GEM 775

Seva brings human beings closer to each other and promotes affection and friendship.

(From : Garland of 1008 Gems, Bhagawan Shri Sathya Sai Baba's Sayings)

Sai Darshan, Part 2 - 55

When you are an infant,
You depend on your parents.
As a young child,
You start to depend on friends and your teachers.
As an adult,
You depend upon the life partner you choose.
And when you are old,
You depend on your children.
You depend on those all your life,
Who are very much
Dependent on something themselves.
In the last moments of your life,
You then turn to Me.
Time is short, body is frail,
You lose physical and spiritual strengths.
Your old habits become very hard to die.
You are not able to find My strength.
Even though I offer to you at all times.
Do not waste your divinity in every life.
Start early in life.
Depend on God !
The nature of God is
To give strength and to give only !
The strength to love.
The strength of truth.
The strength of Dharma.
The strength of peace.
Remember always
God's companionship stays always.
Develop your friendship with Him early in life,
And hold His hand until you leave this body.
He will then carry you the rest of the way.


From : 'Sai Darshan' - Part II
(Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan)

Faith

Living in the Presence of God (Vol I/Pt I - 62)

CHAPTER 62


Silence is the only language that will allow you to communicate with the "divine", at all times! You must maintain an "evenness" in your temperament, not allowing the volcanoes of emotional outbursts to erupt - bringing with it destruction that will consume the present and carry into the future. Yes! Emotions react with no logic, no patience, no compassion, with only a selfishness, that will only bring misery and uproot the peace in you. It is only a coward that reacts with the passion of emotion, crying tears in hysteria, with a language of anger, trying to inflict and blame his pain on others. But does the pain really lessen by reacting in this insane fashion? This self-pity, My dears, will only envelope you in the coffin of constantly being delirious.


You live in a war zone, constantly fearing the "attacks" of others, and you have chosen to react with anger, as your only armor of defense. This "offensive defense mechanism" will not take you far, will never resolve any issue, and will only take a little more of your strength that withholds your mind in peace. Once you have allowed anger to represent you, then it will only be anger that will speak the words for you, it will only be anger that will listen to words of hatred and malice, and it will only be anger that will act as your ambassador to destroy every love that you have known and lived with. Yes! The real you will be lost in the anger, and the anger will falsely take its name as you. No, My child! Do not be ready to give up your identity so easily.


Know that emotions can be controlled - by your simple command of "No"! Do not be teased by your emotions - the one that will be ignored, will eventually tire and will be forced to "retire", forever! Believe Me, in every circumstance you can react with love, with a smile of patience and with the strength to maintain peace, making the enemy's attack futile with the courageous defense that welcomes and endures every attack. Carry with you always the strength of divine will, the peace of humble surrender and the love of a hundred mothers. Bring into you a heart of sacrifice and a spirit of "giving goodness". Let your eyes shed the water of salt with the joy that you are chosen as My ambassador - to speak only with silence, react to another's weakness as your strength to accept, fighting every battle that will make the man in you, God, and walking this life as your last lapse in your journey to reach Me, forever. Let your time be spent only with Me, and with this time, let all your other false identities take their leave, slowly revealing the true name, the true form, and the real life within you. Let the silence of God surround you - the silence that speaks the words of His wisdom, His truth and His glory! Let the peace of His presence be known to you starting now, and always. Reach out, touch His hand, and let His love take away the anger, the tears of frustration, and the shadow of selfishness that you think to be the self - reach out, search within, and touch your hearts with My imprint of permanent love.




- Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan

All In You

Truth, Righteousness and Peace are all in you.  You are the embodiment of Truth, Peace, Love and God.  Recognize this fact.

(Sanathana Sarathi, January 1996, pg 26)

Beloved 47

Beloved,

You know the joy of letting My love live through you.  Now you will never be satisfied in being anything less than an expression of love in the world.  What a blessing you are!

You grow stronger and more confident each time we spend time together.  Attentive to My voice, My guidance, you are alert to and follow through on the slightest stirring of a divine idea in your mind.

With every prayer, every life-affirming thought, you send a message of healing and renewal to the very cells of your body.  You are ready and able to do truly magnificent things.  Just as you have faith in Me, beloved, I have faith in you.

"We walk by faith, not by sight."

- 2 Corinthians 5:7

(From : 'Daily Word' magazine by Silent Unity, a world wide prayer ministry) 

GEM 774

Seva and love can alone help transform man into God.

(From : Garland of 1008 Gems, Bhagawan Shri Sathya Sai Baba's Sayings)

Solitude

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth

Must borrow its mirth,

It has trouble enough of its own.

Sing, and the hills will answer;

Sigh, it is lost on the air;

The echoes bound

To a joyful sound,

But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure

Of all your pleasure,

But they do not want your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all;

There are none to decline

Your nectared wine,

But alone you must drink life's gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;

Fast, and the world goes by;

Succeed and give,

And it helps you live,

But it cannot help you die.

There is room in the halls of pleasure

For a long and lordly train;

But one by one

We must all file on

Through the narrow aisles of pain.

~ Ella Wheeler Cox ~

Race

Be Alive

Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth... Be alive to... goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God, and eternal hope.

- Maltbie D. Babcock