What Life Is About

Life isn't about keeping score. 

It's not about how many friends you have 

Or how accepted you are. 

Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone. 

It isn't about who you have kissed, 

It isn't about who your family is or 

how much money they have 

Or what kind of car you drive. 

Or where you are sent to school. 

It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are. 

Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, 

Or what kind of music you listen to. 

It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown, 

Or if your skin is too light or too dark. 

Not about what grades you get how smart you are, how smart 

everybody else thinks you are, or how smart 

standardized tests say you are. 

Life just isn't. 

Life is about who you love and who you hurt. 

It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposely. 

It's about keeping or betraying trust. 

It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or as a weapon. 

It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. 

It's about starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. 

It's about what judgments you pass and why. 

And who your judgments are spread to. 

It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention. 

It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. 

It's about carrying inner hate and love, 

letting it grow and spreading it. 

But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison 

other people's hearts in such a way that could have 

never occurred alone. 

Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those 

choices are what life's all about. 

- Author Unknown -

Eternal Sai - 35

Broaden your vision. Cultivate the spirit of love. Being endowed with the human form, you must strive to develop human values and not stray away from the path of righteousness. Fill your minds with sublime thoughts and your hearts with divine feelings. Consider the entire society as your home. Only then you will realize genuine unity with all.

(SSS. Vol XXI – Chap 32)

THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART (Chapter 5)(Para 18)

Do not spend time thinking about the world or about your relationships to others. They are all impermanent. They will not last. Pay attention to that which lasts. Follow the conscience for it is above the mind, it is the voice of God. Follow the divinity inside. If the conscience says do, then do. The voice of unchanging truth inside which will lead you to His heart. The world is not your business. It is God's business. You think of God and let God take care of the world. One of the most important ways to achieve a depth of devotion and to improve upon and to expand it, one should relive and re-experience all the divine contacts and experiences you have had with God, anything that is good, that is pure, that elevates the mind, beautiful episodes, only the blissful enriching moments in your life.

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

Sai Darshan, Part 2 - 66

You seem to live a dual life today.
One of which is a pretense to please Me,
And the other is a life you live for yourselves.
The soul within you has only one true nature,
It recognizes God and no one else.
I do not answer to your pretenses,
And I do not interrupt your egotistical way of life.
You seem to want to be happy on one hand.
On the other hand,
You download yourselves with sufferings.
You see your goals in one direction,
But I see you walk in just the opposite.
Stop this lunacy you have developed.
Your soul and mind are both diseased,
And you seem to think that you are the doctor !
Do not be satisfied
With the temporary relief you feel with medications,
Work on completely removing the disease.
You suffer from,
The disease of dwelling on the "I".
Cure yourself from this "I"
And let there be only "Sai ! Sai !"


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

GOD'S WORLD

"I behold the glory of God in my surroundings."

It is amazing how much I can learn about myself when I take the time to appreciate my environment.

Whether I am in the country or in the city, the beauty and diversity of God's creativity surround me and fill me with awe and wonder. I am constantly learning and growing in whatever environment I find myself.

Just a an oak tree stands sure and tall in a high wind, I stand sure in my faith in God. Through my unfailing faith, I know that I can and will overcome any seemingly negative circumstance.

Only God can create something as perfect and unique as a mighty oak tree or as tiny and powerful as an ant. Yet I, too, am an intricate part of God world, for I am created in God's own image.

"In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being."

- Job 12:10

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

Pearl 23

Man is the embodiment of the Divine Atma which is infinite, ever full and indivisible.  However, today, men are filled with Rajas (Passion) and Thamas (Sloth) and are content with merely dealing with objective world.  Their deal is only to amass material wealth and satisfy material needs.  Examine yourself and discover at what level you are by analyzing your desires and activities.  In this way, you can sublimate your thoughts and urges yourself.

(Tfd, 13 Jan '04)

GEM 859

Just as the fire is needed till the rice is cooked, so also the spiritual practices are needed till you realize the innate divinity.

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

God Is There For You

God is there......for you .....

by Seema M Dewan

The Lord silently comes

And lives amongst His children

He declares never His Self

He lives a life of silent miracles.

He changes hearts

Of lead into molten gold

He steps every moment

For you ..

Upon the burning ambers of coal

That hold the past

Where each one must pay

The debt of repentance ....

He crushes the past heat of karma

With the fearless thought and life

That He lives for each of His children

He holds their hand

He carries their faith

He ushers their doubts

He wipes their tears

And enters their breath

When He has come

What past can howl

The gift of devotion

Magically creates

The pure lives for His children

And what was impossible

Even in their dreams

Becomes possible

As they have said Yes to Him

And He has echoed Yes...Yes...Yes. ..

He circles His hand

That contains

The gift

Of liberation

No matter what the past

If the heart is true

And believes

In the love of the Lord

All his past vanishes

And the present appears

With the basket of

Golden values .....

The devotee closes

His eyes

For a moment

And the heaven

Opens its doors

And lo and behold

The children of God

Turn to the angels

That do the work

Of goodness and faith

To serve and celebrate

The life and love

Of their beloved Master

The Lord...their God ...

When the Lord

Is in the heart

Of His children

What can worry do then

The difficult times

Become those of faith

And the moments of joy

Turn to prayers

Of gratitude.

Everything that appeared hard

Becomes easy

The Hand that creates the universe

Places it’s bounties

Upon the head

Of the one that silently

Bows in surrender and humility...

The one that silently

Said Yes....

The power of knowing

That God is with you

In you

Around you

Is the greatest of all

It’s awareness

Can turn

The storms to silence

And bathing

In the presence of

The Supreme Lord

The child can

Turn the times

Of fear

To that of wisdom

And truth.

The mind that speaks

In silence

The word of truth

Is the reflection

Of the Master Himself

That mind can teach

And turn

The lives

Of those

That fear time and destiny.

Always remember

A simple word

Of thanks

To the Lord

Can make you

Bring to you

The Lord Himself

A simple sincere

Gratitude from the heart

Can give to you

The Lords heart itself....

What do you wait for

All is upon your lap

Wash thy heart

With the word

Of thanks ...

The day has risen

You must too

Believe that you are cleansed

As you thank

The Lord

With no thoughts

Other than He

Being always there

For you ......

Good Work

Human Life

Human life is precious, noble and virtuous.  It is a pity human beings do not realize this.  The whole purpose and goal of human life is to know one's true nature.  Forgetting one's true nature, man is caught up in worldly concerns and plunged in misery.

(Sanathana Sarathi, November 1996, pg 284)