Prashanti News Updates: June 2015

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - July 01, 2015

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What is the necessity of spiritual practices, in the present times? What are the traits of a spiritual aspirant? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.

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The spiritual aspirant should note the distinction between the conduct of the ordinary (sahaja) person and the spiritual aspirant. Rice in its natural state and boiled rice —can these two be the same? The hardness of natural rice is absent in the boiled one. The boiled grain is soft, harmless, and sweet. The unboiled grain is hard, conceited, and full of delusion. Similarly both types of individuals are souls (jivis) and humans, no doubt, but those immersed in external or multiplicity based illusions (avidya-maya) are ‘people’, while those immersed in internal or knowledge based illusions (vidya-maya) are ‘spiritual aspirants’. Though the Lord is situated in every heart, spiritual practice is necessary so that they may discover it for themselves, right? It isn’t possible for us to see our own face! We need a mirror! So too, a basic path, a spiritual practice, is necessary.

- Prema Vahini Ch 59.

Just as fire is needed till the rice is cooked, so too, spiritual practices are necessary until you realize your innate Divinity. - Baba

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - June 30, 2015

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How can we make this precious life worthwhile? Our Loving Master shows us the way.

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Discarding the path and wasting one’s life is an insult to the very name of the species! Instead of getting enslaved to the evanescent and the false, and wasting precious time in their pursuit, dedicate every minute to discovering truth and contemplating on the everlasting, ever-true Lord. Such dedication is the real function of the soul. On the other hand, spending time in illusory appetites is the drag of the world. One shouldn’t fall victim to the poisonous attractions of worldly luxuries or the wiles of seductive beauty. One day, all these fascinating scenes will vanish as a story unfolded in dream! The characteristic of a spiritual aspirant is the attainment of truth, not the search of the unreal in this evanescent world. In this false world, there can be no true living (sathya-achara). There can be only false living (mithya-achara). True living consists in the realisation of the Lord. This must be borne in mind by everyone every moment of their life.

- Prema Vahini Ch 58

Selfless Love alone can dispel the darkness of ignorance. - Baba

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - June 29, 2015

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How can we get divine help easily, given our daily situation, circumstances and challenges? Bhagawan lovingly gives us valuable tips today.

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Embodiments of love! Where the six qualities of zeal, determination, courage, intelligence, ability and heroism are present, there Divine help will manifest. In any field, at any time, success is assured to the person endowed with all these six precious qualities. They help you confront various difficulties from time to time and contribute to your all-round well-being. Just as a student must pass various tests and examinations, these qualities are also subject to trials. Such trials are your stepping stones to high achievements. These trials come in the form of losses, troubles, pains, sufferings and calumny. Unfortunately, many students and elderly alike, lack self-confidence and have become a prey to peacelessness because of their involvement in sensual pleasures. Youth, students and everyone must develop self-confidence. In fact, self-confidence should be the life-breath of every person. Develop self-confidence and embark on the journey of life with faith in God.

- Divine Discourse, 23 Jan 1997.

Fortitude endows you with self-confidence. Self-confidence generates
an immense internal power. - Baba

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - June 28, 2015

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How can controling our external tendencies and habits lead us to control the internal thoughts and tendencies? Bhagawan explains with a simple example.

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External control helps internal control in many ways. To succeed in external controls is more difficult than to achieve success in controlling the internal! A turn of the steering wheel in one's hand in any direction makes the wheels of the car, which are not in one's hand, move in the same direction. The wheels won't turn in one direction when the steering is turned in another; this is the natural. But sometimes, when the steering is turned one way, the wheels may drag another way, but this is due to the giving up of the natural characteristic. The internal wheels, if they have no air, which is the true essence, may behave as if there is no relationship with the steering. But they can't go beyond the bounds of steering; the steering in the hand is related to the wheels below. If there is no such relation, the journey becomes impossible. Therefore for the one who has struggled with and conquered the external tendencies, the internal tendencies become easily controllable.

- Prema Vahini, Ch 53.

Cool comforting conversation is most congenial to the aspirant; this habit will
take him to the goal. - Baba

Friday, June 26, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - June 27, 2015

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What are the characteristics of a true aspirant? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today.

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Aspirants are engaged in contemplation of the Lord (Sarveswara-chinthana) as ceaselessly as the waves of the sea; they accumulate the wealth of equality and equal love to all, and are content in the thought that all is the Lord’s and nothing is theirs. Unlike the regular person, the spiritual seeker won’t easily bend before grief or loss, anger or hatred or selfishness, hunger, thirst or fickleness. One should master all the above good things as much as possible and journey through life in fortitude, courage, joy, peace, charity, and humility. Realising that tending the body is not all-important, one has to bear even hunger and thirst patiently and be engaged uninterruptedly in contemplation of the Lord. Quarreling at every tiny little thing, losing one’s temper, becoming sad at the slightest provocation, getting angry at the smallest insult, worried at thirst, hunger, and loss of sleep — these can never be the characteristics of an aspirant.

- Prema Vahini, Ch 59.

Cool comforting conversation is most congenial to the aspirant; this habit will
take him to the goal. - Baba

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - June 26, 2015

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What must we do to get the best value out of this birth? Bhagawan lovingly exhorts us today.

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This human birth is the consequence of countless good deeds, and it should not be cast aside; the chance must be fully exploited. As the Kenopanishad says, “This present precious life should not be thrown away (Na Chath Iha Avedheen Mahathee Vinashtih)". When there are many chances of saving oneself, isn’t it a big loss if no thought is spent on ways of escape? The Kathopanishad exhorts, "Arise, awake! (Uttishthata! Jagratha!)." Those who are agitated by doubts about what to accept and what to reject, those who are blinded by illusion, and those who cannot distinguish between darkness and light, death and immortality —all these should approach great people who can show the path to understand the eternal truth, the self-illumined basis of all creation. Then both this world and heaven will be merged in the same effulgence! For the sake of this realisation, you should have deep yearning and hard, disciplined practice.

- Prema Vahini, Ch 57.

The root is education and the fruit is virtue. Awake, arise and stop not till the
goal is reached. - Baba