Past Sai Messages for the Day
Sunday, August 21, 2022
The lover of God sees God everywhere. Hence man's heart must be filled with the love of God. Love will not enter the heart of one who is filled with selfishness and self-conceit. Therefore, one should forget the petty self and concentrate one’s thoughts on God.
Saturday, August 20, 2022
The kingdom of love is located in a heart filled with love. Love can be experienced only in a mind flowing with love and a heart filled with love.
Friday, August 19, 2022
Love is God; the cosmos is permeated with love. Assuming the love form, to save His beloved ones, showering the nectarine stream of love, Lord Krishna came as the embodiment of love for those yearning for Him.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
A plant will grow only when it is watered regularly. When you have planted the seed of love, you can make it grow only by watering it with love every day. The tree of love will grow and yield the fruits of love. When you wish to develop love for the Lord, you must continually practice loving devotion to the Lord.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Love is associated with immortality. It is nectar itself. There is nothing in the world comparable to it. It is to teach human beings the truth about this divine love that love itself incarnates on earth in human form.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Love is a precious diamond that can be achieved only in the realm of love and nowhere else.
Monday, August 15, 2022
People pray to Swami to rid them of all difficulties and losses. This is a totally wrong kind of prayer. Difficulties must be welcomed and must be overcome. By overcoming trouble, the divine must be experienced. You cannot get the juice of sugarcane without crushing it. You cannot enhance the brilliance of a diamond without cutting it and making many facets. The body is like a sugarcane stalk. It is only when it goes through various difficulties that you can experience the sweet bliss of Self-realization. That sweetness is divinity itself.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Everything is born out of pure love; all joy is derived from unalloyed love; so are truth, sacrifice, peace, and forbearance. If love is lacking, there can be no contentment. This is the path of Sai and the word of truth.
Saturday, August 13, 2022
When you understand the nature of the body-mind complex, you will realize your true essence. It is enough if you develop the conviction that you and the divine are one - "Aham Brahmasmi." Cultivate steadfast faith in this divine oneness through love. That love will lead you to Self-realization.
Friday, August 12, 2022
We say the proper study of mankind is man. The head, heart, and hands should cooperate and function in harmony. There is no human value greater than this.
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Do not allow your mind to vacillate between good and bad, between unity and multiplicity. Focus it on all that is good and realize the principle of unity. That is the royal road that will lead you to the experience of truth.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Once you direct the mind toward the Atma, you have learned the supreme mantra: "Aham Brahmasmi" (I am Brahman). Whatever you do, eating, walking, seeing, or speaking, do it with Atmic consciousness.
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
When one is strongly established in love, that person qualifies for mergence with the divine, to become one with the divine.
Monday, August 8, 2022
Without the individual realizing one’s true nature, all other accomplishments are of no avail. One must turn the mind inwards. Turning the mind toward the external world can only breed sorrow. Enduring bliss can be achieved only by directing the mind toward God. That is real sadhana (spiritual practice).
Sunday, August 7, 2022
There are two "I's" in everyone - the "I" that is associated with the mind and the "I" associated with the Atma. The consciousness of the Atma is the real "I." When this "I" is wrongly associated with the mind, it becomes the ego (ahamkara). When the "I" associated with the Atma experiences Atmic bliss, it realizes that the universal consciousness is one, though it may be called by different names.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
In this world, which is impermanent and ever-changing, the immanent power of the Lord is the only permanent and fixed entity. Therefore, to realize the eternal and the true, it is necessary to attach oneself to that source and sustenance.
Friday, August 5, 2022
Develop the unshakable conviction that the divine is present in everyone. Then there will be no room for developing differences of any kind. Conflict and disorder will have no place. Likes and dislikes will go.
Thursday, August 4, 2022
There is no need to search for the Atma when it is omnipresent. The Atma shines eternally. No other sadhana (spiritual practice) is required to recognize it. As long as one is not aware of one’s own true nature, one will be under the delusion that the Atma is somewhere else remote from oneself. Like the ashes hiding the fire in burning charcoal, the delusion regarding the body is covering the Atma. Once the delusion goes, one will experience true bliss and understand cosmic reality.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
The body, the mind, and the senses are merely like the husk which encases the grain. When the husk is removed, the rice alone remains. As long as one is enveloped in this husk, one cannot escape birth and death. When the husk (in the form of the five sheaths) is cast off, one is freed from rebirth, just as rice without the husk cannot sprout.
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
The waves appearing in an ocean appear different from each other. But they consist of the same water. So likewise, though one appears in innumerable forms, all these are like waves appearing on the ocean of being-awareness-bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda). Names and forms may be different, but the basis is the same.
Monday, August 1, 2022
While meditating, first imagine and feel that you are in the light, then, gradually, you can feel the light is in you, not outside you; and finally, you will realize the truth that you and the light are one and will ever be one.
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Those who seek the highest path and who revel in thoughts of God should strive to read only the life histories of saints and sages and books that help the contemplation of the Divine. Aimless reading of books all and sundry, whatever comes to hand, will make confusion only worse confounded. It gives no profit, it confers no peace.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
If the match-stick is soaked in water, how can it ignite when struck? If the mind is soaked in worldly desires, how can it be ignited into spiritual endeavour? If the Divine Love (Prema) with which you are endowed is confined to the world, it will be absorbed up soon, by the sands of envy greed and malice. The Divine Love (Prema) must be directed towards God, then only can it expand, grow, deepen, fertilize all your actions, benefit all those around you.
Friday, July 29, 2022
Wherever you may be and whatever you do, regard yourselves as instruments of the Divine and act on that basis. You need not wait for a whole year to observe Gurupoornima. Treat every moment of your life as being intended for dedication to the Lord. This is the way to experience the Divine all the time at all places. This is true Sakshatkara (vison of the Divine).
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Live with prema (love), in prema, for prema. Then the Lord who is Divine Love personified (Premaswaruupa) will grant you all that you need in spite of your not asking for anything. He knows, He is the Mother who does not wait to hear the moan of the child to feed. His prema is so vast and deep, He anticipates every need and rushes with help you must have.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
The spark of Love in you has to be cherished and fed so that it may reach God. Then, every being will be God, every act will be Divine, and every reaction you get from the outside world will be charged with Prema and sweetened with that nectar. You love the God in all beings and the God in all beings responds with love.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Serve all and love all. Firmly believe that the Divine is in everyone and constantly act on this belief. Only by continuous practice you can develop this sacred attitude. Fill yourself with self-confidence and courage. Make your life a complete offering to the Divine, who is the real source of all that you are and all that you have.
Monday, July 25, 2022
When man realizes that there is God who is the basis of all this superstructure, who has designed and contrived all this and he surrenders his ego to Him. "Let Your will prevail," he proclaims and resigns himself fully to His plan. That moment is a supreme moment of joy and Bliss.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Purity of the heart is more important than all rituals and penances. Develop a vision that will broaden your heart and enable you to help others and not hurt them. Dedicate all actions to God. Sacrifice (Thyaga) is real oneness with the Divine (Yoga). To enjoy things (Bhoga) without sharing with others is a disease (Roga). The Vedas have declared that immortality can be attained only through sacrifice and not by any other means.
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Everyone should have faith in the Divine. Faith is essential for anyone, whether, he is a theist or an atheist. People may judge things as good or bad according to their own predilections. But for God, all things are the same. In this world, nothing will appear bad if one views it from the Divine point of view. Seen from the worldly point of view, there will be differences between good and bad.