Contentment

Divine Destiny

Today, men have invented many types of machinery by their experiments and researches.  Science has been pursued with relentless energy.  But, being unable to experience peace or happiness, they have become strangers to both.  Despite his acquiring the sacred human birth, man is immersed in the pursuit of transient worldly pleasures, forgetting his Divine destiny.  Concentrating on scientific investigations, inventing all kinds of mechanical gadgets, man is content to lead a proud but purposeless life.



(Sanathana Sarathi, March 1994, pg 57)

VEDA 61

Just think of this for a while. You have come in this body, in this receptacle in order to realize the God you really are. This body is the cocoon you have spun around yourself by means of your impulses and desires. Use it while it lasts, to grow wings, so that you can escape from it! You come into this world crying, announcing your grief at being thrust into it, grief for having lost the hold on God. Having come with grief, decide not to go with it, from here. Get rid of it in this life itself.



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

Sai Gem - 34

BODY TEMPLE

"The life of God illumines and enlivens my body."

The very life of God pulses through me, cleansing, renewing, and rebuilding me.

My body is a temple of God, for the presence and power of God dwell within it. As keeper of that temple, I eat nourishing food, get needed rest, and replenish the liquids that maintain a life-giving flow during all activity.

I praise all adaptability and responsiveness that allow my body to adjust quickly to changing circumstances, time zones, and climates. The life of God illumines and enlivens my body.

I am grateful for my body's ability and agility. I have a reserve of strength when extra effort is needed. As one of God's beloved creations, I express health, wholeness, joy and vitality.

"If then your whole body is full of light...

it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays."

- Luke 11:36

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

GEM 849

If one gets on hopping from one swami to another, from one form of worship to another, he will never experience the Love of the Divine.

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

Ultimate Charity

Ideal Path

In life, everything has to be governed by restraints.  These restraints should be for the purpose of directing life in the ideal path.  Men desire the fruits of good deeds without doing good deeds and want to avoid the consequences of bad actions while indulging in them.

(Sanathana Sarathi, December 1995, pg 317)

GEM 848

If one desires to earn the love of the world, he has to get rid of his egoistic pride, Ahamkara - 'I am the doer'.

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

Power Of Will