Sai Inspires - 1-15 June 2007

June 16, 2007

Sai Inspires - 1st June 2007 As long as we are involved with external appearances, we have to carry the burden of doubts and weakness of faith. We will not be able to get rid of involvement in unnecessary things. Faith is like a live volcano. No seed will sprout on such a volcano. Doubts

are like seeds. If the doubts multiply, it means that your faith is weak and unstable. It is like an extinct volcano. If your faith is strong, no doubts will crop up. Where there are doubts, there can be no faith. - Divine Discourse, July 24, 1983. Faith is the root of spirituality. If you believe that God exists, He exists. If you have no belief, so far as you are concerned God does not exist. -

Baba Sai Inspires - 2nd June 2007 A plantain tree has a number of uses. The leaf can be used as a dinner plate, the flower is used in some recipes, the outer covering of the trunk can be used a good binding and packing string; but the main use of the tree is the bunch of bananas it yields. All the trouble that is taken for planting and growing the plantain tree is for its bananas, not its leaves, bark or flowers. So too, the main use of the human body is the realization of the Reality. The rest is all incidental. - Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 7, pg. 442. Laziness is rust and dust; self-realisation is rest and best. - Baba Sai Inspires - 3rd June 2007 In the journey to the Divine, man has to reduce progressively his desires, which are the cause of all his difficulties. It is true that man cannot exist without desires. But, they should be within reasonable limits. There can be no happiness without control of desires. Among the senses, two are most important: the eyes and the tongue. Because of their exceptional importance, the Lord has provided them with the means of restraining their activities. The Lord points out: "You silly man! Take note that I have provided natural means for closing the eyes and the mouth." If you do not want to see anything undesirable, you can close your eyes with the eyelids. The ears and the nose have no such devices for closing them. The mouth has lips which can seal the tongue... When you control your eyes and tongue, you can easily control all

other senses. - Divine Discourse, March 13, 1988. Master the mind, be a mastermind. - Baba Sai Inspires - 4th June 2007 It is only love that encompasses and permeates the entire world. None can exist without love even for a moment, be it human beings or animals or birds or insects. This love is the very form of God. But today, man is misusing this sacred love by diverting it toward the ephemeral world. Never underestimate the power of love. Our ancient sages, leading a life of solitude in dense forests, could live in harmony even with wild animals only because of the power of their love. There is nothing that love cannot achieve in this world. It can even melt the hardest of rocks. - Divine Discourse, July 28,

1999. Love is God; live in love. - Baba Sai Inspires - 5th June 2007 Worship of the Divine must stem from the heart. When devotion flows from the heart, the voice of the Divine can be experienced in silence - the sound of the Supreme Spirit... Can the Divine voice be heard in the cacophony of daily sounds? No. Devotees must practice reticence. When speech is restrained, the voice of the Spirit within makes itself heard. That is subtler than the human breath. - Divine Discourse, January 1st,

1992. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. - Baba Sai Inspires - 6th June 2007 In human society today, egoism is rampant. Ostentation is ubiquitous. Can peace and security be ensured in such a milieu? Can God's grace flow in such a state? No. Whatever one's scholarship or wealth, as long as there is Ahamkaara (egoism) God's grace will not flow. Grace, like water, flows from a higher to a lower level. God's grace will be showered on those who have

humility and discipline. Humility is essential for securing God's grace. Revere elders. Be content with what you have. Develop goodwill towards all. Bear no ill will towards anyone. When you desire that all should love you, you should equally love all. - Divine Discourse, November 23rd, 1994. Humility is the hall-mark of education. - Baba Sai Inspires - 7th June 2007 The 'I' is the foundation on which you build your divinity and the mansion of dharma (righteousness). This truth can be known through Karma and Upaasana (activity and dedication, deeds and devotion) which purify and clarify. Just as water and fire get

transformed into steam, which moves a locomotive and drags heavy wagons along the rails, Karma and Upaasana generate Jnaanam (spiritual knowledge), which moves man's life smoothly along the rails of peace and joy. Karma and Upaasana create detachment; they teach the true sense of values; man learns that peace can be won only by withdrawing the mind from the objective world, not by allowing it to graze in the poisonous meadows of sensual pleasure. - Divine Discourse, March 19, 1967. Activity must be dedicated to God, the Highest Good. Then it will provide health to body and mind. -

Baba Sai Inspires - 8th June 2007 It is only when your devotion is acknowledged by the Lord that you can call yourself a devotee. If you have not received the acknowledgement, it may mean that you have given the wrong address in your devotion. The correct address of the Lord is Hridayavaasi - the Indweller in the Heart. This means that you must continue with your devotion to God until your own conscience is satisfied. To achieve this satisfaction you have to purify yourself constantly. This means that you have to get rid of your bad qualities, bad thoughts and bad actions. It is only through Prapathi or total surrender, that the Divine can be experienced. It is an experience that can be had every moment of your life. - Divine Discourse, January 1st, 1992. Living for God is the true devotion. - Baba Sai Inspires - 9th June 2007 The Sun shines over a pond. The water has ripples due to wind. The Sun appears unsteady in the pond. But in reality, only the image wavers, not the Sun. The waves in your mind make you perceive Divinity in various moods, names, forms; but Divinity is One. It is not Divinity but only your feelings that change with time. Meditation is the process of uniting the mind’s scattered thoughts. Everyone can see diversity in unity. We must see unity in diversity, the underlying principle, the Atma (spirit). - Summer Showers, 1995. There is only one God, He is omnipresent. - Baba Sai Inspires - 10th June 2007 Any task undertaken with self-confidence is absolutely essential for every person. If you expect others to respect and love you, you should first respect and love them. Without respecting or loving others, you cannot expect any reciprocal feeling from them. In the same way, if you love God, God loves you. Life consists of reaction, resound and reflection. You get back exactly what you do to others. - Divine Discourse, 23rd November 2000. One should shed his ego or arrogance, if he wants to be loved by others. - Baba Sai Inspires - 11th June 2007 Although the sweets which we prepare and eat have many different forms and names, the fact is that all of them contain one common thing and that is sugar. Just as we must realize this truth, we must also realize that in this world, while there are so many individuals with different forms and names, the one common thing that is present in all of them is the Vishnu Thathwa or the Omnipresent spirit. This realization will enable you to develop love for the entire humanity. - Summer Showers, 1973. True culture consists in the recognition of the unity that underlies the diversity in mankind. - Baba Sai Inspires - 12th June 2007 To get peace, love is the only means. The fuel 'love' yields the Divine flame of peace.Love brings about unity of all mankind and this unity combined with spiritual knowledge will bring about world peace. The discipline of the self is the basic foundation for successful living. Through that alone can man attain real and lasting peace. Without peace there can be no happiness. - Prasanthi Vahini. A peaceful mind is the abode of love. - Baba Sai Inspires - 13th June 2007 Each religion forgets that God is all Forms and all Names, all attributes and all assertions. The religion of

Humanity is the sum and substance of all these partial faiths; for, there is only one Religion and that is the Religion of Love. The various limbs of the elephant that seemed separate and distinct to the eye-less seekers of its truth were all fostered and activated by one single stream of blood; the various religions and faiths that feel separate and distinct are all fostered by one single stream of love. - Divine Discourse, June 19th, 1974. Love is god, live in love. - Baba Sai Inspires - 14th June 2007 Keep the heart pure, unsullied by evil or vice. Let the rays of Love illumine it. Let the foul bats of hatred and greed fly away from the cavity of your hearts; let the clean air of mutual cooperation and help render the cavity safe and sweet. You see these trees; they are able to stand firm and grow because of the roots that have spread out of your sight. You see this garland in my hand. The hundreds of flowers are held together by a thread, which you do not see.... So also, this world is so plentiful, so charming, so rich, so comfortable, so regular in its movements and moods, because it has an unseen Master and law-giver, God. The Unseen is the sustainer of the Seen. - Divine Discourse, March 9th, 1974. A heart without words is far more precious than words without a heart. - Baba Sai Inspires - 15th June 2007 Life must be heightened and lightened by self-sacrifice. How can a cup full of water take on milk? The water has to be poured out. When the cup of the heart is full of evil, no virtue can be stored therein. You need not renounce action; you can renounce the idea of aggrandizement or ownership when the action results in victory or defeat. Limit your greed, your superfluous desires and try to be simple in dress, speech and behaviour with others. When a man was offered free all the land he could walk around from sunrise to sunset, the poor fellow walked so fast and so long that he died before he could reach the starting point. That is the fate of the greedy. - Divine Discourse, December

30th, 1982. It is only when you develop love and the spirit of sacrifice that you will realise the divinity that is in the human. - Baba

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