Proper Role

It is necessary that everyone should recognize the proper role of the sense organs and use them properly.

In this context, it may be noted that different animals are victims to different kinds of sensory experiences.  Deer are a prey to sound - the roar of a lion or other wild animal.  The elephant is afraid of the touch of the mahout's goad.  Insects are attracted by light or flame and lose their lives.  Fish are lured by the taste of the worm attached to the angler's hook.  It is a pity that man who possesses all the five senses of perception (sound, touch, sight, taste and smell) is a bond-slave to all of them.  Thereby, he forfeits his freedom.

How then, can man experience real happiness?  Only by turning his senses towards God.  Man has five senses of perception and five senses of action.  The master for all these are like ten wives pulling the mind in different directions.  It is difficult for the mind to control the senses.

Man should realize that all pleasures derived from submission to the senses are momentary and leave a trail of suffering behind.  He should realize that the senses are to be utilized for sacred purposes and the practice of human values.  Only then he will understand the true purpose of human existence.  The senses are gifted by God for humans to lead ideal lives.  See good, think good thoughts, speak sweet words and listen to what is good.  Be good and do good.

(Sanathana Sarathi, November 1997, pg 291)

ANYBODY CAN SERVE

Everybody can be great...

because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have
a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject
and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love.

(By : Martin Luther King Jr)

Divine Thought - 28

GEM 755

Man can be truly human only when he understands himself and others, realize the bond that binds him with society and works with others for the good of all.

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

Love Is Life

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First Tear

Practice

Prayer has to be united with practice.  You should not pray for one thing and practice another.  Such prayer is only a means of deception.  The words you utter, the deeds you do, the prayers you make must all be directed along the same path.

(Prashanthi Vahini, pg 34)

Turn Around

When any of us get to the point where we feel as if there's no hope and we don't know what direction to take or what's going to work, it's words like "let go and let God" that will pop up as if they were sent by God to get us through.

- Rolonda Watts

Letting go of a troubling thought about what could or might happen can be a challenge.  Perhaps I am giving so much attention to the problem that I cannot possibly see that there is a solution.  However, there is a way to turn from fear and anxiety to faith and peace of mind : I turn from thinking about the trouble to thinking about God.

And what I do after I release a problem is critical to my not taking it back or creating a bigger one : I give it to God for a solution.  As I turn any problem over to God, I also turn my life around.  I open my mind and my life to divine solutions, knowing that they come about through the love, order, and peace of God that is available to me always.

I turn my life around by turning to the light of God.

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

GEM 754

Karma is sadhana when it is done as seva.

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