Guides by Swami to new members

08-10-2004, 11:04 AM

Light and Love

Sai Ram to all new members of 'saibabanews' forum of Sai followers and devotees.
Let's Swami's Divine energy and power of His words inspire you through all
your life.
Below is a short compilation from Swami`s Discourse: Sathya Sai Baba.
"Education and Peace". 20 December 1958, Thiruvananthapuram. Also:
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/...9581220-1.html
Here Swami gives an answer what is the very first step to whatsoever kind
education. Take part in the 'saibabanews' work is near to take part of a
virtual study circle where all have their role to perform. Different
directions, different topics and different approaches create a certain unity
connected with Swami in diverse forms. "The mind is the wind that brings to
us the smell, foul or fragrant, of the world. When the mind turns to the foul,
it makes you disgusted; when it turns towards the fragrant, you are made happy.
The wind gathers the clouds from the four quarters; similarly the mind brings
into your consciousness the disappointments of many hopes. Again, it is the
mind that, like the wind, scatters the clouds that darken it or make it feel
lost in the night of doubt. Control the mind and you remain unruffled. That is
the secret of Shaanthi; that is the education that man must first claim and
secure.

To gain this equanimity, you have to do not reading, but systematic
Saadhana (spiritual effort). Then, you can be happy whether you are rich or
poor, appreciated or rejected, prosperous or unlucky. That is an armour without
which it is foolish to enter the arena of life. So, enter upon the path of
spiritual discipline now itself. Direct the mind towards its own working,
examine it and train it to restricts itself to good company, good thoughts and
good deeds. Practise meditation on any form of the Lord and repeat, with the
awareness of the sweetness, any name of the Lord. That will teach the mind to
be sharp and produce good music out of the joys as well as the griefs that are
incidental to life. Life is a pilgrimage to God. The road lies before you;
but unless you take the first step forward and follow that step with others, how
can you reach it? Start with courage, faith, joy, and steadiness. You are bound
to succeed. Like underground water, the divine is there, in every one,
remember. He is in you as much as in every one else. He is not more in a rich
being or bigger in a fat being; His spark illumines the cave of the heart of
every one. The sun shines equally on all; His grace is falling equally on all.
It is only you that erect obstacles that prevent the rays of His grace from
warming you."

Namaste - Reet