Q527

Which is more powerful, Grace or Karma?



If you win the Grace of God, even the decrees of the adverse effect of karmas can be overcome.

(SSS Vol 2, pg 65)

Human Life

I Rest

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

- Rose Kennedy

I have no doubt about some things in life being complete and finished.  I feel confident about moving on to a new home or job, moving forward in a plan or a relationship.

Yet at other times, I may just need to give it a rest, to stop trying to force something to happen and trust that God is moving in a mighty way to bring about a blessing.  This rest allows the situations and relationships to be resolved and refreshed.

And in this time of rest, I listen for divine guidance - the gentle thought that nudges me on in giving more time and energy to something or in calling it 'complete'.  Going through any time of change, I will discover new strength because I am relying on God for the answers to all the questions that come up along my way.

I rest, knowing that God is moving in a mighty way to bless me.

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

Simple Obedience

Do Good

When we saturate the air with sounds full of reverence, humility, love, courage, self-confidence and tolerance, we too, will benefit from them.  Therefore, always do good, see good, remember good and be good.  When you are engaged in finding faults and failings in others, you will be paving the way for developing those faults and failings in yourself.  Dwell on the good in others.  Ideas which are opposed to spiritual tendencies, that narrow the limits of love, that provoke another, or greed that caused disgust - these you have to shut out from your heart.  A devotee (sadhaka) must sublimate such thoughts before they cause an impact on the mind and should concentrate on the very source of the thinking process.  This can be achieved by practicing equanimity, unaffectedness and balance.

(Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol X, pg 71)

GEM 811

Before all creation, 'Aham' alone existed.  That 'Aham' became the many.

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

Blessed Guru Poornima 2026

 

Blessed Guru Poornima to all Sai brothers and sisters...

May every being be happy and be free from suffering.

Jai Sai Ram!

Patience

Courage And Faith

A man was being chased by a tiger. He ran as hard as he could until he was at the edge of a cliff with the tiger in hot pursuit. The man looked over the edge of the cliff and saw a branch growing out of the side of the cliff a few feet down. He jumped down and grabbed the branch just as the tiger reached the cliff. The tiger growled viciously as the man sighed a great sigh of relief.

Just then a mouse came out from a crevice and began to chew on the branch. The man looked down to what was a drop of a thousand feet and sure death and looked to the heavens and yelled out, "Dear God, if you are there, please help. I will do anything you ask but please help."

Suddenly a voice came booming down from heaven, "You will do anything I ask?" it questioned.

The man shocked to hear a reply to his plea yelled back, "I will gladly do anything you ask, but please save me."

The voice from heaven then replied, "There is one way to save you but it will take courage and faith."

The branch began to weaken from the mouse and the tiger was still growling a few feet above the man, "Please, Lord, tell me what I must do and I will do it. Your will is my will."

The voice from heaven then said, "All right then, let go of the branch."

The man looked down to a fall of a thousand feet and certain death. He looked up at the hungry tiger a few feet away and he looked at the mouse still chewing on the branch. Then he looked up at the heavens and yelled, "Is there anyone else up there?"

- Anonymous -

Attachment

Grief is caused, as joy is caused, by the attachment of the senses to objects.  Once you know that you are not the senses or the mind, but HE, who operates the senses and wield the mind, you cross the bounds of pleasure and pain.

(Gems of Wisdom, Suffering, pg 171)