God Loves Me

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

- Mother Teresa

God loves me!  These three little words convey a powerful message that, when spoken aloud or held silently in my heart, infuse me with peace and joy.

Love is a gift from God, and the greatest gift I can give myself is to share the love of God within me with others.  And I want to share the message of divine love with others.

Divine love is the answer to the questions of my heart.  Whatever I seek - prosperity, health, order - I will find.  I have all I need when I know that, out of love for me, God has already given all to me.

God's love for me will never lessen or fade away, for it is an eternal expression of caring by my Creator.

God loves me, and God's love for me is eternal and without limitation.

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

GEM 776

Seva has to be considered as worshipping the form that God has assumed to give the Sevak the chance of worship.

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

Heaven And Hell

The old monk sat by the side of the road. With his eyes closed, his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap, he sat. In deep meditation, he sat.

Suddenly his zazen was interrupted by the harsh and demanding voice of a samurai warrior. "Old man! Teach me about heaven and hell!"

At first, as though he had not heard, there was no perceptible response from the monk. But gradually he began to open his eyes, the faintest hint of a smile playing around the corners of his mouth as the samurai stood there, waiting impatiently, growing more and more agitated with each passing second.

"You wish to know the secrets of heaven and hell?" replied the monk at last. "You who are so unkempt. You whose hands and feet are covered with dirt. You whose hair is uncombed, whose breath is foul, whose sword is all rusty and neglected. You who are ugly and whose mother dresses you funny. You would ask me of heaven and hell?"

The samurai uttered a vile curse. He drew his sword and raised it high above his head. His face turned to crimson and the veins on his neck stood out in bold relief as he prepared to sever the monk's head from its shoulders.

"That is hell," said the old monk gently, just as the sword began its descent. In that fraction of a second, the samurai was overcome with amazement, awe, compassion and love for this gentle being who had dared to risk his very life to give him such a teaching. He stopped his sword in mid-flight and his eyes filled with grateful tears.

"And that," said the monk, "is heaven."

-  Fr. John W. Groff Jr., A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul -

Q513

Does Namasmarana result in vision of the Lord ?



Man's duty is to sanctify his days and nights with the unbroken smarana (recollection) of the Name.  Recollect with joy, with yearning.  If you do so, God is bound to appear before you in the Form and with the Name you have allotted Him, as most beautiful and most appropriate!  God is all Names and all Forms.

(SSS Vol 8, pg 94)

Test

Jealousy And Egoism

If you develop the sense of spiritual oneness of all mankind, the conflicts of today will vanish.  Discord has become ubiquitous.  At the root of all this is the loss of faith in God.  Get rid of jealousy and egoism.  Then you will experience the Divine.

(Sanathana Sarathi, March 1996, pg 61)

GEM 775

Seva brings human beings closer to each other and promotes affection and friendship.

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

Sai Darshan, Part 2 - 55

When you are an infant,
You depend on your parents.
As a young child,
You start to depend on friends and your teachers.
As an adult,
You depend upon the life partner you choose.
And when you are old,
You depend on your children.
You depend on those all your life,
Who are very much
Dependent on something themselves.
In the last moments of your life,
You then turn to Me.
Time is short, body is frail,
You lose physical and spiritual strengths.
Your old habits become very hard to die.
You are not able to find My strength.
Even though I offer to you at all times.
Do not waste your divinity in every life.
Start early in life.
Depend on God !
The nature of God is
To give strength and to give only !
The strength to love.
The strength of truth.
The strength of Dharma.
The strength of peace.
Remember always
God's companionship stays always.
Develop your friendship with Him early in life,
And hold His hand until you leave this body.
He will then carry you the rest of the way.


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

Faith

Living in the Presence of God (Vol I/Pt I - 62)

CHAPTER 62


Silence is the only language that will allow you to communicate with the "divine", at all times! You must maintain an "evenness" in your temperament, not allowing the volcanoes of emotional outbursts to erupt - bringing with it destruction that will consume the present and carry into the future. Yes! Emotions react with no logic, no patience, no compassion, with only a selfishness, that will only bring misery and uproot the peace in you. It is only a coward that reacts with the passion of emotion, crying tears in hysteria, with a language of anger, trying to inflict and blame his pain on others. But does the pain really lessen by reacting in this insane fashion? This self-pity, My dears, will only envelope you in the coffin of constantly being delirious.


You live in a war zone, constantly fearing the "attacks" of others, and you have chosen to react with anger, as your only armor of defense. This "offensive defense mechanism" will not take you far, will never resolve any issue, and will only take a little more of your strength that withholds your mind in peace. Once you have allowed anger to represent you, then it will only be anger that will speak the words for you, it will only be anger that will listen to words of hatred and malice, and it will only be anger that will act as your ambassador to destroy every love that you have known and lived with. Yes! The real you will be lost in the anger, and the anger will falsely take its name as you. No, My child! Do not be ready to give up your identity so easily.


Know that emotions can be controlled - by your simple command of "No"! Do not be teased by your emotions - the one that will be ignored, will eventually tire and will be forced to "retire", forever! Believe Me, in every circumstance you can react with love, with a smile of patience and with the strength to maintain peace, making the enemy's attack futile with the courageous defense that welcomes and endures every attack. Carry with you always the strength of divine will, the peace of humble surrender and the love of a hundred mothers. Bring into you a heart of sacrifice and a spirit of "giving goodness". Let your eyes shed the water of salt with the joy that you are chosen as My ambassador - to speak only with silence, react to another's weakness as your strength to accept, fighting every battle that will make the man in you, God, and walking this life as your last lapse in your journey to reach Me, forever. Let your time be spent only with Me, and with this time, let all your other false identities take their leave, slowly revealing the true name, the true form, and the real life within you. Let the silence of God surround you - the silence that speaks the words of His wisdom, His truth and His glory! Let the peace of His presence be known to you starting now, and always. Reach out, touch His hand, and let His love take away the anger, the tears of frustration, and the shadow of selfishness that you think to be the self - reach out, search within, and touch your hearts with My imprint of permanent love.




- Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan