GEM 819

Contemplating on God with all your heart, chanting His name and surrendering to Him, redeem your lives.

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

Knowledge

Nature

The earth is a caravan where man came and stay for the night and when dawn breaks, one by one, they tramp their different ways.  Kith, Kin are words we use for the attachment to the travelers cultivated in the caravan during the short term of acquaintance.  Husband and wife are like two pieces of wood drifting down a flooded river, they float near each other for some time and when current comes between, they are parted; each must move on to the sea at its own rate and in its own time.  There is no need to grieve over their parting of the two, it is in the very nature of Nature that it should be so.

(Gems of Wisdom, Family, pg 210)

GEM 818

Constant contemplation on the form of the Lord and frequent repetition of His name are the means by which the heart is filled with the Love of God.

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

Liberation

Be Happy - 32

 

Hereafter

 

Do not think of the existence of two entities - this world and the next, here and hereafter.  Realize the hereafter is here; this world is interwoven with the next.

(Gems of Wisdom, What is Realization, pg 269)

LOVING PRESENCE

"The presence of God is with me at all times and in all places."

Whatever challenge I may meet, I do not have to meet it alone. I do not have to go through anything alone, for God is a loving presence that is always with me!

If ever I feel separate from the presence of God, I say aloud or silently, "God is with me now." I affirm this truth again and again until I begin to feel God's loving presence. I affirm this truth until a new realization of my oneness with God sweeps over me.

I remember that I am not alone now, nor will I ever be alone. In the heights or in the depths of experiences, God is with me.

God is with me at all times and in all places.

Wherever I am, God is.

Wherever I go, God goes with me.

Whatever I have to do, God is working through me to accomplish great things.

"You... are in me and I am in you."

- John 17:21

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

GEM 817

Consider the body as a vessel.  Wisdom as a rope and use the vessel to draw the nectar of Divinity from the well of spirituality.

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

Q529

Are inner consciousness and God's Grace the same?



An aspirant might win God's Grace, and the Guru's Grace and the Grace of the devotees of the Lord.  But all this grace would be of no avail if he does not secure also another grace, the grace of his own inner consciousness, his Antahkarana.  Without this grace, he falls in the perdition, for all the rest are of no account whatsoever.

(Prema Vahini, pg 33)