Past Sai Messages for the Day
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Parents, friends, relatives, house, and wealth are all temporary. Be aware of this truth. Worldly relationships are passing clouds. They come and go, but morality comes and grows. Do your duty sincerely. Duty is God. Work is worship. Never differentiate between work and worship.
Monday, September 19, 2022
What is the real meaning of liberation (moksha)? The removal of attachment is liberation. So long as one has attachment, one cannot think of liberation. Hence, one should strive for detachment in the first instance.
Sunday, September 18, 2022
God certainly listens to the prayers of devotees. Some people hesitate to pray lest their prayers should cause inconvenience to God. They are mistaken, for God can never be put to any inconvenience whatsoever. God has no suffering at all. God considers devotees' happiness as His happiness.
Saturday, September 17, 2022
People are not able to visualize God because of their narrow-mindedness. Expansion of the heart is divine, and narrow-mindedness is death. One with narrow-mindedness is verily a living corpse. One should always be broad-minded. You find divinity installed in the heart of one with expansive feelings.
Friday, September 16, 2022
The entire world is suffused with mental vibrations. In fact, the whole world is the very manifestation of mental vibrations. Hence it is necessary to direct our thoughts on noble paths. The human mind shines with resplendent purity if it cultivates noble thoughts, ideas, and feelings. It is only by developing the purity of mind that we can ensure the purity of action. Only pure deeds can yield pure results.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
If you throw a stone in a well, it will give rise to waves. How far will the waves go? They will spread in the entire well and go up to its edges. Similarly, when you drop a stone of a good or a bad thought in the lake of your mind, its effect will spread to your entire body.
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Everything is subject to change and decay in this world. Whether it be physical objects or individuals, all are transient and impermanent. Nothing is lasting. Only your purity is permanent. Purity is the essential nature of humankind. But if people lead a polluted life, they are degrading themselves.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The body has been given to you primarily for practicing righteousness (dharma). Such a sacred gift should be used only for rendering service to others and doing godly actions. This is the way to purify the body. Therefore, when speech, mind, and body are purified, internal purity is ensured. Purity calls for internal purity as well as external cleanliness.
Monday, September 12, 2022
You have to cleanse the senses, the instruments of action and knowledge, and remove all the blemishes of bad habits, tendencies, feelings, and thoughts. Render yourselves pure, steady, and unselfish. Only then can you deserve the chance to worship the God within.
Sunday, September 11, 2022
The body is the temple where God dwells within and is installed in the heart. But it is not enough if you go on repeating this pleasing axiom and pretend that you have joined the ranks of the good...You must behave every moment as if you are aware of the God within.
Saturday, September 10, 2022
You should develop the spirit of oneness. “I am present as the Spirit (Atma) in all beings,” says the Lord. The same Atma is present in you, Me, and everyone. The Atma has no differences of caste and religion. It is not bound by time, space, and circumstances.
Friday, September 9, 2022
Truth is the mother; wisdom, the father; righteousness, the brother; compassion, the friend; peace, the wife; and forbearance, the son. These six qualities are the true relations of humanity.
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Emperor Bali demonstrated through his sacrificing nature that if one sacrifices everything, one will attain liberation (moksha). The real sacrifice involves two things: First, to realize the cause of our bondage in this life, and second, to sever this bondage. People mistakenly think that things like wealth and family are their bondages, and that by severing connections with them they will be able to sacrifice everything and become eligible to attain liberation. But these are not the real bondage of human beings. Their real bondage is their ignorance in identifying themselves with their bodies. They who cut off their bondage as Bali did, will attain liberation.
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The quality of selfless sacrifice (thyaga) should be an integral part of one's actions (karma). All beings perform actions, but only human beings, if they so desire, can act, making sacrifice an integral component of their actions. Again, the existence of this trait in people is possible because of their ability to think and reflect.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
For cutting off the bondage of body identification, purification of the heart is essential. Purification of the body with soap and water and by applying perfume does not result in the purification of the mind. In this era (Kali Yuga), constant remembrance of God (namasmarana) is the easiest way to purify one's mind and surrendering to God with a pure mind is the surest way to attain liberation.
Monday, September 5, 2022
When the heart is kept pure, all our thoughts, words, and actions become sweet. When the heart is dedicated to the right purposes, all our actions become righteous, and our life gets redeemed.
Sunday, September 4, 2022
I present Myself to one who prays for Me with all their heart and with harmony in thought, word, and deed.
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Just as the body is an organic whole and any ailment affecting any part of the body is felt as a pain by the whole organism, people should feel that anyone's suffering is their own suffering. Any relief done to the other is a help done to themselves.
Friday, September 2, 2022
The Bhagavad Gita declares that the Lord is present as the essence (rasa) in all things. God is the sugar in the syrup. There can be no syrup without sugar. Likewise, God is immanent in all objects. He is like butter in milk, fragrance in a flower, the good element in every object. This is the significance of the scriptural dictum: "He is the essence of everything (rasovai saha).”
Thursday, September 1, 2022
The essence of all spiritual disciplines is contained in love. The greater a person's love for God, the greater the bliss that one experiences. When love declines in someone, their joy also declines equally.
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
From today give up selfishness (swartha), turn your mind toward the supreme (Parartha), lead a life of truth (yadartha), and sanctify your lives. Place your faith in God and do your duty to the best of your ability. Saturate yourself with love and share it with all. If you earn the love of God even to the slightest extent, you will experience infinite joy.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The truth is that which remains unchanged over time. You must live up to this truth. You must realize that the divine is present in everything. Only when you can recognize the omnipresence of the divine will you be able to experience the divine.
Monday, August 29, 2022
God is the embodiment of truth. Truth is the foundation of the universe. This truth transcends the mind and speech and is beyond the categories of time and space. Vedanta has described it as transcendental truth (ritam).
Sunday, August 28, 2022
The mind has a vital role in one's health or illness. That was why the sages declared, "The mind is the cause of one's bondage or liberation." When the mind is directed toward sacred things, everything in one's life becomes sacred. In such a state, all that you think, see, or hear becomes pure and sacred.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
True humanness consists in the unity of good conduct, good thoughts, and good speech. Never depart from the truth. Let love flow freely from your heart.
Friday, August 26, 2022
Spirituality is opposed to the ways of the world. Worldly activities cannot always be avoided. But if whatever is done is made as an offering to please God, it gets sanctified. Whatever you achieve, treat it as a gift from God. You will then realize your true humanness.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
People should understand the distinction between worldly love and spiritual love. Worldly love is based on the desire to receive. Divine love yearns to give. God's love goes on giving. This is the true mark of divinity. It is a sign of purity.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
In humans, the most divine quality is love. Love is God. Live in love. Cultivate love for all.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
A human has many sacred qualities, like love and sacrifice, but one does not put them into practice wholeheartedly. There is divinity in everyone. Without recognizing this divinity, one is wasting life on mundane pleasures. A human is the most valuable creation in the world. All things, however precious, derive their value from humans.
Monday, August 22, 2022
Love is life. Without love, no one can exist for a moment. Hence, love is the form of the Supreme Lord. It is to preach the doctrine of love that the Krishna Avatar and other divine incarnations made their advent on earth. According to the place, time, and circumstances prevailing then, different names were given to the Lord.