Prashanti News Updates: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 01, 2012

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Sometimes there are some doubts, if our worship of an individual form and the absolute formless can both be true? Swami shows us the way to reconcile the doubt in our mind and march onward to Him.

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The spiritual aspirant is given to wonder which one is better or true - the Saguna (with form) aspect or the Nirguna (formless) aspect of God. Understand that they are like ice and water. Though water is formless, it takes the form of the vessel which contains it. Water and ice are one and the same. Similarly there is no difference between the two forms of worship. In the spiritual journey, Saguna and Nirguna meditation are like the right and left feet. When you worship a form of the Lord, bear in mind the underlying formless aspect. Remember that God’s Glory can never be contained through words or forms of worship. Similarly, during the Nirguna meditation, do not lose faith or diminish the majesty or glory that the Form carries. The final step, however, must be the auspicious right foot, the Nirguna aspect.

- Divine Discourse, Sep 28, 1965.

To worship God as immanent in every atom or cell in the body is the
highest form of worship - Baba

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 31, 2012

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What is the best means of dealing with the ups and downs of life? Bhagawan gives us a solution and fills us with hope today.

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Once a merchant asked a sailor how his grandfather and father had met their end. It seems they both had died on the sea. So the merchant asked the sailor whether he was not afraid of sailing on the sea. The sailor then asked the merchant where his forefathers had died. He was told that they had all died in bed. Now the sailor asked the merchant how he was not afraid of going to bed! Everyone’s life shall come to an end somewhere, somehow; but the wise alone achieve the Divine Vision before the end. If you have the cool spring of devotion within you, the fires of anxiety cannot harm you. Then, every visit of calamity will take on a new meaning, as a sign of Grace, to harden and toughen you, and make you seasoned timber, for His purpose. Be an instrument in the hands of God; let Him use you for any purpose He prefers.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Jul 3, 1966.

Righteous action and control of the senses are essential for the cultivation of universal love and goodness. - Baba

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 30, 2012

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How can we live and enjoy good health and peace? Bhagawan explains to us today.		Audio Special: "Tryst with Divinity - Conversation with Mr. Suresh Rao - Part 1" Click Here to Listen Now		H2H Special: "Quiz on True Medical Care" Click Here to Read Now

Illness is caused more by malnutrition of the mind than of the body. As doctors speak of vitamin deficiency, I will present the root-cause in similar lines as ‘Deficiency of Vitamin G’. To cure this, I will recommend the repetition of any Name of God, along with contemplation of His Glory and Grace of God. That is the medicine to overcome the Vitamin G deficiency. Regulated life and habits are two-thirds of the treatment while medicine contributes to one-third. Every one of you must reveal the qualities of love, humility, detachment and contentment through all your actions. When your mind is unattached to the ups and downs of life, but is able to maintain equanimity under all circumstances, your physical health will be excellent.

- Divine Discourse, Sep 27 1965.

Control your desires. Don’t waste money, don’t waste time, don’t waste food,
and don’t waste energy. - Baba

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 29, 2012

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What is the misleading game played by the senses on us? How can we overcome them? Swami answers this tough one with a secret for us today.

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The scriptures point out the means of securing everlasting joy, but people are drawn to earn shadowy joys and fleeting pleasures that are fraught with evil and harm. They are trying to draw water with a pot full of holes. The senses leak out the joy they draw. The senses are wild untutored servants who dictate terms to their master – the mind. The mind has to be brought under your grip. Then the servants will fawn at your feet. The mind is the monarch; the senses are the soldiers; the soldiers are now ruling the king, because he lends his ears to them and not the intellect, who is the Prime Minister. Let your intellect take charge. The light of the Sun (your Soul) is obstructed by the thick clouds of desire for sense objects and objective pleasure. Let the strong wind of repentance and resolution scatter these clouds, so that the Aatma may shine forth brilliantly.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Sep 28,1965.

When you use your senses in a sacred way, you can certainly see the
manifestation of God. - Baba

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 28, 2012

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What is the root cause of distress and discontent, prevalent in every heart and home today? Our Loving God provides us with a solution today.

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By an inordinate attachment to the Seen, one becomes an alien to the realm of the Unseen. Know that the Unseen is the basis of the Seen. The Unseen gives stability and value to the Seen; the Unseen is the One that is true and valid. In spite of the warnings administered by countless saints through the centuries, people have forsaken the Unseen for the sake of Seen. The Unseen alone can confer contentment and courage to face fortune as well as misfortune. Ignoring the Unseen causes discontent and distress. To overcome this, develop devotion and you are free, for the Lord takes on the burden you carry.

- Divine Discourse, July 3, 1966.

Compassion towards all beings is devotion to God. - Baba

Monday, August 27, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 28, 2012

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What is the root cause of distress and discontent, prevalent in every heart and home today? Our Loving God provides us with a solution today.

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"Experiences at Kodaikanal as narrated during Thursday live, 31 May - 7 Jun 2012 - Part 3"

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With a little reasoning you can know for yourself the path you need to take, thereafter, it can be trodden step by step until the goal is reached. Whatever be the path, retain this knowledge that attachment causes pain and detachment results in joy. But you cannot easily detach yourself from activity; the mind clings to something or other. Make it cling to God, let it do all things for God and leave the success or failure, the loss and the profit, the elation or the dejection, to God. Then you have the secret of peace and contentment. To get this attitude of surrender and dedication, you must have Faith in God. God, whose play this world is. This world is not an empty dream; it has a purpose and use. It is the means by which one can discover God. See Him in the beauty, the grandeur, the order and the majesty of Nature.

- Divine Discourse, July 3, 1966.

Compassion towards all beings is devotion to God. - Baba

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 27, 2012

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What is the secret of peace and contentment? Bhagawan answers this crucial question and explains further today.

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- Sathya Sai Speaks, Mar 28 1965.

The thirst for worldly goods can never be appeased; trying to satisfy it makes it only more acute. - Baba

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 26, 2012

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What is the ultimate fact we all must realise and what do we need to do for the same? Bhagawan guides through verses of the Geetha.

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In the Geetha, Krishna said to Arjuna, “I am the witness; through Me, this conglomeration of the five elements called Universe, all these moveable and immoveable objects, are formed. Whatever the name or form worshiped, I am the Recipient; for I am the Goal of all. I am the only One. There is no Other. I Myself become the Worshipped, through My many Names and Forms. Not only this, I am the Fruit of all actions, the Bestower of the Fruit, and the Prompter. To realise Me is indeed liberation. He is the Jivanmuktha (liberated even while alive) who attains that realisation. Arjuna, if one yearns to become a Jivanmuktha, one has to eradicate fully the attachment to the body.”

- Geetha Vahini, Ch 18.

Consider all your acts as worship. Whatever happens, accept it gladly as His handiwork, a sign of His compassion. - Baba