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

Q512

Is Namasmarana a sure instrument to realize the Lord ?



Namasmarana is an instrument to realize the Lord.  Thyagaraja started the Nama-japa of Sri Rama in his 20th year; he recited it 96 crores (960 million) times, and took 21 years and 15 days for the vow to be finished.  As a result, he had the darshan (vision) of Sri Rama, "the letters of the Name taken shape", he says.  The Name signifies the quality of the Lord, his guna, and so constant contemplation arouses the same guna in the reciter.

(SSS Vol 5, pg 249)

Atmic Principle

Because of the differences in external forms, you are victims of the ignorance of your true selves.  From a pauper to a millionaire, from an ignoramus to a great scholar, irrespective of whether one is a male or female, young or old, anyone, when describing one's self, uses the term "I".  The principle of "I" is the Atmic Principle.

(Sanathana Sarathi, December 1997, pg 309)

VEDA 46

A smile is the rose that grows on the thorn of a sigh. Shed tears but, only for joy, joy that you are released from the chain of desire.



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

GEM 773

Service will become meaningful when it manifests love that issues from sacrifice.

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

Bend