Pearl 54

Only by following the path of love you can experience bliss.  Just as merely reciting the names of dishes cannot appease your hunger, so too, unless you speak sweet words and do sacred actions, you cannot enjoy life's sweetness and be happy.  You are all children of immortality and embodiments of bliss.  It is because you have emerged from bliss that you seek to return to that source, the bliss.  Just as fish born in water cannot live out of water, so does man always crave for happiness, whatever he is and whatever he does.  Man is restless until he returns to this bliss from which he emerged.  True bliss is not found in this world.  Keep your mind always on God - only then will you have peace and happiness.

(Divine Discourse, 27 Sept '98)

CONSEQUENCES OF ACTION

The results of one's actions are realized over different periods of time. In some cases, the results are immediate, as for instance, when one slips and sustains a fall. In some cases, the results occur after a few minutes or hours. For example, the food you take in the morning is digested after two hours. When you sow a seed in the ground, it takes some months or years to grow into a tree and yield fruits. Some fools imagine that they can get away with bad deeds because the consequences are not immediate. But the consequences are bound to occur sometime or other.



(SS, Aug 1995 - Pg 206)

GEM 427

Worldly Love always receives and never gives, spiritual Love gives and goes on giving.

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

Envision Love

When we are in divine love, we can experience it as a tangible force

in which we live, move, and have our being...

And when we're in love, we do everything with love.

- Mala Powers

When I think about all the love I have within me, I realize that I have a lot to give - and I begin by giving forgiveness.  As I forgive, something incredible happens within me.  Love and understanding move through me first to soothe and heal before reaching out to others.

I forgive the ones I love and even the ones I find difficult to love, because I now understand that they were doing the best they thought they could do at the time.  I forgive myself also - for mistakes I have made and for anything I have said or done that I regret.

As I forgive, I envision the love of God radiating from within me and all others.  No person or situation in the universe can resist the power of divine love, and I use that divine power each time I forgive.

God's love within me radiates from me as forgiveness.

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

Future Moments

Sai Darshan II, Part 1 - Message 3

Sai Darshan II, Part 1 - Message 3

If you have

Unconditional love

Then effort becomes

Unlimited.

Within such a one

I am born

As strength

That can never

Be broken or challenged.

The one

That lives

By this strength

Becomes a source

Of hope and confidence

To the

Weak...

To the

Fearful

And the

Desireful.

(Extract from : Sai Darshan II written by Seema M Dewan)

VEDA 404

Having been born from the Atma, man should always contemplate on the Atma. He will become restless and face hardships if he forgets the Atma. He will become restless and face hardships if he forgets the Atma. So, never forget the Atma, the source of your origin. Treat the Atma as the basis of your life. This is the Dharma that man should adhere to. You may occupy positions of authority, you may have wealth and prosperity, but none of them can protect you. Only faith in the self can protect you.



(From : Sai Veda, The Word of God,  sayings of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Q364

Why is it not possible to describe the glory of God?

The glory of God cannot be described in words. Man describes Him on the basis of his own imagination. Truly speaking, God is beyond all definition. Man, however, tries to know God by various types of Pramanas (proof) in this world.

(SS Feb 2003, Pg 50)

Sai Darshan 1 (Universal) - Part 1 - 1

I have come to answer all your questions. 

All will be answered at the right time. 

When the time is right 

The event itself will be your answer. 

Look at this window. 

It shows day as day and night as night. 

If you pull this blind down 

You cannot make night day and day night. 

So pull up that blind. 

I have come to help you to do that. 

I will show you day as day and night as night 

And accept it. 

You work in the day time and sleep at night. 

You cannot sleep in the day time and work at night. 

Everything is done when the time is right. 

 From : 'Sai Darshan' - Part I 

(Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan)

Pearl 53

Sandalwood gives more and more fragrance when it is subjected to more and more grindings.  The sugarcane yields juice as it is chewed more and more.  Gold gets refined when it is melted in the fire.  So also a true devotee will not falter in his love for God even when he faces troubles and mistakes in his life.  God tests his devotees only to take them to a higher level on the spiritual ladder.

(SSS Vol 26, Ch 138)