Divine Quotes (non-Amma)

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Start the day with Love; spend the day with Love, fill the day with

Love; end the day with Love. That is the way to God.

 

PRACTICE the constant presence of God and, learn to offer all your

activities at the Feet of the Lord as an act of worship. Then they

will be free from fault.

 

LOVE must be manifested as Service or Seva. Seva must take the form

of food for the hungry, solace for the forlorn, consolation for the

sick and the suffering. Jesus was himself out in such Seva. The heart

full of compassion is the temple of God. Jesus pleaded at the sight

of the poor. Jesus is worshipped but His teachings are neglected. Sai

is being worshipped but His teachings are neglected. Everywhere pomp,

pageantry, hollow exhibitionism and Lectures, Lectures and Lectures!

No activity, no love, no seva. Heroes while lecturing are Zeros while

putting what is said into practice. Develop Compassion. Live in Love.

Be Good, Do Good and See Good. This is the way to God.

 

THE Divine is a wine that would intoxicate you. The nectar that the

Name of the Lord is saturated in produces it. Taste it and you forget

everything else; you are transformed. Man is, they say, a monkey that

has lost its tail; well, he must lose many more attributes of the

monkey before he is entitled to call himself Man. He must dedicate

his thought, word and deed to God and surrender to His Will.

 

The path of life has both ups and downs. Every rose has its thorn.

Now, people want roses without thorns, life has to be one saga of

sensual pleasure picnic all the time. When this does not happen, you

turn wild and start blaming others. If each one cares for his own

pleasures, how can Society progress?

 

THERE are some ignorant persons who laugh at "Bhajans" and other acts

of worship and consider them a waste of valuable time. Those persons

might laugh at your pouring bags of paddy seeds on a slushy field and

condemn that act too as waste of valuable food-material. But you know

that, for every bag of paddy-seed, Mother Earth will give back grain

tenfold or even twenty fold, in a few weeks. Time spent in

contemplation of God or adoration of the Divine is indeed well spent,

for it rewards you with a rich harvest of mental peace and courage.

 

WHEN Jesus was emerging as the Supreme Principle of Divinity, he

communicated some news to his followers. The statement of Christ is

simple. (He, who sent me among you, will come again) and he pointed

to a lamb. The lamb is merely a symbol, a sign. It stands for the

voice BA-BA. The announcement was "The Advent of BABA". - "He will

wear a robe of red, a blooded robe". He will be short, with a crown

(of hair). The lamb is a sign and symbol of Love. Christ did not

declare that he would come again, he said, "He, who made me, will

come again". That BABA is the Baba; and Sai, the short curly hair

crowned, red-robed Baba has come.

 

YOU must speak soft and sweet words to everyone. Do you like the

voice of the crow? No, you drive the crow away when it starts to caw;

its speech is harsh, it is too loud for your ears. You must have

heard the Koel, the cuckoo, haven't you? That bird looks very much

like the crow; it grows in the nest of the crow with the baby crows;

the mother crow, along with her own kids, feeds it. But no one will

throw a stone at a "Koel"; every one likes to hear its sweet voice.

Speak soft and sweet; then every one will like you.

 

FAITH is the basis of every act. You do not run away from the barber

because he is armed with a sharp razor. You place faith in him and

allow him to cut your hair, quietly submitting to his idiosyncrasies.

You give away costly clothes to the dhobi since you have the faith

that he will return them washed and ironed. You have faith in the

driver of your car and in the engineer who built your house. So too,

believe in the inner Motivator, the Atman within, the voice of God.

 

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba