, and rise to the height of the divine that is his reality. That is the one eternal, universal teaching. The thoughts that the intellect frames must be reflected as feelings in the mind and translated into action by the hands. Thought, word, and deed must be coordinated. They must fulfil one another.