Thought for the Day - 24th November 2005

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go in quest of God. Infact, it is God who is in search of a genuine and

steadfast devotee. Today's Sadhaka (spiritual aspirant) is approaching God for

the fulfilment of his petty desires. He does not seek to understand the nature

of true love or the Divinity that underlies everything. He proves himself to be

a self-deluded being with no moral commitment. Just as the sun can be seen only

by its own light, the love of the Divine can be acquired only by Divine Grace

and not by pursuing some trivial practices. These Sadhanas (spiritual

practices) are invariably motivated by selfish objectives. There is an element

of selfishness in every act of service which man undertakes; it is tainted by

egoism or the acquisitive urge. Only when the Sadhaka's heart is filled with

the Divine, will he be able to entertain pure and sacred love.- Baba Thought

for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam today24th November 2005

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MAD PURSUIT of "MONEY"! Money is actually not the root of all evil, per se.

It is the LOVE for MONEY ...which is the most destructive and leads us away to

repeated birth-death cycles as Swami has also told us in his earlier

discourses. I quote :

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"Fill your hearts with compassion and serve the poor and needy. Don't be

stone-hearted and money-minded. When the hour of reckoning comes, will you be

able to carry with you the wealth you have amassed? No. Serve the poor with

love. That alone can redeem you. Service to the poor is

service to God. Sacrifice your life for the cause of the poor." From Sri

Sathya Sai Baba's Discourse on the inauguration of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of

Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS) at Whitefield, Bangalore on 19th January,

2001

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And i sincerely feel that ... money does not corrupt someone. If they are

virtiuous they will not be corrupt inspite of the money. If they are not

virtuous they will fall to some other vice, even if it's not money. Money

cannot directly by happiness. But it is necessary to sustain us. So the more

well sustained we are, the less we worry, and that is our true motiviation, not

the money itsself. We crave the things that go with money, but we do not crave

money as an object- at least

not most of us. It is basically the 'deeds' ... that money inspires. If you

desire it to feed yourself, or your family, that is not selfish. But how far

would you go for a lot of money? Would you sell your child for a billion

dollars? Would you kill someone for money, no matter how much? Would you

sacrifice your morals, your believes in the name of money? It is not a knock

on the object of money, but a comment on the struggle between the material and

the immaterial. Between love and cold hard cash. Between virtues and wealth.

Between the things that money can't buy, and all the things that it can. Ram

RAM RAM

Thank you & God bless.

Om Sri Sai Ram

Sarvathah paanipaadam Tat sarvatokshi siromukham Sarvathah sruthimalloke Sarvamavritya thishthathi