Prashanti News Updates: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 01, 2012

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Today Swami explains what are the essentials to be taught to children and students so as to create a good nation.

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The character of children must be made strong and pure. Give them all the confidence and courage they need, to become good, honest and self-reliant. It is not enough if they learn to make a living - the manner of living is more important than the standard of living. Children must also be taught to have reverence towards their religion, culture and to educational attainments. Children must learn well their mother tongue, so they can appreciate the great poetical works and epics written by the seers of their land. These will give them valuable guidance during the stormy days of their life. Above all, they must develop a deep reverence for their motherland.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 18 1966

Education is the means of unfolding the moral and spiritual potentialities of man. - Baba

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 31, 2012

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What should we do to attain undiminishing happiness? Bhagawan explains and guides us on our journey.

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People are eager to get happiness and when there is a prospect of earning undiminishing happiness, many people jump at the idea. But soon they are tired of the effort required, and seek shortcuts. Sometimes they lean on others to carry their weight and aspire for much fruit in return for very little cultivation. Some efforts here and there, such as listening to discourses or making speeches will not be sufficient. Rigorous discipline and steady faith are absolutely necessary for success in the spiritual journey. You must control your senses, which drag your mind towards the attractions of the external world. To have steady faith, one must control the wayward mind that paints attractive pictures in false colours to lure you on from birth to birth.

- Divine Discourse, Aug 19 1965.

Master the Mind, Be a Master-Mind. - Baba

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 30, 2012

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What is the cause of the troubles and discontent many are subjected to nowadays? How can we overcome them? Our Loving God explains to us today.

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What is needed is control of the senses, not their destruction. To control means, to keep under one’s behest; obedient to one’s will. And destruction means denial of activity, complete inaction. One must keep all senses under control and use them only when the purposes for which they have been devised are to be fulfilled. In your home, you decide and carefully watch who are the right people to walk through the door. Those who must enter by one door should not use some other door. If they do, then that house will have only confusion and disorder. It is wiser to take precautions against such disorder before they enter, rather than deal with the intruders after they have come in. You may excuse the trespass for the first time. But certainly, you must take enough care to see that it is not repeated. That is the better method, though not the best.< /font>

- Geetha Vahini, Ch 16.

Control of the senses and observance of the accepted code of discipline are the hallmarks of a cultured man. - Baba

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 29, 2012

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How can we win divine grace? What effort does it call for? Bhagawan explains to us today.

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When you achieve Chitha Shuddhi (purity of mind), Truth will be clearly reflected therein. For this, good company is essential. Company of pious and holy people leads gradually to withdrawal from entangling activities. When a cold bit of coal is placed in the midst of glowing cinders, and when the fire is fanned, the coal too starts glowing with the fire. The Jnaana Agni or the Fire of Wisdom operates similarly. Individual effort and Divine Grace are both interdependent. Without effort, there will be no conferment of grace. To win that Grace, you only need to have faith and virtue. Knock - the doors of Grace will open. Open the door - the Sun’s rays waiting outside will flow silently in and flood the room with light.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 27 1966.

Command the mind, regulate your conduct, keep your heart straight and clear, then you will get the grace of God. - Baba

Friday, July 27, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 28, 2012

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In our life we may remember or forget many events and experiences we witness. But what are those things we cannot afford to forget? That is the message Bhagawan blesses us with today.

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Human beings are endowed with memory, as well as the faculty to forget. Both are useful skills. Perhaps, the power to forget is even more important – otherwise people will lament over the loss of millions of parents and kinsmen from previous births, and also the insults and injuries they suffered in this birth. Luckily the power to forget helps with all of these. People often remember only those things that have impressed them as significant – their birthdays, wedding days, their debtors, etc. Tragedy is that people forget the most critical thing about their earthly career – the key to happiness and liberation. Man cannot afford to forget the questions - “Who am I? Where am I going? Where did I come from? What is the nature and purpose of all this?”

- Divine Discourse, Jul 14 1965.

Come into the world with the question, "Who am I?" Leave it with the answer,
"God I am." - Baba

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 26, 2012

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What is one’s true nature? How can we attain it? Our Loving God explains to us today.

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Your nature is Divine; God is the very substance of which you are merely another name and form. To realize this you must develop the discrimination between the eternal and the ever changing. You must know that the Universe is constantly subject to change and modification, and that Lord alone is unchanging. Practice detachment from pleasures of this world and that of the other, being convinced that they are fraught with grief. Control the senses and the sensory promptings; exhibit fortitude in the midst of grief and pain, joy and victory. Have firm faith in the Teacher and the Sacred Texts, and on the steady contemplation on the Absolute, undisturbed by other waves of thought. You will then gain realization of your True Nature.

- Divine Discourse, Jul 14, 1965.

There is no greater example of Selfless love than Nature. - Baba

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 25, 2012

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In the Geeta the Lord advises Arjuna to picture God as Kavi, Anoraneeyan and so on. What do these terms really mean? Bhagawan explains to us these aspects of Divinity today.

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The Lord is referred to as Kavi - one who is aware of the past, present and future. He knows all and sees all. It is the Lord who revolves in every heart and effects changes from step to step. He is the Motivator for the entire creation, the Prime Basis. He is the poet; His poem is all this (Kavi also means poet). He lays down the conduct for all. The five elements execute His orders. They cannot overstep the limits laid down by Him. His laws govern also the inner world of all beings as no human law can. And He is 'subtler than the subtle'; subtle not in form, He is the subtlest because He is devoid of qualities; something that you cannot fathom with the eye, the ear or the other senses. During sadhana (spiritual practices), the Lord has to be pictured as the ‘un-picturable’.

- Geetha Vahini, Ch 16

Compassion towards all beings is devotion to God. - Baba