Tolerance

Journey Of Life

Many of you have, from immemorial times, had links with the Atmic Self.  This link is unbroken.  It is eternal, infinite.  Such sacred relationships should never be given up.  All should return to the place wherefrom they came.  That is the strident declaration in the Dhagavatham : "It is natural for every living creature to go back to the source from which it came."  You have come from the Atma and you must emerge in the Atma.  Till the goal is reached, you must not treat lightly the sacred journey of life.

(Sanathana Sarathi, November 1996, pg 288)

The Incarnate God Is Not Attached To Body

The Incarnate God Is Not Attached To Body

God too comes with a body, as Avatar, and when He moves about, He seems to be only human as far as one can see.  But there is a fundamental inner difference.  The Incarnate God, the Avatar, is unconcerned.  He has upeksha (indifferent to results).  The ordinary man with the body has apeksha (yearning for the result).  Mamatwa (mineness-principal) is human; Brahmatwa (Brahman-principle) is divine.  You cannot discern the distinction even when you look or listen.  You can understand only by experience.  The Avatar has no wants.  He has no egoism.  He is ever alone in the Brahmatwam.

(12.8.1982)


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

What Life Is About

Life isn't about keeping score. 

It's not about how many friends you have 

Or how accepted you are. 

Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone. 

It isn't about who you have kissed, 

It isn't about who your family is or 

how much money they have 

Or what kind of car you drive. 

Or where you are sent to school. 

It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are. 

Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, 

Or what kind of music you listen to. 

It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown, 

Or if your skin is too light or too dark. 

Not about what grades you get how smart you are, how smart 

everybody else thinks you are, or how smart 

standardized tests say you are. 

Life just isn't. 

Life is about who you love and who you hurt. 

It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposely. 

It's about keeping or betraying trust. 

It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or as a weapon. 

It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. 

It's about starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. 

It's about what judgments you pass and why. 

And who your judgments are spread to. 

It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention. 

It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. 

It's about carrying inner hate and love, 

letting it grow and spreading it. 

But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison 

other people's hearts in such a way that could have 

never occurred alone. 

Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those 

choices are what life's all about. 

- Author Unknown -

Eternal Sai - 35

Broaden your vision. Cultivate the spirit of love. Being endowed with the human form, you must strive to develop human values and not stray away from the path of righteousness. Fill your minds with sublime thoughts and your hearts with divine feelings. Consider the entire society as your home. Only then you will realize genuine unity with all.

(SSS. Vol XXI – Chap 32)

THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART (Chapter 5)(Para 18)

Do not spend time thinking about the world or about your relationships to others. They are all impermanent. They will not last. Pay attention to that which lasts. Follow the conscience for it is above the mind, it is the voice of God. Follow the divinity inside. If the conscience says do, then do. The voice of unchanging truth inside which will lead you to His heart. The world is not your business. It is God's business. You think of God and let God take care of the world. One of the most important ways to achieve a depth of devotion and to improve upon and to expand it, one should relive and re-experience all the divine contacts and experiences you have had with God, anything that is good, that is pure, that elevates the mind, beautiful episodes, only the blissful enriching moments in your life.

(From : THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART by R SAI)

Sai Darshan, Part 2 - 66

You seem to live a dual life today.
One of which is a pretense to please Me,
And the other is a life you live for yourselves.
The soul within you has only one true nature,
It recognizes God and no one else.
I do not answer to your pretenses,
And I do not interrupt your egotistical way of life.
You seem to want to be happy on one hand.
On the other hand,
You download yourselves with sufferings.
You see your goals in one direction,
But I see you walk in just the opposite.
Stop this lunacy you have developed.
Your soul and mind are both diseased,
And you seem to think that you are the doctor !
Do not be satisfied
With the temporary relief you feel with medications,
Work on completely removing the disease.
You suffer from,
The disease of dwelling on the "I".
Cure yourself from this "I"
And let there be only "Sai ! Sai !"


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

GOD'S WORLD

"I behold the glory of God in my surroundings."

It is amazing how much I can learn about myself when I take the time to appreciate my environment.

Whether I am in the country or in the city, the beauty and diversity of God's creativity surround me and fill me with awe and wonder. I am constantly learning and growing in whatever environment I find myself.

Just a an oak tree stands sure and tall in a high wind, I stand sure in my faith in God. Through my unfailing faith, I know that I can and will overcome any seemingly negative circumstance.

Only God can create something as perfect and unique as a mighty oak tree or as tiny and powerful as an ant. Yet I, too, am an intricate part of God world, for I am created in God's own image.

"In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being."

- Job 12:10

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

Pearl 23

Man is the embodiment of the Divine Atma which is infinite, ever full and indivisible.  However, today, men are filled with Rajas (Passion) and Thamas (Sloth) and are content with merely dealing with objective world.  Their deal is only to amass material wealth and satisfy material needs.  Examine yourself and discover at what level you are by analyzing your desires and activities.  In this way, you can sublimate your thoughts and urges yourself.

(Tfd, 13 Jan '04)

GEM 859

Just as the fire is needed till the rice is cooked, so also the spiritual practices are needed till you realize the innate divinity.

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