Sai message for the day

[Guest guest]

We take sumptuous meals twice a day. Again, we take heavy breakfast,

evening tiffin and several cups of coffee now and then during the

course of the day. Still, we feel weak and exhausted. You don't take

anything except one or two spoonfuls of food. But you work and strain

yourself a lot. You walk miles in a day. How are you so energetic?

 

This is divinity. You derive energy from the food you eat. If you

take less food, you become weak. But, the energy of Swami is not

derived from food. I don't take any breakfast. I just drink a glass

of water at 10.00 in the morning. I eat very little. I do not take

curds, ghee, sweets, ice cream, oily or spicy stuff and the like. My

food is a poor man's food, ` ragi ', millets. You have seen me not

taking anything in the evenings for the last one year. I do so much

work. I personally look into every minute detail of the institutions

here: educational, hospital, mandir, besides the current water

project. I have direct contact with every devotee. No one stands

between. Since there are no secrets, I have no secretary. It is all a

connection of only love-to-love and heart-to-heart. For the work I

do, it is estimated that I need 1500 calories of energy. But the food

I take has hardly 200 calories. Then, where from do I get the energy

I need? It is not from food. Know that I am energy, nay, its very

source.

 

Physically, I am 70. Yet, I can see even an ant from a distance. I

don't wear glasses. You people begin wearing glasses from 40 years of

age. I can hear any sound, even the slightest, and my teeth are very

strong and sharp. I don't have even a single grey hair. I feel like

walking more and more. But it would put you all to inconvenience as

many follow me wherever I go. I attend to my personal work. You may

wonder how my senses are so sharp.

 

What is your prayer before you take your food? You pray to God who is

in the form of Vaisvanara and to whom food is offered as he digests,

assimilates, and supplies the essence to the different parts of your

body. Therefore, the food you all eat comes to me and I am in you.

Just examine why your senses are weak. The answer is simple, viz.,

misuse of senses, selfishness, and narrow-mindedness. There is not an

iota of selfishness in me from top to toe. You are mine. My only

concern is your welfare and spiritual progress.