Q495

Does singing of Bhajans lead to winning the grace of God ?



If Bhajan is sung in a sweet voice, people will be drawn towards the Lord.  Gradually, it will develop into the Love for God, and His Grace will follow in due course.  One should patiently wait for the Grace.

(Prashanti Vahini, pg 18)

GEM 731

Whenever a desire arises in mind, one should exercise the power of discrimination and decide whether it is good or bad.

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

Miracle Of Healing

The Intelligence

The intelligence that has been given to you so that you may understand who you are is being used to understand the rest of the world and not yourself.

If the intelligence that has been given to you for the purpose of introspection and search of your atma is used to procure food, there is no meaning to your life.  Even the birds and the animals are searching and procuring food.  It is a shame to be born as a human being just for the sake of getting food to eat.  If a mirror that is given to you to look at your own face is used to see the faces of others, how are you going to know your own face?

God has gifted this intelligence to you so that you may be able to understand yourself and to realize your own true nature.  Make an attempt in the first instance to find out who you are.  It is this esquire that will automatically become the esquire of self and lead to questions like who am I?  Am I this body?  Am I this mind?  Am I this intelligence? etc.

When you examine each of these questions, you will realize that you are none of these.  For example, you say, "It is my body."  When you say that, you imply that you are separate, the body is separate and that you are not the body.  This truth must be understood by you.  If I take this as my kerchief, the kerchief can be thrown away at any time and I can become quite separate from the kerchief.  When you say that this is my body, my mind, my intelligence and so on, it simply means that you are different from the body, the mind and the intelligence.  You are in the body, you are in the mind, you are everywhere, but they are not in you.  They belong to you but they are not the same as you.

(Summer Showers in Brindivan, 1977, pg 33)

Lazy Mind

Sai Darshan II, Part 1 - Message 25

Sai Darshan II, Part 1 - Message 25

Conflicts arise

Only due to differences

In desire...

To mend a conflict

One has to bend

Toward peace

And one has to unite himself

With the love

Of his inner spirit

And with the voice of God.

(Extract from : Sai Darshan II written by Seema M Dewan)

GEM 730

When thoughts are reduced, the mind naturally comes under control, like a clock that is unwound.

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

Sai Darshan, Part 2 - 49

When a white paint is added to a black paint,
The black lightens to a dark grey.
When more white is added to the dark grey,
It turns to a lighter shade of grey.
As more white is added, the black in it diminishes,
And it comes to a point, the black becomes white.
In the same way, consider Me to be the white paint,
And you being the black paint.
With every little of Me added to you,
Your dark karmas begin to lessen,
And your true nature slowly begins to reveal.
The more you add Me into your life,
The impurity diminishes,
Leaving you more pure each time.
At a point, all the black will be transformed to white.
And all the "Myness" will merge into the "Oneness".


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

A Good Doctor

Science

One must give a shape to one's life in such a way that one earns the grace of God.  We should follow a sacred path.  Having been born, we should do all that is necessary to see that we are not born again.  When we meet our death, we should not meet it a second time.  This is indeed the secret of man's life.  But today, in man's life to the extent to which the knowledge of science has grown, to that extent the strength of man has become less.  As science has progressed, the sense that is present in human beings has become less and less.  What you call Science can give you material pleasure but it cannot give you any bliss of self.  Spirituality leads you to the aspect of completeness.  Every human being must realize this completeness of the total knowledge contained in spirituality.

(Baba, The Breath of Sai, pg 227)