SATHYA SAI SPEAKS - Volume II [Ch. 23, 24, 25, 26]

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SATHYA SAI SPEAKS - Volume II [Ch. 23, 24, 25, 26]

23. PRIMERS OF SPIRITUAL EDUCATION

THESE discourses have now become a daily event and so, perhaps, you may be

developing a headache. A feast should come only rarely;' it should not be

frequent. If it is a daily affair, it loses its charm, its savor. If I speak to

you every evening, at the end of the speeches by others, even though you may all

like it, still I am afraid it may add up to a big burden. Mitha (moderation) is

desirable in food and. drinks and in exercise, both physical and spiritual;

that is the best Hitha (cure); then only can you advance in Gathi (position).

However, as regards God, there is no question of over dose or under dose; any

dose should be welcomed. But I do not recommend such mixtures as

Thirumalaachaar administered to you now! His speech was full of the family

affairs of Gods, their family quarrels and family problems. When even the

Bhakta (devotee) should get over the likes and dislikes of kith and kin in

order to deserve the Grace of God, how can any one talk of the Gods themselves

being entangled in these low knots? These only drag Divinity down to the dirt

of you sensory minds. The only kith and kin the Lord has are the devotees who

have dedicated themselves to Him; those who have attuned their heartstrings to

His Melody. To ascribe the material relationships of the human family to

Godhead is sheer nonsense. The Lord who is beyond Time and Space prior to the

Beginning and subsequent to

the end can never be described in terms of the mushroom memories of man, the

temporary phenomena of human family and human society. Such descriptions cannot

make any sense to those who have experienced the Glory that is God.

Do not make God modem to suit your fancy. He is neither ancient nor modern; His

countenance never changes, nor His Glory. Present Him if you must in a modem

manner, in a modem style, so that He might be understood today. If a child is

reluctant to swallow a pill, insert it in a plantain and offer him the fruit;

he will swallow both fruit and pill. But do not change the pill itself to suit

the whims and fancies of the child's taste. Then the illness cannot be cured!

Come with empty hands to carry away my Love

Take the Lord to be your father or mother, but only as a first step to your

overstepping that relationship and merging in the absolute. Do not stop on the

steps; enter the Mansion to which they lead. The Aathmasambandha (connection

with the Soul) is the-everlasting unchanging sambandha (association). As a

first step, you use the flower, the lamp, the incense, etc., to worship the

Saguna (attributable) form. Soon, your Bhakti moves on to newer forms of

dedication, newer offerings, purer and more valuable and worthier of your Lord.

No one sticks to the slate for long; you feel that you should place before the

Lord something more lasting than mere flowers; and something more yours than

incense. You feel like purifying yourselves and making your entire life one

fragrant flame. That is real worship, real Bhakti. Do not

come to Me with your hands full of trash, for how can I fill them with Grace

when they are already full? Come with empty hands and carry away My treasure,

My Prema.

Human impulses and emotions have to be guided

Those who get their feet worshipped by their devotees and those who think that

it is a great boon so to worship them are both lacking in sense. Paadhapuuja

(ritual worship of Guru's feet) has an atmosphere of publicity, both for the

Guru and the sishya; besides, why worship the body, which is decaying every

moment? It is also very wrong to offer cash or gold or other articles, whether

they are from surplus wealth or from hard-earned property. For, after all, even

these are trinkets that have no intrinsic value. Obey the Guru, follow his

instructions, progress along the spiritual road, these are the best means of

Paadhapuuja; when you achieve some success in these, the craving for

Paadhapuuja itself will disappear, must disappear. Nowadays, people who feel it

is a cheap substitute for sincere devotion that

the guru too welcomes and prefers do the Pooja! Offer the heart, clean and pure,

broadened by Sadhana to include all living beings in its grasp. Offer this to

the guru and seek only such gurus as do not indulge in declamations about

themselves or in derisive attacks on their rivals.

Worship is just a means of educating the emotions. Human impulses and emotions

have to be guided and controlled. Just as the raging waters of the Godavari

have to be curbed by bunds, halted by dams, tamed by canals and led quietly to

the ocean, which can swallow all floods without a trace, so too the age long

instincts of man have to be trained and transmuted by contact with higher

ideals and powers.

When the fruit is ripe, it will fall off the branch of its own accord.

Similarly, when Vairagya (renunciation) saturates your heart, you lose contact

with the world and slip into the lap of the Lord.

Three types of appeases towards the Lord

There are three types of approaches towards the Lord: the Eagle type, which

swaps down on the target with a greedy swiftness and suddenness which, by its

very impact, fails to secure the object coveted; the Monkey type, which flits

hither and thither, from one fruit to another, unable to decide which is tasty;

and the Ant type, which moves steadily, though slowly, towards the object which

it has decided is desirable. The ant does not hit the fruit hard and make it

fall away; it does not pluck all the fruits it sees; it appropriates just as

much as it can assimilate and no more. Do not fritter away the time allotted to

you for sojourning on each in foolish foppery and fanciful foibles, which always

keep you, outdid. When are you to walk indoors into the warmth and quiet of your

own interior? Retire into solitude and silence now and then; experience the

joy derivable only from them.

Since you cannot swim across the flooded stream, you board a raft. So also,

since you cannot master the Nirguna (Formless), you resort to the Saguna (Form

with attributes) and struggle to swim across to the Nirguna through Araadhana

and Upasana (worship and contemplation). But it is not advisable to remain ever

on the raft, amidst the currents and whirlpools, is it not? You must die this

conventional Araadhana some day and reach higher. Pathram, pushpam, phalam,

thoyam (leaf, flower, fruit, water)---are all primers for the initial stages

when children join schools. Clean the mind of all the animal and primitive

impulses, which has shaped it from birth to birth. Otherwise, just as milk

poured into a pot used for keeping buttermilk curdles quickly, all the finer

experiences of truth, beauty and goodness will

get tarnished beyond recognition. Do not postpone this duty to yourself,

especially now when you have the chance of contacting Me. I do not find you

offering Me the thing I look for; you bring things which are unworthy and

impure. I feel very much when I find you so agitated and troubled with the cure

so near at hand.

Reduce your wants; minimize your desires. All these material knick-knacks are

short-lived. When death deprives you of resistance, your kith and kin take off

the nose-stud and in their haste they may even cut the nose to retrieve it! If

you go on heaping desire upon desire, it will be impossible to depart gladly

when the call comes. Become rich rather in virtue, in the spirit of service, in

devotion to the Higher Power. That is what pleases Me and saves you.

Prashanthi Nilayam, 26-10-1961

Pleasure is the Head; pain is the Fool You cannot welcome pleasure without at

the same time inviting Pain. They are both always together, in separable.

Understanding this live always in peace. - Sathya Sai Baba

24. THIRTY-SIX GEMS FOR YOU

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:

1. Rectitude is the Royal Road to the Seat of God.

2. He who conquers the world is a hero; but the hero of heroes is he who

conquers himself; he is mighty; he has prowess beyond compare.

3. Faith is the first step to the Grace of God.

4. Truth will lead you to the Deity untruth will lead you to the devil.

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

6. Fill every deed of yours with the vision of the Spirit, the outlook of the Super-self.

7. To grasp the significance of the Omnipresence of the Lord, believe that there

is no name, which is not His; no body, or thing, which is not His.

8. He who is steady in Wisdom stands closest in the company of the Lord.

9. Release from bondage to inborn impulses is the Real Liberation.

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

is Samadhi (the last stage of yoga) itself.

11. When you try something above your capacity that is conceit.

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

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

14. Recognise and accept your own faults and errors; do not attempt to unveil

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

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

habit that will take him to the goal.

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

Understand this: if your tongue is sweet, your name gets honoured.

17. Achieve mastery over your tongue, you achieve thereby mastery over the world.

18. 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 diseased, the Rogi.

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

20. Impure food makes the mind also, impure; the Sun of the inner glory of

dharma can never dawn within the impure Mind.

21. 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.

22. 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 the Almighty

Presence.

23. The craving for fruit will render all spiritual discipline fruitless.

24. Let the mind die, let Buddhi (intellect) be destroyed, let the body

disintegrate; remember nothing can harm you, the indestructible Atma.

25. 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 Paramatma (Supreme Self); trying to realise this is thapas (penance).

26. Where the singing of the Name of the Lord fills the air with its splendor

and fragrance that place indeed is Vaikunda (the abode of Vishnu).

27. While the skin of cattle is useful for making footwear, the human skin is

not worth a speck of dust. But yet, that very man can ascend to the height of

dignity if only he caries out his holy task.

28. The world must be made the abode of love; first, cultivate love for

yourself; then, fill the village, where you are with love; later, spread the

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

29. Whatever you feel is good if done by others to you, however you feel they

should honour you; do unto those others also and honour them likewise

yourselves.

30. When you do not know, confess that you do not know; if you pretend to know

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

aspirant.

31. 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, Atmic

Bliss.

32. However great a hero you might be, whatever your prowess and intellect,

devoid of the Grace of God, you degenerate into a slave.

33. Whoever loves and serves all, him, the Lord loves and honors.

34. 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.

35. 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.

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

for your own; strive for the peace of the world, 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

25. BIRTHDAY SPARKS

THIS day, the 23rd November 1961 is significant in more senses than one; it is

not only the day which marks the date of birth of this Avatar; the previous Sai

Avatars was also inaugurated on a Thursday, and on the day after the Karthik

Deepam or Karthik Pournami (the full moon day of the month of Karthik). Today

also it is the day after the Karthik Deepam and a Thursday!

You are all lucky that you could come to Prashanthi Nilayam from great distances

and have Darshan (audience), on this auspicious day. But, the joy you get today

is only a reminder of the eternal full joy that is in store for you, in fact,

for all mankind. That joy is your birthright; this momentary bliss is but a

drop of that ocean; to get that, you must dedicate yourself to Sadhana,

continuous and conscious Sadhana (spiritual practice). The symbol on the

Prashanthi Flag, the symbol that is put up in concrete form in front of the

Nilayam, has therefore to be clearly understood by every one of you. Conquer

lug, anger and hatred, roam in the expanse of equal and impartial Love to all

created things and then, you are fit for yoga (inner communion with Divinity),

which will open the petals of your heart. Then, from the fragrance

and beauty of that Lotus will emerge the Flame of Jnaana (spiritual wisdom),

illumining Maya (world illusion) into destruction until you and the Jyothi

(Flame) become One.

It is when you approach near that it appears in all its majesty, in all its

overwhelming size. Suppose you see it small, what does that indicate? Not that

it is small, but that you are afar! Remember. The Sun and the Moon appear huge,

huger by far than the stars, for they are near and the stars are far. Approach

the Lord and realise Him as Big; do not stand afar, and prate that He is small!

You are all entitled to joy that is eternal

Incarnation is for the sake of fostering, dharma, for demarcating and directing

it and to show mankind the true path of desireless activity. That is the one

task I am engaged in, through various channels. Instead of reforming you

without your knowledge, it is better to reform you with your own co-operation

and knowledge. So, I reveal to you my Glory, off and on, to a little extent,

through what you call miracles. I do not engage in them for name and fame; I am

miraculous by My very Nature! Every moment of Mine is a Mahaathmya, a Miracle!

They are beyond your understanding your art and skill and intelligence. I must

save every one of you; even if you say, nay, and move away, I shall do it.

Those who have strayed away from Me have to return to the fold,

sooner or later, for I will not allow them to be distant for long I shall drag

them towards Me. That is My basic Nature, Love and Mercy.

Today, at this meeting, as members of this gathering you are all overwhelmed

with joy, I can see that But, this is momentary, this will not last. You are

all entitled to broader realms of joy, deeper springs of joy and joy that is

eternal. Your real dharma, the purpose for which you have taken human birth, is

to earn and enjoy that Bliss, which no external contact can change or diminish.

To earn it, is quite easy; it can be done by every one, who just sits calmly and

examines himself and his mind, unaffected by likes and dislikes. Then he

discovers that life is a dream, and that he has a calm refuge of peace inside

his own heart. He learns to dive into its cool depths forgetting and ignoring

the buffets of luck, both good and ill.

If time is well used a paamara can become Paramahamsa

The doctor first diagnoses the disease and then, he prescribes the course of

treatment. So too, you must submit yourself to the diagnosis of your illness,

viz, misery, travail and pain. Investigate fearlessly and with care; and you

will find that while your basic nature is Bliss (Ananda), you have falsely

identified yourself with the temporary, the frivolous and the paltry and so,

that attachment brings about all the sorrow. You have to realise that both joy

and sorrow are passing phases, like white or dark clouds across the blue sky,

and you have to learn to treat both prosperity and adversity with equanimity.

If only time is well used, the paamara (the ignorant) can become the Paramahamsa

(ascetic of the highest order) and the Paramahamsa can also be transfused into

Paramatma (the Universal Substance and Substratum.).

Just as fish which can live only when it is immersed in water, when it feels the

element all around it, so too man is an animal that can live only when immersed

in Ananda; (bliss) he must have Ananda not only at home, in society and in the

world but, more than all, in the heart. As a matter of fact, the Ananda in the

heart produces Ananda everywhere; the heart is the spring of joy. That spring

has to be touched by constant meditation, recitation and the intermittent

dwelling on the glory, the grace and the inexhaustible manifestations of the

Lord: smarana, chethana and manana. Hold fast to the goal; the Bhakta (devotee)

should never turn back. Never give way to doubt or despair.

Pray, as the performance of a duty

A person driving a car concentrates on the road, for he is anxious to save

himself and others from accident. Fear is what induces single-mindedness in his

case. Love is a greater force for giving concentration. If you have steady and

resolute love, the concentration becomes intense and unshakeable. Faith

develops into love and love results in concentration. Prayer is possible and

begins to yield fruit, under such conditions. Pray, using the Name as a symbol

of the Lord; pray keeping all the waves of the mind stilled. Pray, as the

performance of a duty for your very real existence, as the only justification

for your coming into the world, as man.

"Mine" and "yours:" these attitudes are only for identification; they are not

real; they are temporary. "His"---that is the truth, the eternal. It is like

the headmaster of a school being in temporary charge of the furniture of the

school. He has to hand over the items when he is transferred or retired. Treat

all things with which you are endowed, as the headmaster treats the furniture.

Be always aware that the final checking-up is imminent. Wait for that moment

with joy. Be ready for that event. Have your accounts up to date and the

balance ready calculated to be handed over. Treat all things entrusted to you

with care and diligence.

Narayana is the Lord of the Water; (naaram means water). But, what is the water

of which He is the Lord? He resides in the heart, and His presence when

recognized melts even the stoniest heart and the water emanates from the eye as

tears of joy, gratitude and fullness! His Presence is said to have been

recognized by man, when he is suffused by sympathy, making him sad while

another is sad and joyful when another is filled with joy. Narayana is He who

brings tears of joy to the eyes! That is the function of your tear glands: to

express internal joy; not to weep like a fool or a coward.

Prashanthi Nilayam, Birthday Discourse, 23-11-1961

The person devoid to God knows to failure. The Name of the Lord, if taken

sincerely, overcomes all obstacles. It is saturated with sweetness; it has to

iota of the bitterness of defeat in it. When the Savor is by your side, why

doubt whether you will be saved? - Sathya Sai Baba

26. DESTINY IS NO IRON CAGE

VELURY Shivaraama Shastri is not only a great scholar, he is a Sadhak too.

Today, he gave you the gist of his scholarship and experience in the speech on

Avatar rahasya (Secret of Incarnation). In spite of all this, let Me tell you,

the Mystery of Avatars is beyond your understanding, beyond any one's

understanding. How can those in Maya grasp something that is beyond it? The

body, Buddhi, chiththa, manas, hrudhaya (intellect, thought, mind, heart)---all

are in Maya (illusion) and operate only through Maya. But the disappearance of

Maya is a fact, not a delusion. In algebra the symbol X is used for the unknown

quantity. When its identity is discovered, as it eventually is, the symbol X

disappears from the equation. In the same way, God is X, the entity you have to

discover.

To say that God is the prime cause of everything is true to a certain extent;

but he does not thrust you into an iron cage of destiny from which there is no

escape. He has endowed you with Viveka and Vairagya (discrimination and

detachment) and, with a sense of awe and wonder, you have to use these for

attaining Him. Though bound, you are not entirely incapacitated. A cow that is

tethered to a post by means of a rope can walk around it and graze on all the

area which the rope can traverse; when all the grass therein has been eaten,

perhaps the master might loosen the knot and tether it to another post a little

farther off. Graze freely as far as the rope allows, but do not stray far from

the post and pull at the rope and inflict pain on your neck.

Do not blame Fate for your condition

On the land that belongs to you, you can grow the food you need or you can sit

idle and allow it to lie fallow. You are the cause of your ruin or uplift. The

tools are in your hands; you can learn the skills; you can break the shackles

and escape; but if you grovel in slavery and bondage, who can save you? Do not

blame Fate or siro-likhitham (writing on the head), for your condition. The

likhitham (writing) has been done by you yourself. You fail or pass and you are

detained or promoted on the basis of your performance in the previous class, is

it not? So also, the status in the present life is decided on the basis of the

activities in previous lives.

When the Headmaster gives a character certificate on the basis of which you

apply for a job, he flames the sentences with reference to your conduct in

previous years when you were in previous classes. You are responsible for the

nature of the certificate; if your conduct was good, you get a good certificate

and a good job; if it had been bad, you get a bad one and a poor job. It is you

who write, you who wipe the writing on the head, or "destiny."

There was a great saint in Kerala some 500 years ago, Bilvamangala by name. He

would call on Krishna and Krishna would appear. Such was his Bhakti and his

Sadhana. One man who suffered from chronic stomachache heard about this and he

pestered Bilvamangala to find out from Krishna whether it would end or not.

Bilvamangala agreed and when Krishna appeared next, he asked him the question.

Krishna replied, "When the rolling stops, it will cease." The unfortunate man

interpreted it to mean "when he stopped rolling in pain" and he got desperate,

because he had perforce to roll in the agony of that ache. So he left Kerala

and wanted to go to some holy place to meet some holier person who would

procure for him a more satisfying answer. Bilvamangala told him that he had to

suffer this trouble due to his Prarabhda---the result of his

activities in previous births. He took rolling to mean, "rolling from birth to birth."

Prarabhda will melt when Namasmarana is done

On the road to Kasi which he took, he came to a free feeding 'place run by a

pious lady, Kururamma by name. When she saw his agony, she spoke to him kindly.

He told her that he had decided to drown himself in the Ganga for he was told

there was no escaping the consequence of past sins. Kururamma called him a

fool. She gave him the holy mantra, "Gopeejana Vallabhaaya namah," and asked

him to repeat it. She said the Name would cure him completely. The poor man

uttered it when the attack occurred next and he was surprised to find that the

pain had gone! Yes, gone; even though he pounded his stomach, it did not

return.

He finished his pilgrimage to Kasi and returned to Kerala and fell at the feet

of Bilvamangala, who enquired about his ache; the ache with which he had to

live for it was earned in past lives. When he was told that it had disappeared,

he called on Krishna and asked what he had meant by "rolling." Bilvamangala

thought it to mean rolling from one birth to another and acquiring good and

evil; the sick man took it to mean 'rolling in pain' when the ache came on. But

Krishna had meant rolling in this objective world, this Prakriti, and its

changing phenomena. When the man lived in the name of God and had no other

thought, the rolling had ceased; the Name and the chain of destiny cannot exist

together. Prarabhda (result of past bad action) will melt away like fog before

the Sun when Namasmarana is done. This was a revelation even for

Bilvamangala.

You become that which you feel

Just reflect on this for a minute: How did man forget his Divinity? How did he

fall into this delusion of littleness? Then you will know that it must be as a

result of the mind running after momentary pleasures. What then is the remedy?

The answer is just one word---"Worship." Do everything as worship. Yath bhaavam

thath bhavathi---"You become that which you feel." You can get the feeling for

the Divine only if you have a taste of the Prema of the Divine. That is why the

Avatars has come to give you a taste of that Prema, so that the yearning for the

Lord will be planted in your heart. Man has attained mastery over mountains of

information now; but wisdom has lagged behind. Hence, man's capacity to probe

and progress into the realm of the Universal and the Absolute has to be

developed.

Vivekananda had gone once to a town during his wanderings. Lots of important

persons, painters, scholars, philosophers, poets and artists gathered around

him and plied him with an endless array of questions. Vivekananda was engaged

the whole day in answering them. A Harijan who was standing in a corner at last

got the chance of falling at his feet and the monk asked him why he had come. He

asked, "Swami, you must be very hungry; shall I bring you some milk? Or, if I

get some flour, you can prepare chapattis (leavened bread) yourself if you will

not eat those prepared by me; no one seems to have thought of your food." That

man had Prema, which is a divine gift. That is more fruitful than all the

knowledge packed in a library of ancient texts.

There are three types of men: the Naasthikas (non-believers), who consider

Padhaartha (worldly objects) as Yathaartha (as real in themselves); Aasthikas,

who believe in a will behind all that they see and experience and bow to that

will and try to explore that Will so that they may adhere to it and not run

counter to it; and the Aasthikas, who have realised that the objective world

has only relative value, not an absolute value. The latter two will not blame

any one, even the Lord, for their ills. As long as the son is a minor, he will

not be entitled to the share of parental property; similarly, so long as you

are a minor in Sadhana, not fully grown up and able to look after your own

destiny, so long, you will have to be suffering and struggling. Again, if you

say, "III", then you are left alone and you

stumble and fall. But if you say, "Not I, but You," then all things will be added unto you.

Object of performing miracles

What exactly people who have struggled for a hundred years have won? They have

hungered and eaten, slept and awakened, laughed and wept---but what is the

result of it all on the personality or on the world? Nil. When humanity flows

purposeless and meaningless into the sands, the Avatar comes to warn and show

the way, the one task has to be fulfilled in various ways; that is the Mission

of the Avatar. The Avatar thathwam (principle of Incarnation), as mentioned in

the scriptures, was explained by Velury Shivaraama Shastri now. Let me tell

you, it is only those who know the scriptures, that can understand Me. I am

determined to correct you only after informing you of my credentials. That is

why I am now and then announcing My Nature by means of miracles---that is, acts

which are beyond human capacity and human understanding. Not that I

am anxious to show off My Powers. The object is to draw you closer to Me, to

cement your hearts to Me.

Getting to know Me is also a part of your destiny. The other day, on Vaikunda

Ekadasi, when amrita (nectar) was being given by Me a few who had come weeks

ago, who had witnessed the creation of amrita on the river-bed and who had

taken their seats in the long line of devotees, had to get up and go just when

I was approaching their line and thus, miss the chance of perhaps a lifetime.

It is all earned opportunity. As a matter of fact, each one of you has to be

saved: you have to escape from this net, when the opportunity comes. I shall

not give you up, even if you forsake Me; for it is not in Me to forsake those

who deny Me. I have come for all. Those who stray away will come again to Me,

do not doubt this. I shall beckon them back to Me. I bless you that you earn

the Vision of the Divine in this life itself, with this body

itself.

Prashanthi Nilayam, 24-11-1961

When Rama enters the mind, Kama (desire) has no place therein. Desire ceases,

when God seizes the mind. In fact, since desire is the very stuff of which the

mind is made, it becomes non-existent and you are free. This stage is called,

manonigraha, mano-laya or mano-naashana ---the death of the mind, the merging

of the mind or the killing of the mind. - Sathya Sai Baba

TO BE CONTINUED…

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