Satya Sai Baba

[Guest guest]

Broaden your vision. Cultivate the spirit of love. Being endowed with

the human form, you must strive to develop human values and not stray

away from the path of righteousness. Fill your minds with sublime

thoughts, and your hearts with divine feelings. Consider everyone as

your brother and sister. Only then will you realize your unity with

all creation. Redeem your lives by revering your parents, honouring

your teachers and developing loving faith in God. Be aware of the

divinity that is inherent in every being. Thereby, you will grow in

self-esteem. Fill your life with joy. Be happy and make others happy.

This will please God.

 

 

With faith in the omnipresence of the Divine, man should engage

himself in good deeds, cherish good thoughts and dedicate his life to

good practices. His words should be words of truth. The ornaments he

should wear are the necklace of truthful speech, the earrings of

listening to sacred lore and the bracelet of charity. Money is of the

nature of manure. Piled up in one place, it pollutes the air. Spread

it wide, scatter it over fields, it rewards you with a bumper harvest.

So too, when money is spent for promoting good works, it yields

contentment and happiness in plenty.

 

 

Do not tarry on your journey to God. You fill up the petrol tank with fuel for

the journey that lies ahead, is it not? When you propose to keep the car in the

garage for long, you do not fill the tank. Well, the body too is fed with fuel

so that it may go on a journey - journey to God. That journey is through karma

(action), good and selfless action...The correct discipline to acquire this

selfless (nishkaama)attitude is dedication; and dedication is possible only when

you have intense faith in God. That faith becomes steady through spiritual

effort.

 

 

Chant the name of the Lord with full faith and pure heart. You forget your

nature in the complex tangle of artificiality; you miss the sahaja (natural)

when you are caught in the net of a-sahaja (artificial). The natural is prema

(Love), shaanthi (Peace), sathya (Truth) and aanandha (Bliss). The artificial is

hate, falsehood, war, grief and greed. You must discover the spring of your own

truth; you cannot play truant for long; after many a birth, even if their number

is a hundred, you have to reach the source from where you strayed...If you

strengthen your moral qualities, and develop faith in God, calamity can never

visit you.