Best Things In Life

The best things in life are nearest : breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Q510

How should one pursue Namasmarana as a spiritual discipline ?



Do not indulge in Namasmarana as a pastime or a fashion or a passing phase, or as the unpleasant part of an imposed timetable, or as a bitter quota to be fulfilled each day.  Think of it as a sadhana, to be seriously taken up for the purpose of reducing your attachments to fleeting objects, purifying and strengthening you, and liberating you from the cycle of birth and death.  Hold fast to it as the means of rescuing yourself in every way... It has to become as much a must as breathing; as welcome to the tongue as sugar; as essential for happy living as sleep or food or water.

(SSS Vol 8, pg 188-189)

Follow The Conscience

Don't rely on the body.  It is a water bubble.  Don't rely on the mind which is like a mad monkey.  Follow the conscience.  When you follow the conscience with full self-confidence, you can accomplish anything.

(Sanathana Sarathi, October 1993, pg 257)

VEDA 45

Calamity, danger, death cannot be avoided for all the time; they are inevitable factors of life; you have to learn to live bravely with them. This can be accomplished only by uninterrupted prayer.



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

Imagination

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart!

- Edna St Vincent Millay

Changing a blank canvas into a masterpiece or a block of stone into a priceless sculpture takes imagination and creativity.  Yet the people who have produced such treasures had to move beyond imagining in order to do so.  They took the necessary steps to make what they had imagined become a reality.

Imagination opens the door to divinely inspired ideas and awakens me to unlimited possibilities.  So as I envision harmony in my life, I begin to take the necessary steps toward realising that dream.

As I imagine people helping each other, I see the value of teamwork in times of need and the satisfaction received when one creation of God helps another.  What a blessing it is to know that whatever can be envisioned is a possibility!

My imagination opens the door to unlimited possibilities.

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

GEM 768

Service is the highest form of worship and the best penance.

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

Sai Darshan II, Part 1 - Message 28

Sai Darshan II, Part 1 - Message 28

Whatever you give

Most importance to

That alone will remain

In your mind...

That alone will become

Your thought...

That alone will prompt you

What to say and do...

Soon the mind becomes consumed

And to divert it

Becomes an impossibility!

No doubt duty is important.

Work is important.

Survival is important.

But what is more important

Is that you in the midst

Of all these

Must remain peaceful,

Focused, content, fearless

Calm, patient and happy...

That is what is most important.

It is then that

Work becomes a selfless service

Duty becomes worship and

Survival becomes the media of

Self-Realization!

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

Sai Darshan 1 (Universal) - Part 1 - 27

I would like to write a few words of Mine,
On your mind, as if it were an empty page.
A page that reads no names but Mine.
May those names travel and lodge in your heart,
So very deep within.
And after they have made their home in there,
Let them be a part of the lips which pray,
And call Me over and over again:
"Sai, Sai, Sai, Sai, Sai, . . ."

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

Be Happy - 29

 

My First Message : 'Worship In The Mind'

My First Message : 'Worship In The Mind'

WhenI was at Uravakonda studying in the High School, you know I came away one day and threw off my books and declared that I have My Work waiting for Me.  The Telugu Pandit (Scholar) described the incident of that evening to you all in his speech.  Well, that day when I came out publicly as Sai Baba, that first song I taught the gathering in the garden to which I went from the Telugu Pandit's house was : "Maanasa bhajare Guru charanam, Dustara bhav sagar taranam".

I called on all those suffering in the endless round of birth and death to worship the feet of the Guru (spiritual preceptor), the Guru that was announcing Himself, who had come again for taking upon Himself the burden of those who find refuge in Him.  That was the very first Message of Mine to Humanity.  "Maanasa Bhajare" "Worship in the mind" !

(Dussera 1953)                                                                                                                       


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