Sai message for the day

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Swami! Kindly instruct us in the main principles making for progress

in spheres such as Science, Politics, Ethics, Religion, and

Spirituality.

 

Sai Baba: If you follow three main principles, all round progress is

ensured. You will undoubtedly progress in all fields of activity,

individual and collective.

 

The first principle is daivapri ti, Love of God. The second is

papabha ti, Fear of Sin. The third is sanghan i ti, Morality in

Society. Unless you love God immensely, you cannot fear sin. With

fear of sin, morality gets automatically established in society.

Thus, the three principles are interdependent and interrelated.

 

I often tell my students, " Before you do anything, just put this

question to yourself: Will Swami approve this action? Is this going

to please Swami? " Your intense love for Swami will not allow you to

do anything wrong. Evidently, love of God leads to fear of sin. We

find turbulent and raging waves in the sea dashing against boulders

that stand steady and unshaken. In the same way your faith should be

steady, strong, unshakeable, and unwavering, irrespective of losses,

failures, defeats, troubles, difficulties, and problems. For

instance, - if anyone says to you, " There is no God, " what reply

should you give? You should reply in this way, " All right, you don't

have your God, but what right do you have to deny my God? "

 

Never forget God, remember pancaksari, the five lettered mantra - `

devudunnadu ' - (1) de, (2) vu, (3 ) d u , (4) nna, (5) du , (Telugu

sentence with five letters meaning God exists). In order to see that

you don't doubt this, repeat astaksari , the eight lettered Sanskrit

mantra, sams'ayatma vinas yati, (1) sam, (2) s'a, 3) ya, (4) tma ,

(5) vi, 6) na, 7) s'ya, 8) ti which means `doubt is death'. Never

doubt God. In a sentence like this, " God is nowhere " reflects your

pitiable plight of being denied His presence. Now, take out `w' from

the beginning of the fourth word `where', and join it at the end of

the third word `no'. Then the sentence reads, `God is now here'.

 

Man most unfortunately commits sins but is not prepared to face their

consequences. He expects pun yam, merit, the result of good actions,

but does not refrain from doing papam, sin. Nor would he do any

meritorious deeds to get good results. Is there any logic or

rationale for him to get good results? How foolish are such

expectations? How do you expect one kind of result from an altogether

different and opposite kind of action? Always bear in mind the whole

thing comes back to you in the form of reaction, reflection, and

resound. You cannot escape them. When you fully realise this, you

will not commit sins or involve yourself in harmful deeds. So you

should `Love God' and `Fear Sin'. With these two, there will be

`Morality in Society'.