Prashanti News Updates: August 2013

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - September 01, 2013

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What is the one 'culture' we must not engage in and be very alert to drop? Bhagawan explains this to us today.

Audio Special:
"Love to Love - a musical selection on Awareness - first aired live on Thursday - 8 Nov 2012"

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"Crazy for Krishna
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Be careful to not engage yourself in Iccha Krishi (the cultivation of wants and desires). This is a never ending process of sowing and reaping, you will never reach contentment. For, one desire, when satisfied will fan the thirst for ten more. Be warned! Do not run after devious desires or crooked satisfactions. All roads leading to the realm of the senses are tortuous and blind. Only the road that leads to God is straight. Cultivate straightforwardness (Neethi) in your every act. That will reveal the Divine in due course. It will also enable you to overcome your three Gunas (Rajas, Sathwa and Tamo). Just as you grind chilly, salt and tamarind to get a tasty dish, you must grind all the three Gunas so that the taste of Ananda (bliss) emerges.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 12, 1959.

Bend the body, mend the senses and end the mind – make this your endeavor. - Baba

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 31, 2013

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What is the best way to add life to our years rather than merely years to our life? Bhagawan gives us a simple yet powerful message today.

Audio Special:
"Service in the Name of Sai - Sri Sathya Sai Tribal Development Program"

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"Sai Alumnus Wins Top Young Leader Award - Conversation with Mr. Sohan Dutta"

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An old grandfather of seventy was asked by his seven-year old grandchild, "Grandpa! How old are you?" and the old man replied, "Two!" The child was struck with wonder and looked a picture of doubt. The old man replied, "I have spent only the last two years in the company of the Lord, until then I was plunged in the marshland of pleasure seeking." Only the years that you have lived with the Lord have to be counted as life, the rest are not worth counting. Know that all this wealth, property and fame are but for a fleeting moment. Develop attachment for the Lord, who will be with you wherever you go.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

Minimize your tendency to discover or discuss the evil in others, for the attempt will tarnish your own minds. - Baba

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 30, 2013

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Why is it detrimental to mock or denounce a form of God that others worship? Bhagawan lovingly explains and cautions us today.

Audio Special:
"Shravanam Mananam Nidhidhyasanam - Episode 7 - Discourse delivered on 21 May 1990"

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"Sathya Sai Speaks: The Grand Essence of Krishna's Advent"

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Engage yourself in spiritual discipline, spiritual thoughts, and spiritual company. Forget the past and let it go its way. At least from now on be determined to save yourself. Never yield to doubt or unsteadiness. Have faith in any one Name and Form that appeals to you. If you revere one form of God and hate another, the net result is zero. God will not tolerate the slightest hatred of any Name or Form. Avoid factions, quarrelling, scorning and fault-finding, as they reveal your ignorance and actually recoil on you. You find fault in others, because you have the same faults in you. If you throw contempt at the form of God that another reveres, the contempt falls on your own God. Remember, everyone is a pilgrim towards the same goal. Some take one route, others take another.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

Just as air or water assumes the form of the container in which it is kept, God acquires the form in which the devotee worships Him. All forms are His. - Baba

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 29, 2013

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What is the role of scriptures and spiritual texts in the life of an aspirant? Bhagawan explains to us today, so we may derive the right benefit from these works.

Audio Special:
"Tryst with Divinity - Conversation with Mr. V.S.R. Murthy - Part 1"

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Scriptures are only road-maps; at best they are guide-books that give directions for the destination. It is the actual journey that will reveal the hardships, the delays, the land-slips, the potholes as well as the beauty of the scenic route on the way, and the magnificence of the destination. No secondhand account can equal the firsthand experience! The symbols on the map are interpreted differently by different scholars according to their preconceived notions, predilections and pet theories. If you acquire Love, then you can dispense with the Scriptures; for the purpose of all the Scriptures is just that: to create the feeling of Sarvajana samaana prema (equal love for all), and to negate egoism which stands in the way. Reason too, if it comes in the way of this love, is to be discarded as 'perverted'.

- Divine Discourse, April 12, 1959.

Serve man until you see God in all men. - Baba

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 28, 2013

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What is the one thirst we must all strive for and why? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today, so we may all receive grace in abundance.

Audio Special:
"Krishna Tatva Darshanam
- drama by Bhagawan's students
- 14 Jan 2013"

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H2H Special:
"Prasanthi Diary: Aug 14, 2009 – Krishnastami Celebrations in the Divine Presence"

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Thirst for Krishna, to see Him, to hear Him, to listen to His Flute, for installing Him in the heart and mind, and for grasping His reality through the intellect - this thirst is most conducive to peace and joy. Devotion to Krishna is the chain by which the monkey mind can be fastened and subdued. The word Krish means to attract (as in aakarshana). Lord Krishna attracts your mind towards Him and turns them away from sensory desires that torment you. He satisfies the deepest thirst of all beings, for peace, joy and wisdom. Hence thirst for Krishna is a sign of health in the spiritual field. Repetition of the name Krishna is useless, unless the contemplation of the Glory of Krishna starts purifying your character. The Grace of the Lord is very powerful and is endowed on the deserving alone. Hence begin today to sublimate your character saturated with piety and devotion. Then you will secure the Grace of the Lord.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 6, Ch 24.

Purity attracts Divinity. If the iron filings are rusted, even the most powerful magnet
will not attract them. - Baba

Monday, August 26, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 27, 2013

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Having come in contact with the Lord, what should our endeavour be in life? Bhagawan answers by reminding us of the rare fortune that has come our way.

Audio Special:
"Talk by Mr. Sanjay Sahni - Principal, Brindavan campus of SSSIHL - 4 May 2004 during the Buddha Poornima celebrations at Brindavan"

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H2H Special:
"His Biggest Manifestation for Me...His Love - An Interview with Prof. Anil Kumar"

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Never get shaken in your mind, never let your faith waver or decline. That will only add to the grief you already suffer from. Make it your vow to be steadfast in your faith. Whoever is your chosen deity - Shiva, Devi, Krishna, Allah, Baba or Jesus, hold on to them tight! Do not lose the contact and the company, for it is only when the coal is in contact with the live embers, that it can also become a live ember. Cultivate nearness to Me in the heart and you will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of the Supreme Love. This is a great chance. This chance will not come your way again, beware of that. If you cannot and do not, cross the sea of grief now, taking hold of this chance, when again can you get such an opportunity? Indeed you are very fortunate.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 10, 1964.

Worship with faith and you will experience Grace. Faith results in Grace, without your being aware of it! - Baba

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - August 26, 2013

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Why should we tame our instincts and reason systematically? Bhagawan explains to us today.

Audio Special:
"Love to Love - a musical selection on Awareness - first aired live on Thursday - 1 Nov 2012"

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"The Might to Follow the Right - at the cost of money, position, power or whatever"

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The demon Bhasmasura, through God’s Grace earned the power to turn into ash anyone by placing his hand on their head. However his instincts were not tamed, his reasoning was not purified. Blinded by greed and egoism, he tried to reduce the very Giver of the gift. Hence, unless you are extra careful to examine the very process of reasoning, even while the process is on, there is a big danger that you may be following only the trail that you yourself have laid down. Reason can be tamed only by discipline; through compassion, calmness, forbearance and endurance (Daya, Shantham, Kshama, and Sahana). Train your mind to walk quietly along small stretches of road at first and then after you have become sure of its docility, you can take it along safely down the tortuous road of the sixfold temptations of lust, anger, greed, delusion, pride and jealousy.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 12, 1959.

Purify the mind by starving it of the bad food it runs after, namely objective pleasures, and feeding it on the wholesome food, namely, thought of God. - Baba