BREAK THROUGH

"Because God is my guide, I accomplish great things."

What is the secret to any achievement? Is it wanting something enough or deserving something more than another person? No, it is neither.

I experience a true break through to achievement when I move past simple wanting and striving to a powerful belief that I can reach my goals.

I break through the barriers of negative thinking - thinking I can't do something or don't deserve something. I realize that with God as my guide and strength, I can accomplish great things.

Do I want to end some negative habit or begin a positive one? Then I can! I can because I believe in the power of God within me and I let this belief support me in all my activities.

"Jesus said to them, 'Do you believe that I am able to do this?....

According to your faith let it be done to you.' "

- Matthew 9:28-29

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

Memories

Sometimes, our thoughts turn back towards a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powered with flowers, seen but a single time... yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

- Guy De Maupassant -

Be Blessed - 44

Q544

Ganesha is also called Vighneswara?  What is its meaning?



Vinaayaka is also called Vighnesvara as He removes all obstacles coming in the way of devotees who pray to Him sincerely.

(SSS Vol 27, pg 218)

GEM 855

It is not renunciation of action that is required.  Renunciation in action is what is necessary.

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

Symptom

The Divine

Obsessed with worldly desires and forgetting God, man is immersed in misery.  Even devotion is tainted by selfishness.  It does not stem wholly from the heart.  It is only part time devotion and hypocrisy.  All should realize that the Divine is the basis of everything in the universe.  Having evolved from the animal, man should aim at realizing the Divine.  Unfortunately, men today are descending to animality.  As a result, peace and order are vanishing from every sphere of life.

(Sanathana Sarathi, May 1996, pg 113)

VEDA 62

So long as man is attracted by outer nature, he cannot escape the blows of joy and grief, of profit and loss, of happiness and misery. But, if he is attracted by the glory of God within him as well as within nature, he can be above and beyond these dualities and in perfect peace.



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

Sai Jewel - 34

The Avatar Is Full And All Comprehensive

The Avatar Is Full And All Comprehensive

The Avatar appears as any other human being, equipped with body, senses, mind, etc.  But, consider the vast difference in thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc.  The Avatar is the total, the all-comprehensive, the poorna (Full).  The human is partial, narrow, negative.  But, in the human, the Divine exists as the core and can manifest as Bliss.

(12.8.1982)


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