Guides by Swami to new members

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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/discourses/d1958/d19581220-1.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