Memories

Sometimes, our thoughts turn back towards a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powered with flowers, seen but a single time... yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

- Guy De Maupassant -

Be Blessed - 44

Q544

Ganesha is also called Vighneswara?  What is its meaning?



Vinaayaka is also called Vighnesvara as He removes all obstacles coming in the way of devotees who pray to Him sincerely.

(SSS Vol 27, pg 218)

GEM 855

It is not renunciation of action that is required.  Renunciation in action is what is necessary.

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

Symptom

The Divine

Obsessed with worldly desires and forgetting God, man is immersed in misery.  Even devotion is tainted by selfishness.  It does not stem wholly from the heart.  It is only part time devotion and hypocrisy.  All should realize that the Divine is the basis of everything in the universe.  Having evolved from the animal, man should aim at realizing the Divine.  Unfortunately, men today are descending to animality.  As a result, peace and order are vanishing from every sphere of life.

(Sanathana Sarathi, May 1996, pg 113)

VEDA 62

So long as man is attracted by outer nature, he cannot escape the blows of joy and grief, of profit and loss, of happiness and misery. But, if he is attracted by the glory of God within him as well as within nature, he can be above and beyond these dualities and in perfect peace.



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

Sai Jewel - 34

The Avatar Is Full And All Comprehensive

The Avatar Is Full And All Comprehensive

The Avatar appears as any other human being, equipped with body, senses, mind, etc.  But, consider the vast difference in thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc.  The Avatar is the total, the all-comprehensive, the poorna (Full).  The human is partial, narrow, negative.  But, in the human, the Divine exists as the core and can manifest as Bliss.

(12.8.1982)


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

24. Om Sri Sai Avathaara Moorthaye Namah

Garland of 108 Precious Gems

Ashtotthara Satha Nama Rathnamala 

24.  Om Sri Sai Avathaara Moorthaye Namah

We have to remember that Baba says that the same God-head that appeared as Sai Baba at Shirdi has now appeared as Himself.  He is not merely the reincarnation of Sai Baba at Shirdi but He is the same Divine source and Power that incarnated as Rama, Krishna and others.  Very often when relating stories of Rama, Krishna and other Divine Manifestations in other lands and climate, Baba can be heard saying, "Only those who have experienced this can relate it"; "This is not found in any book, but it is true".  "I alone know it", etc.  And the stories are authentic and have the stamp of truth.

He is the Moorthy (personality) of all Incarnation.  That is why He is able to grant His devotees the vision of Himself as Rama or Krishna.  He has only to confer on the blessed devotee the eye to become aware.  "Look at Me", He says, and they see Rama or Krishna or Srinivasa or Padmanabha or Panduranga or Ganesa.  "The eye moulded out of matter or the intelligence moulded in the crucible of Maya cannot perceive Me", He says.

At the World Conference of Sathya Sai Organizations in Bombay, He announced, "I do not direct you to worship this name and this form, for I am all forms of God-head, incarnated in this human form".

(From : Garland of 108 Precious Gems, 

Ashtotthara Sathanama Rathnamala, by Prof N Kasturi)