Baba Thoughts

Do not grieve that the Lord is testing you and putting you through the ordeal of undergoing difficult times. For, it is only when you are tested, can you assure yourself of success and become aware of your limitations. You can concentrate on the subjects in which you are deficient, so that you can pass in them when you are tested again. You should study well in advance and have the courage and confidence, born out of knowledge and skill. This is the pathway to victory.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Chap 7, Vol 3, Mar 1963.

Sai Thoughts

The batsmen, the bowlers, and the fieldsmen in a game do not get a fraction of the pleasure that the fans enjoy. The fans note each fault and excellence in stroke and the defense. They appreciate the finer points of the game. So too, to get the maximum joy out of this game of living, one should cultivate this attitude of the onlooker, even when one has to get deeply embroiled in the game.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Chap 7, Mar '63.

Sai Thoughts

Do not worry about worldly comforts and ask God about those things, as if they are all-in-all. Do not waste your precious life-time in distracting doubts about the existence of the Lord in the human form - here and now. Cultivate Divine Love towards all, that is the greatest service you can do to yourself. For, the others are the very same self as you. You must bend only before Love and Truth, not before hatred, cruelty and falsehood.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3, Ch 7, Mar, 1963.

SAI'S GOLDEN TEACHINGS

Love has first to gladden the home. There is no love now between the elders and the youngsters in the home; often children do not revere parents. This moral decline will certainly undermine unity and strength. Moral decline is worse than military decline; it will lead to greater disaster. If you always repeat the idea of "mine", how can you be useful to others?... Sacrifice is the 'salt' of life; it is the secret of peace and joy... All the senses are self-centred, egoistic. They must be educated to be "inward-directed", towards the Atma which is Universal.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 5, Ch 18, Mar 27, 1965.