Prashanti News Updates: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - February 01, 2013

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What is the role of devotion and religion in the spiritual path? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today.

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The Lord is a Mountain of Love. Any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaust His plenty. He is an Ocean of Mercy without a limiting shore. And devotion is the easiest way to win His Grace and also to realize that He pervades everything; in fact, He is everything! Sharanagathi (total surrender) or leaving everything to His Will, is the highest form of devotion. Devotion and the attitude of surrender, which is its final fruit, will give you great courage to meet any emergency; such courage is what is called Renunciation. When Devotion is just emerging as a sapling, a fence is needed to protect the tender plant. That fence is religion and its rules, restrictions, directions and commands.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 1, MahaShivarathri, 1955.

Let compassion and sacrifice be your two eyes; breathe easily without ego and let love dance on your tongue. - Baba

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - January 31, 2013

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What should we do to be attracted by Divinity? Bhagawan clearly explains to us today.

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God draws the individual towards Himself. It is the nature of both to have this mutual affinity; they are just like the iron and magnet. But if the iron is rusty, covered with layers of dirt, the magnet is unable to attract. Remove the impurities, then you will shine forth in your real nature and the Lord will draw you unto Him. Spiritual practices (Sadhana) should result in inner as well as external cleanliness. You do not feel refreshed if you wear unwashed clothes after your bath. Nor do you feel clean if you wear washed clothes, but skip taking bath. Hence, both are needed – the baahya (external) and the bhaava (internal). Trials and tribulations are the means by which this cleansing is done. They are like the dietary and other restrictions prescribed to supplement the effect of the drug of Namasmarana (remembrance of God).

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 1, Vijayadasami 1953.

To get angry is but the effort of a moment; but to remain peaceful, to become unaffected by the ups and downs of life, is the result of years of training in Vedanta. - Baba

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - January 30, 2013

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Why have we been given a human birth and what should we always remember even as we live life? Bhagawan explains to us today.

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You have come into the world to realise yourselves. You come fully equipped with all the instruments needed for that endeavour - viveka, vairaagya and vichakshana (discrimination, non-attachment and skill); and the urge to enlarge your love, enrich your emotions and ennoble your actions. But you have lost your way; you are caught in a morass and are confused by mirages and dreams which you take as real; you run after false colours and cheap substitutes. Remember that everything is subordinated to that supreme task. The body should be fed and kept free from disease. Why? So that it may be fit for spiritual discipline. Spiritual discipline for what? For the realisation of the truth about oneself. The subtle is the basis for the gross; the Divine is the basis for the Human.

- Divine Discourse, Feb 20, 1964.

Human life is a combination of morality, spirituality and righteousness. - Baba

Monday, January 28, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - January 29, 2013

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Why should we refrain from ridiculing on the conclusions the other spiritual seekers arrive at? Bhagawan explains to us today.

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The proprietor of a coffee house goes to the nearby druggist for a pill to ward off his headache, but when the druggist gets a headache he goes to the coffee house for a cup of coffee, which he thinks will cure him. Tastes differ according to temperament and the character one has earned by generations of activity in this world. The Jnaani (wiseman) says, ‘Sarvam Brahma mayam’ (Everything is Divinity); another, a yogi, says all is energy; a third, who is a devotee, says all is the play of the Lord. Each proclaims based on one’s taste and progress in the spiritual path. Do not hurry to ridicule anyone, for all of you are pilgrims, walking along the same road.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 1, Dasara 1953.

To evoke the Divine in you, there is no better method than Namasmarana. - Baba

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - January 28, 2013

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What is our true nature? Bhagawan explains by comparing what we think we are with what we really are.

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You are the Formless (Niraakaaram) come in the form of Man (Naraakaaram), the Infinite, come in the role of the finite, the Formless Infinite appearing as the formful infinitesimal, the Absolute pretending to be the Relative, the Atma behaving as the body, the Metaphysical masquerading as the merely physical. The Universal Self is the basis of all being. The sky was there before houses were built under it; it penetrated and pervaded them for some time; then, the houses crumbled and became heaps and mounds; but, the sky was not affected at all. So too, the Atma pervades the body and subsists even when the body is reduced to dust.

- Divine Discourse, Feb 19, 1964.

When the heart is pure, the light of wisdom shines. - Baba

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - January 27, 2013

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How can we treat praise and blame alike? Bhagawan explains as to what we must do in such situations.

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Live with the consuming conviction that you are the Divine Self (Atma). This is the hard core eternal truth. The Atma it is, that sees through your eyes, hears through your ears, works through your fingers and moves through your feet. This true ‘you’ will not be elated by praise or deflated by blame. If someone carps at you, reason out thus within yourself: “Is he or she casting aspersions on my body? Well, why should I be worried then? Or are the abuses being addressed to the Atma? Nothing can affect its purity, or tarnish its glory. So remain calm and unperturbed.” You may ask, what happens then to the strings of abuse? Like the letter sent by post and refused by the addressee, it returns to the sender.

- Divine Discourse, Feb 19, 1964.

Be humble, be calm, be tolerant. Co-operate with all and treat everyone
with courtesy and kindness. - Baba

Friday, January 25, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - January 26, 2013

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Why is it wrong to judge the acts of the Lord? Bhagawan explains and guides us today.

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The Lord’s Grace is like rain - pure water, falling equally and consistently everywhere. However, the same rainwater’s taste gets changed according to the soil through which it flows, and the container which holds it. So also, the Lord’s words are sweet to some, bitter to others. The Lord’s ways are mysterious. You do not know the real reasons behind the actions of the Lord. You cannot understand the motives of another man who like you has intentions, likes and dislikes. But yet, how easily you decide the motives of One who is far above your level! How glibly you talk and judge something that is as strange to you, as atmosphere is to a fish! All you must remember is that God is your eternal companion and watchman – Live with this steady faith in Him, adore Him, and seek His ever comforting creative presence always.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 1, Dasara 1953.

To secure the grace of God one must adhere to right conduct and observe purity in thought, word and deed. - Baba