Past Sai Messages for the Day
Saturday, December 17, 2022
If we are keen to experience the divine, we must devote ourselves to the divine. People go through various troubles for the sake of wealth, relations, position, and power. If they were to devote a small fraction of that time to thoughts of God, they would experience freedom from the fear of death.
Friday, December 16, 2022
Pure vision naturally begets purity in speech by the refinement of the heart. Pure words must come out of the depth of the heart, which is a fountain of compassion. Constant examination of the purity of one's vision, speech and action is a spiritual exercise. It is this that helps to refine the heart.
Thursday, December 15, 2022
What flower should you offer God? Is it a jasmine flower or a marigold flower? No, no. Offer the flower of your heart. What fruit is pleasing to God? Is it a banana, guava, or orange? No. These are not the fruits that you should offer. Offer the fruit of your mind. Similarly, God does not expect you to offer water from the Ganga or any other river or well. Offer God your tears of joy.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
God is the embodiment of truth, righteousness, and nonviolence. That is why the scriptures teach: Speak truth, practice righteousness (Sathyam vada, dharmam chara). Truth, righteousness, and nonviolence are the real forms of God.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
God is everywhere, and one need not search for God. In fact, God is in search of a good man. One who is a recipient of God’s love is a good man (human). Such a good man is a Godman. One should become a good man and a Godman. There lies the fulfillment of human life.
Monday, December 12, 2022
The divine is the basis for everything, objective as well as subjective. The eye cannot see, nor the ears hear unless the life-principle is active through the grace of the Atma or Brahman.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
The fulfillment of human life consists in the service that the human being renders, without any thought of return, in an attitude of selflessness… Such service widens the heart, purifies the impulses, and confers lasting bliss.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Develop love for God. All other forms of love are not love at all but only fleeting and impermanent attachments. One’s biggest folly is forgetting one’s divinity. All should realize that they come "from God." All are children of God. Everyone should seek to get nearer and nearer to God. That is spiritual practice.
Friday, December 9, 2022
God has no preferences and prejudices. It is but reaction, reflection, and resound! God comes to confer divine bliss, to foster divine bliss, to teach ways of acquiring and activating divine bliss. God absorbs the pain and sorrow of the world in order to prepare the hearts of humans for love!
Thursday, December 8, 2022
One’s thoughts, words, and sights should be filled with love. This is divine love. One who is saturated with this love can never be subject to suffering. Human beings today are affected by praise or blame. But one who is filled with divine love transcends praise or censure. He or she is unaffected by criticism or flattery. That person treats joy and sorrow, profit and loss, victory, and defeat alike.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Where there is love, there is no room for hatred. Do not be envious of anyone. When this evil quality appears, love takes to flight. A pure heart is the abode of love. Where there is purity, there is unity. Unity leads to divinity.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
God is the entity closest to the human being, dearest to the human being. Your mother and father might be a little far, but God is right with you, in you. Even if you do not love Him, He will not depart from you or move afar. Smaller than the atom, say the Vedas. He expands beyond the cosmos and fills all with grace. In every cell, He will be in you. You can earn this awareness through intense love.
Monday, December 5, 2022
Love of God does not mean giving up your normal duties. In the performance of these duties, every action should be done as an offering to the divine. Look upon the body as a moving temple, wherein God resides. Recognize that God is always with you and around you.
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Love must be manifested as selfless service (seva). Seva must take the form of food for the hungry, solace for the forlorn, and consolation for the sick and the suffering. Jesus dedicated Himself to such seva. The heart full of compassion is the temple of God. Jesus pleaded for compassion. Compassion was His message.
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Love can conquer anything. Selfless, pure, unalloyed love leads the human being to God. Selfish and constricted love binds one to the world. Unable to comprehend pure and sacred love, human beings today are prey to endless worries because of attachment to worldly objects. The individual’s primary duty is to understand the truth about the Love Principle. Once a person understands the nature of love, he or she will not go astray.
Friday, December 2, 2022
Love exists for love and nothing else. It is spontaneous and imparts delight. Everything is permeated by love. Love sees with the heart and not the eyes. It listens not through the ears but by the tranquility of the heart. It speaks not with the tongue but out of compassion.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Looking a little closer, we discover that life itself is love. They are not two but one. Love is the very nature of life, as burning is the nature of fire, wetness of water, and sweetness of sugar.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
There is nothing in this world that you should desire for. If any worldly desire crops up in your mind, give it up at once. Giving up desires is true renunciation.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Be pleasant to everyone; let everyone be pleased with you. Do not hurt or harm, by thought, word and deed. Purify your heart; cleanse it of narrow selfishness. Bring a million flowers and do puja (worship) with them. All will be rejected, none accepted. Bring a single lotus, your heart, so fresh; Sathya Sai accepts, and grants both love and peace. Offer your virtues as flowers. Virtues that spread beauty and fragrance. Offer your heart lotus freed from insects and pests like lust, anger, and hate.
Monday, November 28, 2022
Recognize the divine in your mother, father, and preceptor and revere them. Develop the conviction that the divine you adore, who is your favorite deity, is within you. That divine is Sathyam, Sivam, Sundaram (truth, goodness, and beauty). Plato (the Greek philosopher) declared that truth, goodness, and beauty are God. Irrespective of the country, these three are the eternal truths. With these truths in your heart, embark on service.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
A clear mirror reflects the rays of the sun. We can see the sun’s image reflected by the calm surface of clear water. Likewise, the sacred vision of Paramatma (the Supreme Self) is revealed to an unperturbed and tranquil mind in which all thought waves have been calmed.
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Keep the mirror of the heart untainted by kama (desire) and its chief attendant krodha (anger); then, the God within will clearly shine.
Friday, November 25, 2022
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.
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Time is precious. It should be used in the service of the divine. All actions should be dedicated to God. Only through renunciation can man realize the divine. Today people have forgotten the meaning of sacrifice. Sacrifice is yoga. Enjoyment is a disease (roga). Make your heart blossom every moment. Realize your oneness with the divine.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
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.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Selfless service alone will please Sai. Do not preach what you do not practice. Act according to what you say. Remember the significance of these directives and carry on your work in a spirit of dedication.
Monday, November 21, 2022
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.
Sunday, November 20, 2022
You have the supreme duty to revere the mother and the motherland. Wherever you may go or work, never forget the motherland. Students today should follow the good teachings of our ancient sages and seers and lead ethical lives. "Let us live together, strive together, bear no ill-will toward each other." This was the message of the Vedas. Let your love embrace the whole world. Treat all mankind as one family. All nations should be happy and prosperous.
Saturday, November 19, 2022
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.
Friday, November 18, 2022
Woman is the Goddess of nature. Gayatri, which enshrines the essence of the Vedas, is a Goddess. Venerated as the mother of the Vedas (Veda Mata). It is obvious that feminine birth is estimable, adorable, and sublime. The Vedas also adore the feminine principle in various ways. Vedic rituals and practices accord a high place to women.