Past Sai Messages for the Day
Saturday, March 1, 2025
People consider religion a bundle of doctrines and rigorous do’s and don’ts prescribed for people. This is totally wrong. The sacred aim of religion is to remind humankind of their divine origin and help to lead them back to God.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Even more than devotion and spiritual wisdom, pure attitude is desirable. Those who have acquired it deserve to reach the goal first. This quality of joy at all times is the fruit of the good done in past births. The first task of a spiritual aspirant is the cultivation of enthusiasm. Through enthusiasm, spiritual bliss can be derived.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Maha Shivaratri is a day when one tries to establish friendship between the mind and God. It makes one aware of the fact that the same divinity is all-pervasive, that it is to be found everywhere.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The lesson of Maha Shivaratri is that devotees should foster good and sacred thoughts. They should be filled with godly thoughts. They should seek to become one with the Divine by reflecting on their inherent divinity. If you constantly chant the name of God, God realization will come in due course.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Every day during the dark half of the month, the moon, and symbolically its counterpart in the individual, the mind, wanes; and a fraction is diminished, its power declines. Finally, on the fourteenth night, there is just a tiny bit left, that is all. If a little extra effort is made that day by the spiritual aspirant, even that bit can be removed and mastery of the mind completed. The fourteenth night of the dark half is called Shivaratri.
Monday, February 24, 2025
A life without love is sterile and barren. Whatever one's difficulties or troubles, one should try to help others to the extent possible. Selfless, loving service to others, is the highest form of spiritual practice (sadhana). It represents true devotion (bhakti). Such bhakti is not affected by the reverse of fortune or changes in circumstances.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Try to understand My doctrine of Love. I often address you as "embodiments of the Divine Self". You will be true embodiments of the Divine only when you develop divine love. The only being worthy of love in this world is God. All others are only objects of transient attachment.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Just as you tend the body with food and drink at regular intervals, you must also tend to the needs of the inner (atmic) body by regular repetition of the name, meditation and the cultivation of virtues. Holy company, good attitude, and sacred thoughts are all essential for the growth and the health of the inner personality.
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.