Prashanti News Updates: February 2015

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - March 01, 2015

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What is the purpose of rituals and yajnas? What is the surest way to attain immortality? Bhagawan explains so we may introspect and internalize the message.

Audio Special:
"Fleeting Moments Lasting Memories - Mrs. Susmita Patnayak"

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H2H Special:
"Photo Gallery: Walk for Values
- 2015 - Delhi-NCR"

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Watch the Live Video Webcast of the Burrakatha Programme by Bhagawan's Students
at 5:30 p.m. (IST) Today on our Website, www.radiosai.org

Watch the Live Video Webcast of the Athi Rudra Maha Yajnam at the Brindavan Ashram
starting at 3:30 p.m. (IST) Today by Clicking Here


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Today whatever good work we undertake in the world is being done in a casual manner without understanding its significance and imprinting its essence in our hearts. In the worldly aspect, we do several things either to attain a high position or reputation, or just for the sake of exhibition or in the hope of some material gain. Such types of effort are temporal and will yield only transitory benefits. Of the many things that we do daily, those intended to attain self-satisfaction are very few. Self-satisfaction will result only when we have confidence in our own Self. When there is Self-confidence and Self-satisfaction, you will be able to do Self-sacrifice, resulting in Self-realisation. Thus, immortality is the result of sacrifice (tyaga). It is for this reason that all the yajnas and other rituals in this country have been intended to symbolise sacrifice. They have a definite purpose of promoting divine strength.

- Summer Showers in Brindavan 1974, Part 1, Ch 13.

When a drop of water falls into the ocean, it achieves immortality and infinitude. - Baba

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - February 28, 2015

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What is the secret to win the game of life? How should we enjoy this game of life? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today.

Audio Special:
"Afternoon Satsang - Is it wrong
to miss Swami - Part 1"

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"When Faith Powers You and Love Strengthens You..."

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When rains come, earth and sky are one in the sheety downpour. It is indeed a beautiful and inspiring scene, an imagery by which creation itself is teaching you to become one with the Creator. Learn three lessons: the impermanence of created things, your role as a servant, and God as the Master. The game called life is played with these - the process of creation, the created, the Creator. Rejoice that the Lord continues to place in your hands newer ways to serve Him and exult in the chance you receive. This attitude will give you immeasurable joy; to lead a life suffused with this joy is indeed bliss. Whatever is done from sunrise to sunset must be consecrated, as if it is the worship of the Lord. Just as care is taken to pluck only fresh flowers and to keep them clean and unfaded, so too, continuous and persistent effort should be made to perform deeds that are pure and unsullied.

- Prema Vahini.

The one with noble qualities of purity, patience and perseverance is verily God. - Baba

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - February 27, 2015

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What is the purpose of this human body? What fault should we avoid? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today.

Audio Special:
"Musings by Prof. G. Venkataraman
- On Desires - Selfishness and
self-interest"

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"Get Inspired: The Definition of Family..."

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People commit the great fault of identifying themselves with the body. They accumulate a variety of things for the upkeep and comfort of the body, even when the body becomes weak and decrepit with age! Can death be postponed? When Yama’s (God of death) warrant comes, all must depart. Position, pride, and power - all vanish before death. Knowing this, strive day and night, with purity of body, mind and spirit, to realise the Higher Self. The body must be preserved as a vehicle for this service. But remember, you are not this body; this body cannot be you! Until the realisation of the purpose for which the human body is given, it is your duty to watch over it vigilantly and protect it from injury and disablement. Just as woollen clothes help withstand the rigour of the cold gales during winter and are discarded in summer, the material body is no longer essential when the cold gales of material life don’t affect you.

- Prema Vahini.

The purpose of ‘living’ is to achieve 'living in God'. Everyone is entitled to that
consecration and consummation. - Baba

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - February 26, 2015

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What do we need to do to get our desires fulfilled? Why should we invest time in understanding the righteous path and the essence of scriptures? Bhagawan explains to us today.

Audio Special:
"Shravanam Mananam Nididhyasanam - Episode 77 - clips from Gurupoornima Discourse 1990"

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H2H Special:
"Photo Gallery: A Procession of
Pure Joy... Reminiscing a
Bygone Blissful Era"

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Watch the Live Video Webcast of the Chinese New Year Celebrations at Prasanthi Nilayam,
Day 3 at 5 p.m. (IST) Today on our Website, www.radiosai.org

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Following the true path of dharma, we will be in a position to receive much more benefit than what is anticipated. On the other hand, if we tread a path different from dharma, then we will find that if we have a thousand desires, not even one of those desires will be fulfilled. One who destroys dharma will in turn be destroyed by dharma, but one who protects dharma will in turn be protected by dharma. Whether it is punishment or protection it can arise only out of dharma. It is only by dharma that we can attain prosperity. We should try to follow the path followed by Dharmaraja (Yudhisthira) at least to a certain extent. Invest time to understand Indian culture, the scriptures (Ithihasas and Puranas) and Vedas and their sacred inner significance. There is no room for cruel and bad ideas, and it is possible for everyone to lead a good and happy life.

- Summer Showers in Brindavan 1974, Part 1, Ch 13.

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Any act that is done with purity in thought, word and deed is Dharma. – Baba

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - February 25, 2015

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What is the best way to have a peaceful, refreshing sleep, every single day? Bhagawan, Our Loving Master, clearly explains to us today.

Audio Special:
"Tryst with Divinity - Conversation
with Mr. Som Bahanda from
Scotland - Part 2"

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H2H Special:
"Gita for Children
- Part 12"

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Watch the Live Video Webcast of the Chinese New Year Celebrations at Prasanthi Nilayam,
Day 2 at 5 p.m. (IST) Today on our Website, www.radiosai.org


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One has only a short span of life on earth. But even in this short life one can attain divine bliss, by wisely and carefully using the time. Two people, same in appearance, ostensibly of the same mould, and also grown under the same conditions, but one turns out to be an angel while the other stays on with one's animal nature. What's the reason for this differential development? Habits, behaviour formed out of these habits, and the character into which that behaviour has solidified. People are creatures of character. To a superficial observer, life appears to be a rotation of eating and drinking, toiling, and sleeping. But verily life has a much greater meaning, and a deeper significance. Life is a sacrifice (yajna). Each little act is an offering to the Lord. If the day is spent in deeds performed in this spirit of surrender, what else can sleep be except total immersion in the Godhead (samadhi)?

- Prema Vahini, Ch 1.

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

Monday, February 23, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - February 24, 2015

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What is immortality? What is death? Bhagawan clearly explains to us today.

Audio Special:
"Talks during the Balvikas alumni
meet at Prasanthi Nilayam
on 3 Jan 2015"

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H2H Special:
"Multi-faith Quiz"

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Watch the Live Video Webcast of the Chinese New Year Celebrations at Prasanthi Nilayam,
Day 1 at 5 p.m. (IST) Today on our Website, www.radiosai.org


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We must clearly understand the meaning of ‘death’ and ‘immortality’. We regard death as synonymous with all kinds of strength in the body being lost. In other words, death is the ebbing away of the life force from the body. If the life force remains in the body forever, we regard that situation as immortality. This is incorrect. To be able to completely identify oneself with the aspect of God and completely forget the aspect of the body is true immortality. If at all times we are totally immersed only in the thought of the body and its comforts, and forget the aspect of Atma, that is death. It is only when we are able to clearly recognise the connection between birth and death that the sacred desire for securing immortality will sprout in us. There is birth and death for the body, but there is no birth or death for the Atma. To be able to understand this eternity of the Atma is the real meaning of attaining immortality.

- Summer Showers in Brindavan 1974, Part 2, Ch 13.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life. Contemplate on God,
who is the Master of all Life. - Baba