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Bharwani [email protected] [saidevotees_worldnet]
Sent: 25 February, 2016 23:31
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Subject: [saidevotees_worldnet] Sai messages
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Expansion is the keynote of education. The first step for this expansion is the
home, where you must revere and please your parents who gave you this chance to
live and learn. If you ill-treat them or inflict grief on their minds, how can
you ever gladden others by service and understanding? You know t...hat when a
balloon is blown, it bursts and the air inside it merges with the vast
limitless expanse outside. So too your love must fill your home and your
society, and finally burst even those bonds and become worldwide. A drop of
water held in the palm evaporates soon; it is very solitary. But drop it into
the sea - it survives! It assumes the name, the majesty and the might of a sea!
Cultivate the seeds of love in all hearts! - Divine Discourse, July 25, 1975.
Close your eyes to others faults, but keep them open to see your own
mistakes.-BABA.
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It is not the nature of a spiritual aspirant to search for faults in others and
hide their own. If your faults are pointed out to you by someone, don’t argue
and try to prove that you were right, and don’t bear a grudge against them for
it. Reason out within yourself how it is a fault and s...et right your own
behaviour. Rationalising it for your own satisfaction or wreaking vengeance on
the person who pointed it out —these should not be the traits of a spiritual
aspirant or devotee. The spiritual aspirant must always seek the truthful and
joyful, and must avoid all thoughts of the untrue, sad and depressing.
Depression, doubt, conceit — these are as detrimental as Rahu and Kethu (evil
planetary influences) to the spiritual aspirant. They will harm one’s spiritual
practice. When your devotion is well established, these can be easily discarded
if they appear. Above all, you must be joyful, smiling, and enthusiastic under
all circumstances.
- Prema Vahini, Ch 63.
It is only when you recognize your own faults that you begin to understand the
ways of the Divine. - BABA
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Love is Divine. Love all, impart your love even to those who lack love. Love is
like a mariner's compass. Wherever you may keep it, it points the way to God.
In every action in daily life manifest your love. Divinity will emerge from
that love. This is the easiest path to God-realization. But why aren't people
taking to it? This is because they are obsessed with misconception relating to
the means of experiencing God. They regard God as some remote entity attainable
only by arduous spiritual practices. God is everywhere. There is no need to
search for God. All that you see is a manifestation of the Divine. All the
human beings you see are forms of the Divine. Correct your defective vision and
you will experience God in all things. Speak lovingly, act lovingly, think with
love and do every action with a love-filled heart. - Divine Discourse, July 5,
1996
Share Love, which is God’s gift, with everyone in the world. -BABA
New Accommodation Office for Prasanthi Nilayam
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Today a new accommodation office was inaugurated at Prasanthi Nilayam. The new
facility will serve both Indian and overseas devotees, and is situated right
behind the North Indian Canteen and beside N 8, where the overseas
accommodations office was situated before.
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Every person is liable to commit mistakes without being aware of it. However
bright the fire or light, some smoke will emanate from it. So also, whatever
good deed a person might do, mixed with it will be a minute trace of evil. But
efforts should be made to ensure that the evil is minimised, that the g...ood
is more and the bad is less. Naturally in the present atmosphere, you may not
succeed in the very first attempt. You must carefully think over the
consequences of whatever you do, talk, or execute. In whatever way you want
others to honour you, or to love you, or to behave with you, in the same way
you should first behave with others, and love and honour them. Then only will
those honour you. Instead without yourself honouring and loving others, if you
complain that they are not treating you properly, it is surely a wrong
conclusion. - Prema Vahini, Ch 63.
Whoever loves and serves all, him the Lord loves and honours. – BABA.
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Why can’t a spiritual and devotional life wait till one gets old? Bhagawan
lovingly explains, giving us an important message.
Young age is like a delicious fruit. You should offer this sweet and delicious
fruit to God. It is not possible to begin worshipping God after retirement in
old age, when your body becomes weak, the sense organs lose their power, and
the mind becomes feeble. Start early, drive slowl...y and reach safely. Start
praying to God right from an early age. If you do not undertake sacred actions
when your physical and mental faculties are strong, then when will you perform
them? What can you do when the sense organs have lost all their power? Hence
practice offering the fragrant flowers of your mind and heart to God with total
faith from a young age. This is true naivedyam (food offering). Many people
today do not make such offerings. When their senses become weak after indulging
in all sorts of sensual pleasures, they think of offering them to God, akin to
offering leftover food. - Divine Discourse 16-Jul-1996.
Prayer is for the mind what food is for the body. - BABA.
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Before offering to God, it is food. Once it is offered to God, it becomes free
from all impurities and gets transformed into prasadam. By eating such sacred
food, one will not acquire any mental impurities. We offer food to God on a
clean plantain leaf. The human body is a plantain leaf, your heart is a sacred
vess...el and and the sacred food items are the virtues and acts of good
conduct. Today to whom are you offering food? Your sacred food offering is to
demons of wicked feelings such as anger, hatred, and jealousy. The left over is
being offered to God. That is why you are victims of restlessness,
difficulties, sorrows, and misery. Get rid of your evil qualities and offer
your virtues to God with the prayer: ‘Oh God, You are the resident of my heart
and You are the embodiment of love, kindness, and compassion.- Divine Discourse
16-Jul-1996.
To get angry is but the effort of a moment but to get peace, to become
unaffected by the ups and downs of life, is the result of years of training in
Vedanta. – BABA.
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