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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Pearl 39





God has four qualities and it is only when you cultivate them that can you understand them.  They are Prema (love), Soundarya (beauty), Madhurya (sweetness) and Shoba (splendor).  Cultivation of Prema is enough to add unto you, the other three.  When you are immersed in the love for the Divine, immanent in all creation, you perceive beauty everywhere and you experience the acme of sweetness, your mind loses its separate identity and merges in the universal mind in all its splendor.



(Tfd, 29 March '04)

Please Call Me By My True Names



I have a poem for you. This poem is about three of us.  
The first is a twelve-year-old girl, one of the boat  
people crossing the Gulf of Siam. She was raped by a  
sea pirate, and after that she threw herself into the  
sea. The second person is the sea pirate, who was born  
in a remote village in Thailand. And the third person  
is me. I was very angry, of course. But I could not take  
sides against the sea pirate. If I could have, it would  
have been easier, but I couldn't. I realized that if I  
had been born in his village and had lived a similar life  
- economic, educational, and so on - it is likely that I  
would now be that sea pirate. So it is not easy to take  
sides. Out of suffering, I wrote this poem. It is called  
"Please Call Me by My True Names," because I have many names,  
and when you call me by any of them, I have to say, "Yes." 
 
Don't say that I will depart tomorrow -- 
even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving 
to be a bud on a Spring branch, 
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, 
learning to sing in my new nest, 
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, 
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, 
to fear and to hope.

The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death 
of all that is alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing 
on the surface of the river. 
And I am the bird 
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily 
in the clear water of a pond. 
And I am the grass-snake 
that silently feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, 
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. 
And I am the arms merchant, 
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, 
refugee on a small boat, 
who throws herself into the ocean 
after being raped by a sea pirate. 
And I am the pirate, 
my heart not yet capable 
of seeing and loving.

I am a member of the politburo, 
with plenty of power in my hands. 
And I am the man who has to pay 
his "debt of blood" to my people 
dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.

My joy is like Spring, so warm 
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. 
My pain is like a river of tears, 
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names, 
so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, 
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names, 
so I can wake up, 
and so the door of my heart 
can be left open, 
the door of compassion.
 

 ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

DIVINE IS PURE






You are endowed with a pair of eyes, with two ears, but only one tongue. Truth is the life-breath of speech. The ways of the Divine are not easily comprehended. God will not succumb to abuse or feel elated by praise even if the whole world joins in either blame or adoration. When you have the conviction that the Divine is pure and unsullied, you will have no need to worry about any other things.


(SSS Vol XXIII - Chap 21)

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

GEM 411



There is no greater example of Selfless Love than nature.


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

愛LOVE愛 Speaks ~ 3

Q357

How can we cognize Prajna (Constant Integrated Awareness) present in all the constituents of the body and the mind?

One declares “This is my body”. “My” is an expression of “I”. Again one declares : “This is my mind”. Here again “I” is affirmed. “This is my chitta” (will), “These are my sensory organs”. In all these statements, the ‘I’ is repeatedly affirmed in the possessive case. The declaration “this is my body” also carries by implication the meaning “I am not the body”. Similarly, when one says ‘this is my mind’, he affirms that he is not the mind. The use of ‘my’ describing one’s body and mind, etc., means that he is different from the body and the mind… In the body, the mind, the intellect, etc., the Prana-sakthi (the integrated awareness), “I” is present. All these objects have emanated from the infinite “I”.

(SSS Vol 25, Pg 215-216)

Divine Language

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Pearl 38





Dreams are unreal; they are illusory.  Yet, for as long as we are dreaming, the experience appears to be real and valid.  Often in these dreams, we experience such extreme fear, pain or excitement, we awaken and the dream dissolves away.  Thus the dream itself led to the awakening.  So too in the waking dream... the illusory world where every experience is deemed true and valid, the teachings of the Vedas awaken man into Higher Awareness.



(Tfd, 20 Aug '04)

DAILY DISCIPLINE






Devote every day at least five minutes for reciting the Lord's name and a few minutes for rendering some kind of service to the needy and the forlorn. Include in your daily prayers a prayer for the welfare of all people in the world. Do not be engrossed in your own well-being and salvation. Try to lead a life free from ill-will and harm to others. Regard this as a type of spiritual discipline and redeem your lives.


(SSS Vol XXIII - Chap 2)

Monday, March 25, 2024

GEM 410



There can be no human being who is unaware of Love.  The universe is permeated with Love.  Love is beyond description.


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

O LORD, TAKE MY LOVE

O Lord, take my love, and let it flow in fullness of devotion to Thee;
O Lord, take my hands, and let them work incessantly for Thee;
O Lord, take my soul, and let it be merged in One with Thee;
O Lord, take my mind and thoughts, and let them be in tune with Thee;
O Lord, take my everything, and let me be an instrument to work for Thee.

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