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Love Is My Form,
Truth Is Breath,
Bliss Is My Food;
My Life Is My Message;
Expansion Is My Life.
No Birth, No Death.
A mere five - minute inquiry will convince you that you are not the body, or the
senses, the mind or the intelligence, name or the form, but that you are the Atma
Itself, the same Atma that appears as all this variety.
Once you get a glimpse of this truth, hold on to it; do not allow it to slip. Make
it your permanent possession.
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Do not calculate the length of time you have spent in the company of the Lord's
Name, and exult. Calculate rather the length of time you have wasted, away from
that contact, and repent. Have that Name ever in your thoughts and you can brave
any calamity.
A strong will is the best tonic; the will becomes strong when you know that you
are a child of immortality or a person who has earned the Grace of the Lord.
Spirit can only be awakened and realised through individual discipline and the
Grace of God. These two can be won through Love, Purity and Service to others.
Past is past, it can't be recalled, Future, you are not sure of... The given
moment is now (Present). This Present is Omnipresent.
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You might have heard people talk of the 'miracles' ; of May 'making' this, and
'giving' that, of my fulfilling your wants, of My curing your illnesses. Of course
I confer on you these boons of health and prosperity, but only so that you might,
with greater enthusiasm and with less interruption, proceed with spiritual sadhna.
The Eternal has no birth and death, no beginning, no middle nor end; it does not
die, it is not born, it can never be destroyed; it is witness, the Self, the Atma.
Wholesome happiness arises only from the fullness of love; Truth, Peace, Charity,
Fortitude... these can fructify only in that atmosphere of love ... sathya Sai.
Men yearn for good times, high status, power, good life; But seldom do they yearn
for good thoughts, wisdom, and virtue. What better advice can Sai give.
From ashes emerges vegetation; And oasis emerges in sand dunes, Pedestal of life
stands on decaying forms Whose roots are embedded in insensate life.
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The Lesser the number of your Wants, The Greater is your Freedom and the Richer
you are; The Greater the Number of your Wants, The Lesser is your Freedom and the
Power you are.
Difficulties are created to increase the yearning and to sift the sincere devotee
from the rest.
Learn to speak little and to speak softly. That will reduce the chances of getting
angry. Seek the good in others and the evil in yourself.
Your heart should be filled with compassion towards all living beings. You should
fill the suffering hearts with prema (love). You should radiate thoughts that can
generate aananda (blissful peace).
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Give up the company of the worldly minded, the association with those infected by
aasuric (evil) qualities.
Keep away from every type of wrong doing. Seek always the company of the wise, the
good. Take refuge in Narayana (God); He the Pure One, is the Embodiment of peace,
of happiness and knowledge.
Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where
doctrines and doubts clash.
Prayer has great efficacy. The Vedic seers prayed for the peace and happiness of
all mankind, of all animate and inanimate things. Cultivate that Universal vision.
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The feeling of friendship must activate every nerve, permeate every blood cell,
and purify every emotional wave. It has no place for the slightest trace of
egoism. You cannot elevate the companionship which seeks to exploit or fleece for
personal benefit, into the noble quality of friendship. Perhaps, the only friend
who can pass this rigorous test is God.
You Prayed for Something Good, I Overheard it, Be Praying, Don't Stop, Until you
get the Boon.
The mind is like a lake. When the water is calm, the rays of the sun are reflected
on the surface of water, like those on a mirror. But if the water is disturbed
because the wind is blowing, then there is very little reflection. Man must learn
to control his mind. Man is Divine, and if only he could remember that, he would
see life so very differently; he would cease to be affected by so much of what
goes on in the world.
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I am 'yes'' to those who say 'yes', I am 'no' to those who say 'no'; 'No' and
'Yes' are words you speak.
Dedication is different from service; in service, there is the element of ego. "I
serve, He is the master, He acquires my service, for Him". "I am necessary for
Him".
But, in dedication, the I is wiped out. There is no desire for the fruit; the joy
consists in the act being done. To cultivate that attitude of dedication, everyone
must think of God, remember the Name of God and deepen faith in God.
After long searches, here and there, in temples and in churches, in earths and in
heavens, at last you come back, Completing the circle from where you started, to
your own soul, and find that He, for whom you have been seeking all over the
world, for whom you have been weeping and praying in churches and temples, on whom
you were looking as the mystery of all mysteries, shrouded in the clouds, in the
nearest of the near, is your own self, the reality of your life, body and soul.
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Love lives by giving and forgiving; self lives by getting and forgetting.
Give each problem the attention it deserves; but do not allow it to overpower you.
Anxiety will not solve any difficulties; coolness comes from detachment. Above
all, believe in God and the efficacy of prayer; the Lord has said that he who does
good, think good and speak good will not come to harm. That is the way to get
equanimity, shaanthi.
This Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of uniting the entire
mankind as one family. through the bond of brotherhood; of affirming and
illumining the inner reality of each being in order to reveal the divine which is
the basis on which the entire cosmos rests; and of instructing all to recognise
the common Divine Heritage that binds man to man, so that man can rid himself of
the animal and rise into the divine which is his goal!
To achieve release, man kneels before a million Gods, in frantic pain. If he but
blasts the ego within, the goal is reached, he is freed indeed!
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Cleanse your mind of the temptations and tenets of ignorance; make it free from
duct, so that God may be reflect therein.
Believe firmly that the body is the residence of God, that the food you eat is the
offering you make to your Deity; that the bath you take is the ceremonial bathing
of the Divine Spirit is you; the ground you walk upon is His domain; the joy you
derive is His gift; the grief you experience is His lesson that you tread the path
more carefully. Remember Him ever, in sun and shade, day and night, awake or
sleep.
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Love your religion, so that you may practice it with greater faith. And when each
one practices his religion with faith, there can be no hatred in the world, for
all religions are build on universal love.
Be attached under all conditions to the source, substance and sum total of all the
power, The Lord ... Then you can draw from that source all that you need.
Gain inner peace, inner joy; that can be done only when you act without an eye on
the gain. The act must be its own reward; or rather, the act must be according to
the prompting of God within, so that its consequences is left to Him. Practice
this attitude consistently and you will find greater Peace welling within you and
around you.
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Real meditation is being absorbed in thought of God all the time. God only, only
God. Think God, breathe God, see Good, hear God, live God, Love God.
When worship is rendered with a view to fulfilling desires and realising wishes,
the precious prize will be lost. Worship must cleanse the heart, so that the
indwelling God may shine in all His Glory; but desires tarnish, instead of
cleaning.
Everyone is eager to be happy; everyone thinks that wanting more and working less
to earn the things wanted, is the quickest way to be happy. No one tries the other
method, wanting less and working more.
Bhakti cannot come into man from outside him; it has to be grown from within by an
effort to cleanse the mind, to know the nature and origin of man and the universe,
to grasp the relation of man with all the external objects which now fascinate and
fail him.
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The moment you realize that you are not the body, that very instant all the
attachments and delusions will disappear.
Freedom is independence from externals. Perfect freedom is not given to any man on
earth. Lesser the number of wants, the greater is the freedom. Hence perfect
freedom is absolute desirelessness.
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Discriminating before you develop attachment. If you have attachment towards wife
and children, land and buildings, bank accounts and balances and when these
decline, you will come to grief. Develop attachment towards the Universal, and you
too will grow in love and splendor.
"The real and unreal are not two distinct things; one is the absence of the other,
that is all... There is only One appearing as two ... The pure mind reflects the
Reality clearly - God, that is the basis of Self as well as the objective world.
God is immanent in every particle in the universe. The clear vision can experience
Him everywhere at all time, and that vision confers immeasurable, inexpressible
bliss."
Falsehood looks easy and profitable, but it binds you and pushes you into
perdition.
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"Whoever you are, you are Mine. I will not give you up. Wherever you are, you are
near Me; you cannot go beyond My reach."
You will understand Me only through My work, that is why sometimes in order to
reveal who I am, I Myself show you My 'Visiting Card', something that you call a
miracle.
Expansion is Life.
Contraction is Death.
"See God in everyone you meet. See God in everything you handle. His majesty is
immanent in all that is material and nonmaterial. This whole creation is an
expression of His majesty. God has his hands in all handiwork, His feet at all
heights. His eyes beyond all horizons, His face before every form."
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"If you develop Love, you do not need to develop anything else."
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To discover one's reality and to dwell in the Divine peace, one need not give up
the world and take to asceticism.
Is there anything sweeter than all things sweet, more auspicious than all
auspicious things, holier than all holy objects; verily, it is the name of the
Lord or the Lord Himself.
Loving God means surrendering to His will. By such total surrender, man becomes a
channel of God's Love.
You must come to me for a Darshan to fill your heart joy and ask forgiveness. The
Darshan enables you, to re-charge your mental battery when it becomes weak.
There is no prayer more fruitful than seva.
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"Individual effort and Divine Grace are interdependent. Without effort, there will
be no conferment of Grace. Without Grace, there can be no gain from the effort. To
win Grace, you need only have faith and virtue... Knock, the doors of Grace will
open, Open the door, the sun's rays waiting outside will flow in and fill the room
with light."
If you honor your father, The Father of all Beings will guard you.
The lotus, born in slime and mud, rises up through the water and lifts its head
high above the water; it refuses to get wet though water is the element which
gives it life!
To earn the goodwill of the Master, there is one recipe; obey His order without
murmur. Grace is showered on all who obey instructions and follow order.
Before one's birth, one has no relationship with the world and its material
objects. After death, they and all kith and kin disappear. This sojourn is just a
game played in the interval.
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Face the Six Foes - They are Lust, Anger, Attachment, Pride, Hatred and Greed.
As you remove the husk that covers the rice, so the ignorance that adheres to the
mind has to be removed by the frequent application of the abrasive soul inquiry.
"The Lord does not weigh the status or caste of an individual before bestowing His
grace. He is all merciful and His grace falls like rain or moonlight on all the
people."
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I am aware why you suffer and how you can escape suffering.
"It is part of human nature that man desires to reach the presence of the Almighty
to see Him and be ever with Him, for deep within the human heart is the urge to
reach the place from which he has come, to attain the joy he has lost, the glory
which he has missed. Man is himself divine and so it is a matter of the deep
calling unto the deep, of the part calling for the Whole ..."
Cut the 'I' feeling clean across and let your ego die on the Cross, to endow on
you Eternity.
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God is the doctor, seek him, rely diseases on him, you will be free from diseases.
"Seen through the eyes of Love, all beings are beautiful, all deeds are dedicated,
all thoughts are beneficial, and the world is one vast family."
Man's distance from Divinity is the same as his distance from himself.
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Listen to the primeval Pranava AUM resounding in your heart as well as in the
heart of the Universe.
Each one from ego takes his birth and clad in ego dies and comes and goes,
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Love is God, God is Love. Where there is Love there God is certainly evident. Love
more and more people, love them more and more intensely; transform the love into
service, transform the service into worship; that is the highest saadhana.
All the joy you crave for, is in you; but, like a man who has vast riches in the
iron chest, but who has no idea where the key is, you suffer. With proper
direction, dwelling upon them in the silence of meditation, it is possible to
secure the key, open the chest and be rich in Joy.
Life is just a chance to see for yourself your beginning and your end.
"You are My forms al., When I Love you I Love Myself; When, you Love yourselves,
you Love Me. I have separated Myself from Myself so that I may Love Myself."
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Get the flower, and you have its beauty and fragrance.
Have faith in his Grace, and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service
of the weak, a life spent in the thought, about the might and glory of God.
Pray that you may carry out your duty well. God will certainly answer your
prayers.
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"God has a million names ... a million forms. Select any name of His that appeals
to you. Choose any form of His. Every day when you awaken to the call of the
brightening East, recite the Name, meditate on the Form. Keep the Name and Form as
your companion, guide, and guardian throughout the waking hours. When you retire
for the night, offer grateful homage to God in that Form, with that Name - for
being with you, by you, beside you, before you, behind you, all day long. Know
that within the many forms and many names, God is present is all of them. The
inner being is, in reality, only One."
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When the Name is pronounced by the tongue, and the image is adored by the mind,
these should not degenerate into mechanical routine; the meaning of the Name and
the content of the Form, must, at the same time, inspire and illumine the
Consciousness.
Brahma was in existence well before mind and intelligence came into existence.
Grief is a friendly reminder, a good taskmaster; ever a better teacher than joy.
God gives both protection and punishment; for how can He be the Lord if he does
not insist on strict accounting and strict obedience?
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An educated man must realise that he has more obligations than privileges, more
duty than right.
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"From the Form to the Formless, from the Formless to the Form - both processes are
possible and progressive. The personal God is an expression, a symbol, a
representation of the impersonal God. The impersonal does become personal and
assumes form and attributes. This is the very nature of the Divine."
The cure is to used the same desire, and turn it to God, too desire God.
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God is Truth,
Truth is Goodness,
Goodness is Beauty,
is yourself.
be yourself.
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"Service is the most difficult of the nine steps to Inner Reality ...
It is basically action arising out of the yearning to win the grace of God ...
Through service alone can man attain mastery of the ... senses, the passions and
the predilections, and through that reach Divinity Itself ...
I have come to teach you the proper attitude of service - for Love express as
service, and God is Love ...
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These are the four pillars on which the mansion of happiness, here and hereafter,
is built.
"The message of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, which Jesus
Christ proclaimed two thousand years ago, should become a living faith for the
achievement of real peace and the unity of mankind. The oneness of creation,
affirmed by the ancient seers and sages, can only be expressed in a transcendental
love which embraces all people, regardless of creed, community, or language."
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He directs,
You have to act well the part and receive His approbation when the curtain falls.
"Falsely identifying oneself with the body, man suffers in the coil of attachment
towards mother, father, wife, children, relatives, and friends.
He does not realise that he has neither the body nor the senses, but that he is
Brahma Itself."
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The ego has to sacrifice itself so that man's divine nature can manifest itself.
"Mine" is death;
'not mine' is immortality. Renunciation results in peace. The golden key of non -
attachment opens the lock which keeps the door to heaven shut.
"Really, if only you have faith in the Name, you need not struggle to secure the
chance to detail to Me your desires and wants. I will fulfill them even without
your telling Me."
The term Bhagwan means the one who is capable of lighting the divine effulgence,
the illumination of wisdom, the eternal inner light of the soul. Can there be
anything greater than earning the Love of such an omniscient, omnipotent Lord?
There is nothing on earth or beyond it which is equal to Divine Love. To make all
endeavors to earn that Love. is the whole purpose and meaning of Human existence.
The secret of liberation lies not in the mystic formula that is whispered in the
ear and rotated on the Rosary. It lies in the stepping out into action, the
walking forward in practice.
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I bring tears of joy into your eyes and I wipe the tears of grief.
Don not come to me with your hands full of trash, for how can I fill them with
Grace when they are already full. Come with empty hands, and carry away My
Treasure, My Love.
At first, name and form are essential, that is the reason who Avatars come, so
that God can be loved, adored, worshipped, listened to and followed, and finally
realised as nameless and formless.
See God installed in everyone; every body is a temple, where the Omnipresent God
is to be adored and worshipped by your service.
A Pure Thought from a Pure Heart is better than a Mantra.
Give the Guru your mind as you would entrust Gold to the Goldsmith.
The Guru may need to melt, mould or beat your mind, But do not worry, as he will
return to you a precious Jewel.
Do not say Swami give me peace, but do not give me pain, as Swami may need to
inflict pain before the process of purification is complete.
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My hand stretches out for receiving only when a pure heart full of prema is
offered. On other occasions it gives, never takes.
Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the Language of fragrance.
I am always guarding you and guiding you, march on; have no fear.
Close your eyes, withdraw your indriyas (Senses) from then sensual objects. search
Him in the heart with one - pointed mind, devotion and pure Love. You will surely
find Him, He is waiting there with outstretched aims to embrace you. If you cannot
find Him there. You cannot find Him anywhere else.
You may say that progress is possible only through My Grace, but though My Heart
is soft as butter, it melts only when there is some warmth in your Prayer.
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Prayer is the very breath of religion; For it brings man and God together and with
every sigh, nearer and nearer.
You ask from Me a thousand things of the world, but rarely do you ask for Me.
I require from each of you no other gift, no more valuable offering than the Heart
I have endowed you with. Give me that heart, as pure as when I gave it to you,
full of the nectar of Love I filled it with.
The Lord is understood only by His bhakta - The bhakta is understood only by His
Lord.
May the pure and the righteous rejoice! The wicked and the false, the cowardly and
the cruel may also rejoice, for He in His mercy will lead them back onto the Holy
path. If I close the door against the sinful, the fallen and the Renegade, where
else can they go?
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The desire to know God, love God and be loved by God is not desire that binds.
To Eliminate the ego, strengthen the belief that all objects belong to God, and
you are holding them on trust. This would prevent pride; is also the Truth.
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Happiness is Awareness.
If you live on the level of the body and the individual, you will be entangled in
food, entertainment, and frivolity, in ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it,
overcome it - you will have Peace, Joy and Calm.
When troubles come, look beyond the mountains to the Blue Skies. See that you are
witnessing My play. See that your life is as temporary as the dancing clouds. Your
coming and your going is just part of your performance. Take God alone seriously,
and play the parts you are given by Me with Love. I will grieve should you
misunderstand your roles. You are the Spirit within you; you are your blessed
self. My Kingdom that is within you is your real home.
"Oh, how I Love you. How I care for you. Come! Rejoice with Me. You are ever dear
to Me."
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Most devotees seek Health, Wealth, Power and Fame from God, which are all trivial
assets, yielding momentary pleasures.
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"As science develops and technology advances, humility and Love should also
develop to the same extent."
I call those ready to see me; of course, there are different levels of readiness.
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Let different faiths exist, let them flourish. Let the Glory of God be sung in all
languages in a variety of tunes. Respect the differences between the faiths and
recognise them as valid, as long as they do not extinguish the flame of unity.
Where the road ends God is attained, and the pilgrim finds he has journeyed from
himself to Himself.
When grief overtakes you, you run to God... When joy is restored you throw Him
overboard ... Bhakti is not a temporary slave, it is the unbroken contemplation of
God without any other interposing thought or feeling.
The Ananda (Bliss) that I derived from Bhajan I do not get from anything else.
One without Power does not mean Lake of Physical or Mental Strength.
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Preserve the purity of your hearts, so that SAI may reside therein..."
Religion of Love.
He is Omnipresent.
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Though I am Omnipresent and found everywhere, you can find Me installed wherever
My Glory is sung.
I give you what you want so that you may want what I want to give you.
He is all Forms,
He is all Names.
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If animal feelings are washed out, divine feelings begin to overflow instead.
Consoling Words,
Compassionate Acts.
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I - Want - Peace
"I" is Ego,
"Want" is Desire;
Remove Ego and Desire and you will be left with Peace.
In this Avatar, the wicked will not be destroyed, they will be corrected.
I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own
faith, so that the Christian become a better Christian, The Muslim a better
Muslim, and the Hindu a better Hindu.
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Be convinced that God can and will appear in any form. Do not refuse to recognise
Divinity in the form you dislike and did not expect.
Silence is Brahma.
Love all
Serve all.
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Love is God,
Live in Love.
God has to come in human form and move about among them, so that He can be
Listened to, Contacted, Loved, Revered, and Obeyed.
No More,
No Less.
Why fear when I am here.
Have faith that Sai is with you at all time and at all place.
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Educated Man must realise that he has more obligations than privileges, more
duties than rights.
Be content.
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He is Universal.
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