Sathya Sai Speaks

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Sathya Sai Speaks

 

You can experience Bliss only when you have learnt to control the

Mind. To control the Mind, you have to engage in good deeds. As you

go on performing good deeds, you will develop good thoughts and

feelings; and when you have good thoughts, you will acquire true

understanding of the Real.

 

Sanctify the time given to you with good thoughts and good actions.

To achieve this, you have to cultivate the company of the good, and

all of this, in due course, would lead to liberation. Filling your

mind with thoughts of God and engaging in good actions is true

Sadhana.

 

People claim to spend hours in meditation. But of what use is it if

there is no concentration of the Mind? Far better it is to render

social service or participate in Bhajans, and through such means

subject the Mind to some discipline. This also is how work gets

transformed into worship. When you dedicate all your thoughts and

actions to God, your actions automatically get purified.

 

You can experience God through the performance of your duties and

proper actions. The Bhagavad Gita says that the Kshetra (namely the

body) and the Kshetrajna (namely the Atma) together constitute the

human personality. Similarly, the scriptures refer to the human body

as the temple and the Indwelling Spirit as the God residing in that

temple. Even a mere intellectual understanding of this fact is enough

to make you happy. But you would be happier still, when you put this

understanding into practice in your daily life. You should try to

seek continuous satisfaction and fulfilment by basing even your

mundane activities on spiritual values. Whatever be the activity with

which you are preoccupied in Society, you must be steadfast in

holding on to the spiritual ideal. This alone will bestow lasting

peace.

 

The sense organs should be sanctified by offering all the actions

performed through them to God. You can surely achieve that sanctified

state, provided you have strong determination. Unfortunately, man

does not evince such a firm determination and tenacity of purpose in

respect of spiritual matters, as he does for the sake of mundane

things. Man is prepared to make any amount of effort to undertake a

journey of millions of miles into outer space, but he hardly ever

endeavours to go even an inch within, towards his Inner Self. What is

the use of intelligence and worldly acquisitions when they cannot

give Atma Shanthi (the untrammelled peace of the Atma or the Spirit)?

God alone can confer such enduring peace on man.

 

As far as possible, avoid causing harm or pain to others. As you sow,

so you reap. Whenever you feel disturbed by a sense of anger, envy,

pride, jealousy and the like, become alert and resort to the

contemplation of the Lord.

 

EXCERPTS FROM A DISCOURSE OF SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan