Yearning and Yen For The Supreme Advent
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NEW KRISHNA STATUE IN FRONT OF SUPER SPECIALITY HOSPITAL IN PUTTAPARTHI:
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A new statue of Lord Krishna was installed in the place the old one in front of
Swami's super speciality hospital in Prasanthi Nilayam. Here is the photo of
the new and old statue.
Courtesy - SaiBliss
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Today, we are confronted everywhere by statistics parading quantities and
reports in glowing terms. Do not bother about adding to the number or achieving
a target. I value quality, not quantity. Genuine and intensive devoted service
offered in a few spots or villages is more fruitful than superficial servic...e
offered to a large number. Convince yourselves that life cannot continue long
without others serving you and you serving others. Every relationship - be it
master-servant, ruler-ruled, guru-disciple, employer-employee, or
parents-children and so on - is bound by mutual service. Everyone is a sevak
(servitor). The farmer and labourer whom you serve, produce by their toil your
food and clothing as their service to you. Remember that the body, with its
senses-mind-brain complex has been awarded to you to be used for helping the
helpless. Seva is the highest of paths of Devotion which wins the Grace of God.
Service promotes mental purity, diminishes egoism and enables one to
experience, through empathetic understanding, the unity of mankind.
- Divine Discourse, 21-Nov-1986.
“To Be, is to Serve”. -BABA.
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Among the qualities that make up a flawless character, love, patience,
forbearance, steadfastness, and charity are the highest and noblest. The
hundred little deeds that we indulge in every day harden into habits; these
habits shape the intelligence and mould our outlook ...and life. One’s present
is but the result of one’s past and the habits formed during that long period.
But whatever be the nature of the character that one has inherited, it can
certainly be modified. Nobody’s wickedness is incorrigible. Wasn’t robber
Angulimala, turned into a kindhearted person by Lord Buddha? Didn’t thief
Rathnakara become Sage Valmiki? By conscious effort, habits can be changed and
character refined. People always have within them, the capacity to challenge
their evil propensities and to change their habits. By selfless service,
renunciation, devotion and prayer, old habits that bind people to earth can be
discarded and new habits that will take them along the divine path be
instilled.- Prema Vahini, Ch 2.
Purify your mind by starving it of the bad food it runs after which is
transitory pleasures; feed it with the wholesome food of Divine Thoughts. -BABA.
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Today people are wasting a big portion of their precious lives by indulging in
flimsy gossip and watching scenes of violence and cruelty. Many are unaware
that time sanctified by service offers high rewards to themselves as well as to
those they serve.... All acts of service are not equally sanctifying or uniform
in the benefits they confer. When service is undertaken by power-hungry people,
or under compulsion or by imitative urges, it results in more harm than good. A
sincere aspirant undertaking service must avoid egotism (ahamkara),
exhibitionism (adambara) and favouritism (abhimana). Before embarking on a
service project, introspect and examine whether your heart is full of selfless
love, humility and compassion, whether your head is full of intelligent
understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution, whether your hands
are eager to offer the healing touch, and whether you can gladly spare and
share time, energy and skill to help those in dire need.- Divine Discourse 21
Nov 1986.
Make every act of your service, a worthy flower, to be placed at the Lord’s
Feet. -BABA
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