Sri Sathya Sai International Organization

You have come all the way from distant places because of your love for Swami. Preserve this love forever and live in the presence of God. Never forget this love, which is in you, with you, below you, above you, around you. Do not think that God is separate from you. He is the witness to everything.

The auspicious day for you is the day on which your mind is cleansed, not the day on which I took this human form. I am ever new and ever ancient (Sanathana). I come always for the sake of reviving dharma, for tending the virtuous and ensuring them conditions congenial for progress.

Without troubling to find out where God is, it is enough if one worships the mother and the father who are the living embodiments of God. By pleasing them and acting according to their wishes, one can get their blessings.

Today is a sacred day dedicated to women, they should change themselves and help to change the men and the children. They should develop the qualities of sympathy, compassion, love, and sacrifice. Study the lives of great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion, and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

I have a heart as soft as butter, but butter too must be warmed up in order that it may melt. Your devotion is the warmth.

Spirituality does not mean rituals and worship alone. Spirituality is that which demonstrates unity in multiplicity. God is love personified and is installed in the heart of every man. That is why since time immemorial, the Bharatiyas (people in India) have prayed for the welfare of all people in the world.

Watch the mind, just as you watch the cable through which the current flows. Do not establish contact with the mind, it is as bad as contacting the power cable. Watch it from a distance. Then only can you derive bliss. Search for the cause of ignorance where it resides. Then you will find that the mind in association with sense objects is the cause. Cut it off from the vision of sense objects and spiritual wisdom dawns.

When the spirit of inquiry gets sharper and deeper, it leads man beyond realms of the senses and even the feeble faculty of reason, beyond the stars and space, and helps him to dive into the boundless ocean of bliss.

Why has God given hands to you? They are not given only to scribble something on paper. They should be fully engaged in the service of God. Work is worship. Duty is God. Do your duty.

Before partaking in food, chant this sacred mantra. Then nothing bad will enter your heart. Annam Brahma; Raso Vishnuhu; Bhokta Devo Maheswarah (Food is Brahma; the essence is Vishnu; the one who partakes of it is God). These three correspond to body, mind, and action, respectively. Purity of thought, word, and deed is true wisdom. You don’t need to undertake any other spiritual practice. People undertake various spiritual practices (sadhanas). But they confer only temporary satisfaction. On the other hand, when you have purity of thought, word, and deed, you experience eternal happiness.

God has four qualities, and it is only when you cultivate them that you can understand Him. They are divine love (prema), beauty (soundarya), sweetness (mādhurya) and splendor (shobhā). The development of prema is enough to add to you the other three. When you are full of love for the divine in all creation, that stage is beauty (soundarya). When you are immersed in the sea of universal love, you reach the acme of sweetness (mādhurya). When your mind loses its identity and merges in the universal mind (God), then there is splendor (shobhā) that is indescribable splendor.

You have no need to go in search of love elsewhere. It is within you. A person makes every effort to accumulate wealth. An equal effort is needed to acquire the wealth of love. Human beings today invest their assets of love in pitiful ventures. Instead, they should invest all their love in the divine bank of devotion. This deposit is not only safe but will yield you increasing returns in terms of bliss. Your heart is the bank where your love for God should be deposited.

Once you take to the path of service, your problems will gradually decrease. Love all; serve all. Do not consider anybody as another person. Develop the feeling that they and you are one. The entire humanity is one. What you see in this world is only the reaction, reflection, and resound of the reality that is One. Once you understand this truth, you will be peaceful. Only then will your mind be steady and one-pointed in the pursuit of your study and profession. Therefore, first and foremost, engage yourself in the service of society.

You think you are a human being because you are endowed with a human body, but the Divine Spirit (Atma) that dwells in all manifests as your divinity. There are thousands of bulbs that have been put up for decoration. Their color and wattage may differ, but the electric current in all of them is one and the same. Like the current that makes all the bulbs shine, the Divine Spirit present in all human beings makes them see, hear, and function.