First Tear

Practice

Prayer has to be united with practice.  You should not pray for one thing and practice another.  Such prayer is only a means of deception.  The words you utter, the deeds you do, the prayers you make must all be directed along the same path.

(Prashanthi Vahini, pg 34)

Turn Around

When any of us get to the point where we feel as if there's no hope and we don't know what direction to take or what's going to work, it's words like "let go and let God" that will pop up as if they were sent by God to get us through.

- Rolonda Watts

Letting go of a troubling thought about what could or might happen can be a challenge.  Perhaps I am giving so much attention to the problem that I cannot possibly see that there is a solution.  However, there is a way to turn from fear and anxiety to faith and peace of mind : I turn from thinking about the trouble to thinking about God.

And what I do after I release a problem is critical to my not taking it back or creating a bigger one : I give it to God for a solution.  As I turn any problem over to God, I also turn my life around.  I open my mind and my life to divine solutions, knowing that they come about through the love, order, and peace of God that is available to me always.

I turn my life around by turning to the light of God.

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

GEM 754

Karma is sadhana when it is done as seva.

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

愛LOVE愛 Speaks - 16

Every Heart

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully 
has left a hopeful impulse behind it 
in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Be Blessed - 31

Q504

Can the correct recital of the mantra and the Name of God produce illumination ?



The correct recital of the Gaayathri Mantra with the orthodox Udhaatta, Anudhaatta and Swarita (modulation of the voice and the higher, lower and even accents) can produce experienceable and authentic illumination, whereas incorrect pronunciation and wrong accent result in thickening of the darkness!  Therefore, instead of scoffing at the disciplines of recitals, meditations, prayers, formulary worship and mantra-utterances, their values have to be accepted and their results tested and confirmed by practice and exercise.

(SSS Vol 8, pg 83)

The Self

India and the world are today suffering from disorder and violence because people have lost faith in the Self (Atma-viswaasa).  They are fostering attachment to the body and ignoring the Spirit.  Man should not follow the senses which are wayward, the body which is perishable, or the mind which is fickle.  He must follow the conscience which tells him what is right and wrong.

(Sanathana Sarathi, August 1995, pg 221)

VEDA 42

Is there any end to the list of worldly goods that you crave for? When you secure one, another starts tantalizing you. If you do not get that, very often, your hold on the Lord too, loosens. If something is lost or stolen from you, you lose faith in Me. I have not come to guard your jewels and your valuables. I have come to guard your virtue and holiness and guide you to the goal.



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