Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - October 01, 2011

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1 October, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: Why is discrimination an important aspect of right living? What according to the Vedas are the essential steps we must take to lead meaningful lives? Bhagawan explains to us today.   Audio Special: "Panel Discussion on Mother Sita as a role model" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "Dussera Celebrations 2011: Video Presentations" Click Here to Watch Now
	You may think that you are enjoying the pleasures, but really speaking it is the pleasures that are enjoying you. They sap your energies, dry up your discrimination, consume your allotted years, and infest your mind with egoism, envy, malice, hatred, greed and lust. The scriptures teach that it is important to remove these weeds from the garden of the heart; and in the grounds thus cleared, one must plant the saplings of Prema (love) and cultivate the fruit bearing trees of Dharma (virtue). Many who claim to revere the Vedas and Shaastras (scriptures) are not practising what they preach. Never plunge into action spurred by impulses; ponder deeply over the pros and cons, and then act so that you escape pain and also do not inflict it on others. This is true in worldly as well as spiritual matters. - Divine Discourse, Sep 28, 1965.
Spiritual progress is right living, good conduct and moral behaviour. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 30, 2011

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30 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: The Vedas describe various paths through which a seeker can offer worship to the Almighty. Bhagawan explains two such paths to us today.   Audio Special: "Songs on Sai Sannidhi day - 4 September 2011" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special Video: "Dasara Darshan and Discourse - 9 October 2002" Click Here to Watch Now
Angavathi and Anyavathi are two of the many paths of adoring the lord. The Universal Being is the Fire, the Wind, the Sun, the Moon and all else. He is the breath that sustains life and the rain that feeds the plants which provide sustenance. So He can be adored as having graciously assumed all these beneficent forms. This approach, through the benign manifestations of Angas, is the Angavathi path. Anga means a limb or a feature. Adoring Divinity by symbolising a certain facet of the Universal being is the Anyavathi path; Anya meaning the other or the appurtenances. Easwara or Shiva (the facet of dissolution) has the trident symbolising in its three prongs, the Past, the Present and the Future. Krishna, the manifestation of universal love, bears a flute which is the symbol of the egoless, desireless se eker. In the Anyavathi path seekers meditate on these pleasing personifications and the significance of the symbols and adore the Divine in the delight that wells up in their hearts. - Sathya Sai Vahini, Ch 23: “Modes of Worship”
You can see the manifestation of God anywhere, only when you use your senses in a sacred way. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 29, 2011

 

 

 

29 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: How can we achieve progress in concentrating our thoughts on God? Bhagawan explains to us today.   Audio Special: "SSE on Air, Episode - 10 on Honesty" Click Here to Listen Now   Feature: "Conversations with Sai: Part 10" Click Here to Read Now
To concentrate effectively, establish your attention on a form that gives you joy. Sit in the padmasana (lotus) posture and fix your eyes on the tip of your nose. In the beginning, practice meditation for a minute; then for three minutes. A few days later try for six minutes and after some time, for as long as nine minutes. Thus the concentration has to be strengthened gradually, without undue hurry. Slowly the mind can be held for even half an hour; this discipline must be developed steadily. With practice, the mind will get fixed and the power of concentration will increase. To attain concentration and acquire one-pointedness, you must undergo exertion to some extent. You must fasten your mind on the Lord and keep off all other thoughts from the mental plane. By such exercise done constantly, your vision will be firmly fixed on the Lord residing in your heart . That is, verily, the goal, the full fruition of meditation. - Dhyana Vahini, Ch 13: “Developing One-pointedness”
Tender hearts, holy thoughts and loving speech - these invoke divinity at all times. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 28, 2011

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28 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: What are the various paths that can lead one to the bliss of Divinity? Bhagawan answers this question for us today and explains further.   Audio Special: "Serving in the Name of Sai - 9: Seva in Ukraine" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "Flying Colours of Puttaparthi: Part 6" Click Here to Read Now
Upasana means the acquisition of the Divine presence and the achievement of the bliss of adoration. Vedic tradition sanctions four paths as legitimate and fruitful to win this achievement: Sathyavathi, Angavathi, Anyavathi and Nidaanavathi. We shall consider the path of Sathyavathi today. The scripture defines the Divine thus: Sarva vyaapinam aatmaanam, ksheere sarpith iva arpitham - the Atma is immanent everywhere just as ghee permeates every drop of milk. When the seeker pursues the Truth with this conviction, his spiritual practices are called Sathyavathi (Truth-based). The Lord declares, “In My latent form, I am in the entire Creation, operating the mystery. See in Me all and see all as Me.” The Lord promises this vision of immanence and transcendence to whomsoever that persists with sincerity o n this Sathyavathi path. - Sathya Sai Vahini, Ch 23: “Modes of Worship”
Cultivate your heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 27, 2011

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27 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: Why is cultivating good habits foundational for spiritual development? Bhagawan reiterates today.   Audio Special: "Ramzan program by Sai students: 31 Aug 2011" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "Healing Touch: Pradeep's Perseverance and Sai's Grace" Click Here to Read Now
The senses are extrovert by nature and so they drag the ignorant perpetually towards external objects. Hence the spiritual aspirant, endowed with discrimination and renunciation, must suppress the outbursts of the senses, just as the charioteer wielding the whip and the reins does to the raging steeds. Uncontrolled senses cause great harm. But before using concentration and meditation to control them, cultivate good habits. Concentration must have Sathwa-guna (pure qualities) as its basis. The mind has to be purified by proper treatment of the character through good habits. Concentration has to follow this purification process, not precede it. Else the whole effort would be futile. Many great people have ruined their careers by aspiring for concentration without the discipline of good habits. - Dhyana Vahini, Ch 13: “Developing One-pointedness”.
Habits mould your character and character decides your destiny. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 26, 2011

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26 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: What is the meaning of the word Veda and why is it essential to foster the Vedas even in today's times? Bhagawan explains to us today.   Audio Special: "Drama presented during Onam celebrations: 9 Sep 2011" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "Why We Should Spread the Fragrance of Pure Love?" Click Here to Read Now
The root of the word ‘Veda’ means ‘to know’. Vedas are also known as Chandas; this means pleasant, joyous. Other important meanings of this word are vital, strong and shielded. All these are the qualities of the Vedas as it is shielding, fostering, promoting the welfare of humans engaged in the unceasing round of worldly affairs, and conferring the ultimate liberation. Humans are ever caught up in activities pursued with the profit available as the purpose. They have to be moulded as righteous men and women. The Vedas shield people on the path of action (karma marga) from engaging in unrighteous acts, and protect the seekers of knowledge (jnana marga) from the temptation of the senses. Through their role as armour or shield, they shower bliss on all who rely on them. The sacred ceremonies and rituals that Vedas ex pound confer joy and bliss not only on the participants but also on the entire world and beyond. - Sathya Sai Vahini, Ch 23: “Modes of Worship”.
Do all acts as offering to God; do not classify some as ‘my work’ and some as ‘His’ work. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 25, 2011

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25 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: What is more important, mastering one's mind or achieving sense control? Bhagawan explains to us today.   Audio Special: "Devotional Songs and Stotrams sung by students on Krishnashtami 2011" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "Interview with Mrs. Rani Subramanian - Part 6" Click Here to Read Now
Remember the senses can do nothing by themselves; they are not independent. If the mind is brought under control, the senses can also be controlled. Some people undergo mere asceticism of the senses in order to control the mind! They are ignorant of the real discipline that is necessary - the destruction of desires. However vigilant warders may be, a clever robber can still steal in a hundred amazing ways. So too, however skillfully you may try to control the senses, the mind will drag them to its side and execute its desires through them. If only the outer door is closed and the inner door is left unbolted, calamity is certain. Therefore the aspirant should establish mastery over the external senses. But the mind too has to be controlled by means of Shanthi (peace) and Vairagya (renunciation). When this is done, one can experience Ananda (spiri tual bliss) and visualize the Atma (Divine Self) within, at all times.  - Dhyana Vahini, Ch 13: “Developing One pointedness”
Spiritual path is the path of detachment, of sense control, of rigorous mind training. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 24, 2011

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24 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: What is the relation between the manifest nature and the unmanifest absolute and how do we understand the underlying oneness? Bhagawan explains this to us today.   Audio Special: "Fleeting Moments - Lasting Memories  Mr.Krishnan Shankar, Part 2 " Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "The Presence of the Greatest Power- Mr.Charles Penn" Click Here to Read Now
The latent Atma causes the patent world. Being is behind Becoming, and finally, Becoming merges in Being; the patent is absorbed into the latent. Just as milk flows from the cow, from the Supreme Person flows the power of maya as Prakriti (Nature) - the apparent manifestation. Milk is a composite of cream, curd, and butter, which can be separated out of it through various processes. So too, the five fundamental elements (earth, water, fire, air and space) were separated out through cosmic processes. Therefore what appears as the Cosmos is only the superimposition of the non-real Individual Self and the five elements on the absolute substratum - God. His Will causes this unreal multiplicity to be superimposed on the One that He is. He can by His mere will end it, for He is the Master of Maya. - Sathya Sai Vahini, Ch 22: “Eternal Truths”.
Subtlety is the essence of spirituality. - Baba
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Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 23, 2011

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23 September, 2011 Featured on Radio Sai: How do we tackle the mind and the thoughts that arise in it, during meditation? Bhagawan explains to us today.   Audio Special: "Talk by Mr.Jayakumar IAS Add. Chief Secretary, Kerala- Prasanthi Nilayam, 9 Sep 2011" Click Here to Listen Now   H2H Special: "Get Inspired: Shiny Little Angel" Click Here to Read Now
The mind plans and executes innumerable deeds and roams over vast expanses, all in the twinkling of an eye! It operates with unimaginable speed. However while meditating, the mind should not be allowed to wander away from the object of meditation. Whenever it flies off at a tangent, it must be led back to the form meditated upon. Only one form has to be meditated upon in the beginning; do not change the object of focus everyday. To concentrate effectively, you must be careful not to have as your focus something your mind does not like, or that which causes pain or shakes your faith; for however hard you may try, your mind will not stay fixed on these. With time, even if unpleasant thoughts come, learn gradually to welcome them as beneficial, and seek to grasp the good in them. - Dhyana Vahini, Ch 13: “Developing One-pointedness”.
Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with God, it is the state of meditation. - Baba
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