Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Feb 24th, 2006

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Devotion cannot be confined to observances like worship, pilgrimage or

going to temples. These are merely actions indicative of devotion.

There is a power which provides a basic impulse for these actions. That

is the love of God. Bhakthi (devotion) means Paripurna Prema (all-

encompassing love). This love is motiveless. Love based on an ulterior

motive cannot be real love. As a river seeks to join the ocean by a

natural impulse, as a creeper winds itself naturally around a tree to

climb upwards, the devotee's love is a spontaneous expression of the

yearning to realize God, free from worldly desires of any kind. It

proclaims that it needs no one except God. It is oblivious to all other

things. It regards the Divine as the One that pervades everything. You

must realise that the Divine is present in everything. Only when you

can recognise the omnipresence of the Divine will you be able to

experience the Divine.

-SAI BABA