Sai thoughts

The Lord is sugar. You may drop it into tea or coffee or milk or water. Into whatever thing you put it, it will make it sweet. Sweetness is His nature, sweetness is his signature. If you melt the sugar, there is neither water nor sugar, but a third thing called sugar syrup, which also gives sweetness. If your tongue is bitter through hatred, envy and pride, you cannot feel any sweetness. Get rid of the illness and you can enjoy the sweetness that God really is!

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 8, Mar, 1963

sai thoughts

What is the profit if you simply repeat "Delicious food" thousand times? You have to eat, digest and assimilate. If you have no deposits in your account of Bhagavan's Grace Bank, how dare you issue cheques expecting returns when you are in distress? From today, make the deposits, such as service to others and create assets for yourself by possessing Divine Love, and practicing Non-Violence to all. Then, you will receive help in return. Believe Me, through your daily activities, you can realize the Lord. Remember the Name of the Lord with the agony of the unfulfilled search and you are sure to experience Me. If the yearning is present, the result is certain.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 5, Feb 6, 1963.

Baba thoughts

Dharma is the code of conduct which promote the ideals that everyone at various stages of their life must follow. One may be a householder, earner, master, servant, saadhaka (spiritual aspirant) or sanyasi (monk), everyone has a code of conduct. When this code is distorted and if the purpose of this earthly sojourn is undermined, The Lord incarnates as Man to restore the principles and re-establish the practice of Dharma. Take the Name of the Lord and do your duty in a dedicated manner. Express gratitude to your parents. This is the Lord's advise.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 10, Apr, '63

sai thoughts

If only people knew the path to permanent joy and peace, they will not wander distracted among the bye-lanes of sensual pleasure. When you die, you must die not like a tree or a beast or a worm, but like a individual who has realized that He/she is God. That is the consummation of all the years you spend in the human frame.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 11, Apr, 1963.

sai thoughts

The Lord is a "Kalpavriksha" (Wish fulfilling tree); you have to approach Him and develop attachment to Him. You must win His Grace and be ever near Him, keeping back all the forces that draw you away from Him. Even if you commit some technical faults in singing about Him or in worshipping Him, it does not matter. Bhakthi (intense devotion) will make Him excuse the error. Your devotion will force the Lord to give you Himself as the Gift.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 12, 29-4-63

sai golden teachings

See yourself in all; Love all as yourself. A dog caught in a room whose walls are mirrors sees in all its myriad reflections, and thinks of them as not itself, but as its rivals and competitors. It barks at the other dogs and tires itself out by jumping on this reflection and becomes mad with fury. The wise man, however, sees himself everywhere and is at peace. He is happy that there are so many reflections of himself all around him. That is the attitude that you must learn to possess, it will save you from needless bother.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Ch 3, Vol 16, 7-7-1963

sai golden thoughts

Each person has a different conception of God and goodness, according to one's upbringing and the state of purification of their impulses. All conceptions are valid; when water is let out in fields, you will find sheets of different shapes - circular, rectangular, oval, square, according to the shape of the fields. The fertility or the quantity of the crops harvested do not vary according to the geometrical correctness of the shapes. How far, how fast you have established attachment to the Lord - that is the test, the rest does not matter!

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 17, 2-8-1963.

sai thoughts

Life is a battlefield, a Dharmakshethra, where duties and desires are always in conflict. Smother the fiery fumes of desire, hatred and anger that rises up in your hearts. It is sheer cowardice to yield to these enemies that turn you into beasts. When obstacles come, meet them with courage. They harden you, make you tough.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 17, 2-8-1963.

Baba Golden Thoughts

Remember always that it is easy to do what is pleasant; but it is difficult to be engaged in what is beneficial. Not all that is pleasant is profitable. Success comes to those who give up the path strewn with roses and brave the hammer-blows and sword-thrusts on the path fraught with difficult choices.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 18, 12-8-63

Baba golden thoughts

There is no Sathyam (Truth) without Shivam (Goodness). Truth alone can confer Beauty and Auspiciousness. Truth is beauty, joy is beauty. Grief and falsehood are ugly because they are unnatural. Do your actions, that are approved by higher wisdom. Stay away from those actions that are born of ignorance. Then all actions will be beneficial and blessed.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 16, 7-7-1963

sai golden thoughts

The goal of life is the final merging in the sea, God. You should not fill life with the world. That will make it a vanity fair, an insanity fair. Listen to all such things that will draw you towards the principle of Godhead; then, think it over in the silence, make it a part of your consciousness. This process of Manana (Reflection) makes you a human being. This is the test of life for every human being.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 21, 6th Sep 1963.

sai words

Sanctify every word and deed by filling it with the Love and the Name of your favorite Lord. The gold of which an anklet was made can become the gold for a crown on the head of a temple image. Only it has to be melted in the crucible and beaten into shape. The waters of the river may not be pure, but the devotee who sips it with a Manthra or Sthothra (Sacred Prayers) on his lips, transmutes it into a sacred theertha (Holy Water). The body becomes healthy by exercise and work. The mind becomes healthy by remembrance and contemplation of the Lord through regular, well-planned discipline, carried out joyfully. This is the secret passage to win the Heart of the Lord, to realize Him quick and fast.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 6, Sep-6-63

sai speaks

It is an uphill task to reform one's tendencies and character. You may have the best of the vegetables and the most capable cook, but if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concoction you cook will be highly poisonous! So, "tin" your heart with Sathya, Dharma, Shanthi, Prema (Truth, Right Conduct, Peace and Divine Love), it will then become a vessel fit for repeating holy name and worshipping the Lord.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 5, Ch 1, Jan 1965.

SAI'S GOLDEN WORDS

Perform action, but do not hanker after the fruit. Do not complain that you did not get public recognition for the good you did. Fruits, whether good or bad, you yourself have to consume. If you crave for the profit, you will have to be prepared to accept the loss also. The best means of liberating yourself from the consequences is to ignore the fruit and perform action, for the sake of action only. Then, you will not be burdened with either the merit of action or the sin from it.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 5, Ch 1, Jan 1965.