GEM 815

Body attachment gives rise to ego in man.  Success eludes one who is egoistic.  Egolessness is true humanness.

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

Faith

A 'devotee' wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and 

complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple . 

'I've gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard 

something like 3,000 mantras. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. 

So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving 

services at all. 

This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, 

much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone 

wrote this clincher: I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my 

wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot 

recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know 

this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my 

work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically 

dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I 

would be spiritually dead today! 

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the 

invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! 

Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

- Author Unknown -

Be Blessed - 39

Q528

Does Grace of God confer all one needs?



The most desirable Aishwaryam (prosperity) is Easwara anugraha (the Lord's Grace); that is to say, the most desirable form of wealth is the Grace of God.  He will guard you, even as the eyelids guard the eye.  Do not doubt this.

(SSS Vol 4, pg 264)

The Joy Of Living

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what-next, and the joy of the game of living.

- Samuel Ullman -

愛LOVE愛 Speaks - 20

Final Death

Birth And Death

Man is equipped with a return-ticket when he takes birth.  Holding it in his grasp, he earns and spends, rises and falls, sings and dances, weeps and wails, forgetting the end of the journey.  But, though he forgets, the wagon of life moves towards the cemetery, which is its terminus.  It brings no glory to man if he is tied helplessly to the wheel of birth and death.  His glory and greatness consist in disentangling himself from that revolving wheel.

(Gems of Wisdom, Degradation, pg 145)

VEDA 54

Just as every drop of the ocean has the taste, the composition and the name of the ocean, so too, every single being has the Divine taste and composition and name of the Lord. Only you don't realize it so clearly.



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

GEM 814

Bhaktas should consider the body as the field, good deeds as the seeds and cultivate the name of the Lord.

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