Thirty-Six Gems for You

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SPEAKING at Prashanthi Nilayam on 21 October 1961, announcement was made by Baba

to the World that He has entered upon the Divine Minion. He has come down for as

Man, in this Yuga, to revive Dharma, establish Peace and fill the whole world

with Love so that all may now reach the goal anxiously striven for by them in

the aeons that have gone by!The following were offered by Baba as the

Thirty-sixth Birthday Message:

Rectitude (Morality) is the royal road to the seat of God

He who conquers the world is a hero; but the hero of heros is he who conquers

himself; he is mighty; he has powers beyond compare.

Faith is the first step to the Grace of God

Truth will lead you to the deity; Untruth will lead you to the devil

The aspirant must bear with patience all circumstances; that is the most beneficial path

Fill every deed of yours with the vision of the spirit, the outlook of the super-self

To grasp the significance of the Omnipresence of the Lord, believe that there is

no name which is not His, so body or thing which is not His

He who is steady in wisdom stands closest in the company of the lord.

Release from bondage to inborn impulses is the real liberation.

When a person has renounced the fruit, whatever activity he engages in, that is

samaadhi (the last stage of yoga) itself.

When you try something above your capacity, that is conceit

When you do something less than your capacity, remember, that is theft.

Full happiness consists of auspicious conversation, auspicious thoughts, and auspicious deeds.

Recognize and accept your own faults and errors; do not attempt to unveil others

faults and errors; this discipline helps the aspirant a great deal.

Cool comforting conversation, that is most congenial to the aspirant, is the

habit that will take him to the goal.

Whose property did the crow steal? Whom did the kokil (cuckoo) crown?

Understand this: if your tongue is sweet your name gets honored.

Achieve mastery over your tongue; you achieve thereby mastery over the world.

He who obeys the dictates of the lord is indeed at ease, he is a Yogi; he who

disobeys the dictates of the lord he is the dis-eased, the rogi.

When heart is bound to heart, heat of argument finds no place.

Impure food makes the mind also impure the sun of the inner glory of dharma can

never down with the impure mind.

If you give up the contemplation of the lord who is the treasure of

undiminishing bliss and spend yourselves in the contemplation of the means of

achieving the victory of the promptings of your heart, you can never get

released.

If you drop the weight of argument and unfold the twin wings of faith and action

you can float and fly happily in the deep blue sky of almighty presence.

The craving for fruit will render all spiritual discipline fruitless.

Let the mind die, let buddhi (intellect) be destroyed, the let the body

disintegrate, remember nothing can harm you, the indestructible Aathma.

Use a little common sense and you will know that the body is not your own self;

it is liable to decline and death; that is the first step for nara (man) to

become Narayana (God). The I to which reference is made is not the body, it is

the Paramaathma (supreme Self); trying to realize this is thapas (penance).

Where the singing of the name of the lord fills the air with its splendor and

fragrance that place in deed is vaikuntha (the abode of Vishnu).

While the skin of cattle is useful for making footwear, the human skin is not

worth a speak of dust. But yet that very man can ascend to the height of

divinity if only he carries out his holy task.

The world must be made the abode of love; first cultivate love; later, spread

the love to the district and thus let it cover the entire world.

Whatever you feel is good if done by others to you however you feel they should

honor you do unto those other also and honor them likewise yourselves.

When you do not know confess that you do not know if you pretend to know and try

to cover up ignorance, it is very dangerous, especially to the spiritual

aspirant.

The idea of Brahman is beyond the capacity of those who have no control over the

agitations of the mind; the natural afflictions of the causative world will

cease only when the idea of Brahman is well established in the mind; the

delusion of the causative world must disappear if one must get the joy, aathmic

bliss.

However great a hero you might be whatever your prowess and intellect devoid of

the grace of god you degenerate into a slave.

Whoever loves and serves all him the lord loves and honors.

The birds taking shelter for the night awake and fly away to the four quarters

at sunrise; so too, the wife and children, the fortune and wealth, all fly away

without as much as even a farewell notice. Establish yourselves firmly in this

fact; make immediate efforts to achieve the eternal, the permanent, the

unchanging.

Of what use is all the poring over tomes throughout the day and night of what

use is all the fame achieved by means of scholarship? What you have put into

practice that is the measure of your learning, your education. Without that,

you are but a learned, titled fool.

Strive for the happiness, the joy of all others, as earnestly as you strive for

your own; strive for the peace of the word, as diligently as you strive for

your own. That is true divinity that is true humanity.

If there are two or more kings or states, there is bound to be greed, envy,

jealously, hatred and anger on one side, and fear, ambition and vengeance on

the other. No one can then know the joy or perfect peace. Similarly, so long as

you feel the reality of the 'many,' so long as you take them to be outside you,

separate from you, you have fear, hatred, greed and all the rest of the pests.

When you know that the ‘many’ is a figment superimposed on the One, by your own

ignorance, you become Master, sole Monarch, and all fear vanishes. That stage is

Mukti: Liberation from the thralldom of Samsara---worldly life. - Sathya Sai

Baba

Source: SATHYA SAI SPEAKS - Volume II [Ch. 24]

 

Perform selfless service to the poor, the sick, and the needy without thought of

reward or fame. Love all Serve

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