Sai Jewel - 30

Never Give Up

Beloved 49

Beloved,

You are My precious child.  Let Me fill your mind with the unlimited possibilities that are available to you now.  Listen, and I will reveal how you can use new ideas in exciting ways.

Follow the way I am showing you and discover the wonder of who you really are : My beloved creation.  Nothing will be impossible for you when you learn that you can let go of what is no longer in your best interests.  So let My light shine in and through you, for it will cast a glow of love all around you.

Every hour of every day, you are unfolding more and more of your true identity : a spirit-filled being of life and love.

"Strive for the greater gifts.  And I will show you a still more excellent way."

- 1 Corinthians 12:31

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

Knowledge

Do not respect men who are caught up in the tangle of the senses.  Give respect according to the knowledge each possesses of himself, i.e., of the Immanent and the Transcendent.

How do you fix the price of cane?  According to the sugar content, is it not?  So too, a man is worthy of honor in proportion to the knowledge of the Self he has acquired.  The knowledge alone can confer steadiness and strength.  Without it, all profession of renunciation, all pretense of devotion, all performance of charity are but tongue-deep or skin-deep!

(Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol IV, pg 48)

I Will Never Give Up My Devotees

I Will Never Give Up My Devotees

I have a Task : To foster all mankind and ensure for all of them lives full of Ananda.  I have a 'Vow' : To lead all who stray away from the straight path, again into goodness and save them.  I am attached to a 'Work' that I love : To remove the sufferings of the poor and grant them what they lack.  I have a 'reason' to be 'proud', for I rescue all who worship and adore Me.  I have My definition of the 'devotion', I expect that those devoted to Me have to treat joy and grief, gain and loss, with equal fortitude.  This means that I will never give up those who attach themselves to Me.

(25.5.1947)


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

GEM 793

When duties are discharged properly, rights will be secured of their own accord.

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

20. Om Sri Sai Jodi Aadipalli Somappaaya Namah

Garland of 108 Precious Gems

Ashtotthara Satha Nama Rathnamala 

20.  Om Sri Sai Jodi Aadipalli Somappaaya Namah

On the 26th November 1958, 3 days after Baba's birthday festival, a devotee from Bangalore left Prasanthi Nilayam by car, taking leave of Baba.  On the way, his 2 year old daughter was attacked by 'fits' which became so serious that the child was asphyxiated and it collapsed.  Baba knew this and presented Himself before them as a 'Villager' with two other 'Villagers' whom He created.  He wanted the child to be given to Him and the two comrades supported the demand.  'Give Him; He will cure it.  He has cured thousands', they implored.  The Villager (Baba) told them, "I was busy for the last 3 hours; I just now laid Myself for rest; but I came to know that a child was seriously ill on the road.  So, I ran up!"  He placed the child on His lap and it was cured.  He gave it back to the happy parents.  They offered Him a rupee and when it was refused, they gave Him a fruit from the many that He had Himself given them at the Nilayam while leaving.

They asked Him His name.  He said, "Jodi Aadipalli Somappa".  When asked later at the Nilayam, why He chose that name of all others, Baba said, "I am Somappa, Soma appa (Siva) Sa-uma -- Soma.  The place of My residence is Aadipalli, the primeval village, Kailas.  It is Jodi (belonging to two) because it belongs to Sa and Uma 'Siva-Sakthi', -- the Twin -- Prakrithi and Purusha.  This is, therefore, Baba's most appropriate epithet, selected by Himself, for that profound miracle of grace.  It reveals His truth as "Siva-Sakthi".

(From : Garland of 108 Precious Gems, 

Ashtotthara Sathanama Rathnamala, by Prof N Kasturi)

THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART (Chapter 5)(Para 9)

You can earn the gift of grace, of continuous contact with Him forever if only you will attempt, if only you will try. The secret of this lies in the trying, the secret of trying is to begin to live everyday life in love and communion with God. And you will find the feeling that emerges is unique, one of almost constant bliss. In every thought, word and act, you should seek His approval. In some way, He will voice it and let you know whether He approves or disapproves. Prayer, constant communication and continuous monologue that will soon become dialogue. Ask Him, beg Him to take over your senses, your heart and your mind so completely that there is no you but only He remains. As this is practiced, as time goes by, the attachment to the world, the attachment to the material, the attachment to the physical will slowly disperse, growing weaker and weaker as the bond to the Lord grows stronger and stronger and you will become more in tune and at one with Him.

(From : THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART by R SAI)

Rectify It

Practice

Practice, that is the real thing in spiritual matters.  Scholarship is a burden, it is very often a handicap.  So long as God is believed to be far away in temples and holy places, man will feel religion a burden and a hurdle.  But, plant Him in your heart and you feel light, burdenless, and even strong.  It is like the food basket; when carried on the shoulder, it feels heavy; you are too weak even to carry it.  But, sit near a stream and eat it.  Thought the total weight has not decreased, you feel lighter and stronger.  That is the consequence of taking the food in; do likewise with the idea of God.  Do not carry it on the shoulder, have it "in".

(Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol IV, pg 41)