Light Touch

As we use the light we have to the best of our ability, more light comes.

- Marion R Brown

A light, tender touch goes a long way toward comforting someone who is sad or upset.  It soothes and supports; it shines the light of love and caring on them.

I can receive the 'light' touch in any situation that threatens to overwhelm me or causes me to worry or become afraid.  I do this by envisioning the light of God's presence continually surrounding me, bathing me in peace.

Enfolded in God's comforting presence, I realise that I am not alone.  I and everyone I know - even those I don't know - are living in the presence of God.

With each breath, I breathe in the grace of God.  In the light of God's love, I gain a true understanding of my spirituality and receive the assurance that all is well.

I am living in God's radiant light and love.

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

GEM 778

Seva must be viewed as the highest form of sadhana.


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

Sai Jewel - 29

My Very First Vow

My Very First Vow

I do not belong to any place; I am not attached to any name.  I have no 'mine' or 'thine'.  I answer whatever the name you use.  I go wherever I am taken.  This is my very First Vow.  I have not disclosed this to anyone so far.  For Me, the world is something afar, apart.  I act and move only for the sake of mankind.  No one can comprehend My Glory, whoever he is, whatever his method of enquiry, however long his attempt.

You can yourself see the full Glory in the coming years.  Devotees must have patience and forbearance.

(25.5.1947)

(From Baba's letter to His brother, Sheshama Raju)


(Extract from : 'God Lives In Prashanti Nilayam')

The Hands

19. Om Sri Sai Yasahkaaya Shirdi Vaasine Namah

Garland of 108 Precious Gems

Ashtotthara Satha Nama Rathnamala 

19.  Om Sri Sai Yasahkaaya Shirdi Vaasine Namah

Yasahkaaya means 'fame' 'body-fame' and glory, apart from the actual physical form.  Baba is Shirdivasi, He who lived in Shirdi.  Though the form is now different, the fame and the glory are the same, for, the declarations, the assurances, the wisdom, the message, the grace, the manifestations of mercy are all the same.  In the Sathya Sai form, the 'Yasah' or fame is spreading faster and farther; for, now, the new means of communication are being used to the fullest extent.  At Shirdi, Baba said in 1918, "I shall come again after 8 years" and in 1926, He came as Sathya Sai.  Sai Baba appeared in a vision to Gayathriswami at Puttaparthi and told him, "I have come away here, after 8 years in the Samadhi.  I brought all My properties to this place from there, 'fifteen' years later".  Sai Baba brought to Puttaparthi the 'properties', all of them, viz., 'the Yasahkaaya' (viz., the Name, the Gothra, the Sakthi', 'the Jnana' the Lokasangraha Karma) in His fourteenth year, when He announced Himself, as Sai Baba of Shirdi (14 years since Birth and 9 months gestation to be added, to make the fifteen, as Baba has confirmed).

Baba is fast gathering unto Himself the loyalty, adoration and affection of those devoted to the Shirdi-Vasin (that is to say, Baba who was at Shirdi).  While at Shirdi, He was physically in the same place continuously for years; now, He is physically in the same place continuously for years; He is giving darshan all over the world, in His fame-body (Yasahkaaya).

(From : Garland of 108 Precious Gems, 

Ashtotthara Sathanama Rathnamala, by Prof N Kasturi)

THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART (Chapter 5)(Para 7)

Live this life as if it were your last. That means one pointed sincere yearning for the Lord. It means filling yourself with the virtues that please the Lord. The universe is yours, the Lord is yours for the asking, but at this stage, you will no longer 'want'. One basic principle is that whatever you offer to the Lord rebounds and comes back to you - so do not offer Him anger or the negative emotions of frustrations and insincerity, do not offer Him your bad actions. Offer Him only your love from a purified heart and see what miracles abound around you. Offer Him your heart and mind cleansed. Offer Him yourself, that is enough.

(From : THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART by R SAI)

Love And Service

 

Love and service are like a bird's two wings for a man.  He can soar to any heights with those two wings.  To cultivate these two qualities, one has to achieve the triple purity in thought, word and deed.

(Sanathana Sarathi, May 1996, pg 114) 

GEM 777

Seva is the most paying form of austerity, the most satisfying and the most pleasureable; it springs out of love and it scatters love in profusion.

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

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