Spirituality

You should never divorce spirituality from worldly life.  The cloth in my hand (a kerchief) is spirituality.  It is made up of threads which represent worldly life.  The cloth is there only because of the threads.  If you segregate the threads, there will be no cloth.

(Sanathana Sarathi, May 1993, pg 128)

MESSAGE 17

God is the higher Self of every self. Even though for intellectual purposes we separate this higher Self from the “I” in reality both are one and inseparable from each other.

Most of us fall into ignorance because we are more comfortable with the concept that the “Higher Self” is the “ruler” and the “I” serves the higher Self with its “free will”.

Until that concept of separation exists to realize your Self as God is extremely confusing and fearful. From the time of birth we lean on our mother and father…then in youth upon friends…later on your life mate and toward the end upon the children. We love them…we serve them…still they are the “other” and what we call our “I” is only a bundle of desires…fears identity and experience and that “I” is always searching from freedom from its own self. Even when we love our dear ones we do not feel free. In fact we increase our desires…share our experiences…understand each other’s fears…bind each other and defend our common ignorances.

And then we pray to the Higher Self to come to save us from our own “free will”!!

We fail to realize from the time of our birth that what we have loved all our lives is the love of the mother…the love of our father…the love of our friends…the love of our life partner and the love of our children.

We confuse the love for this love with the identity…the characteristics…the duty…the relationship…the time spent…the desires shared…the fears understood…and the ignorances forgiven. But all of this translates to the Higher Love. Only the wise one realizes that he loved the love of the Higher Self in all the forms that He Himself took while ‘He” also took your very form.

Yes! We are in love with love and loving love as one’s Self is “God”. The “I” is merely a reflection of that Higher Self that takes a form…lives a story and realizes that in his life…his search for love was nothing but a search for his Self…

And that search for the Higher Self must begin today…this very moment. Begin by saying, “I am the ‘Higher Self’ and because I have denied that I have made my own truth a doubt, and that doubt is the ‘I’.”

“Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?” Ask…until the answer is born from within you! Spiritual laziness must go! The truth is right in front of you…above you…below you…behind you and within.Part of the book: 'Inspiring Thoughts'
By Seema M. Dewan
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GEM 766

Service becomes truly meaningful only when it is rendered to the poor and needy.

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

Divine Grace

There in nothing to fear, for you are always and forever in the presence of God.

- Martha Smock

If someone were to ask me what I considered God's grace to be, my answer would come without hesitation : God's grace is the assurance that I am always in the presence of God and now with the eternal love of God.

Grace is the beauty and blessing of each new day - a day to live in oneness with my Creator.  Every opportunity before me is a direct result of grace.

The love and appreciation I feel for God fill me and flow from me to others through the things I say and the actions I take.  I know that God gently guides me in the way I am to go, and I make the choice to listen to and follow such divine wisdom.

Grace is the assurance of God's presence within me and God's love for me.

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

Q509

Can Namasmarana alleviate the burdens of life ?



The Name of God is the most effective tonic.  It will keep off all illness... This one ever-present job will alleviate the burden of all the hundred jobs, make them all lighter and more worthwhile.  Rise every day with the thought of God; spend every day with the Name of God; go back to bed with the thought of His Glory as enshrined in His Name.

(SSS Vol 8, pg 188-189)

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GOOD LUCK OR BAD LUCK?

There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and, when all the farmer's neighbours sympathised with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'

A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbours congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, 'Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?'

Then, when the farmer's son was attempted to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'

Some weeks later the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?

~ Author Unknown ~

God's Grace

Man needs God's grace to experience real happiness.  But by his own thoughts, words and actions, man forfeits the grace of God.  See no evil; see what is good.  But men today look at only other people's faults and do not think of their own failings.  Examine your own faults and rectify them.

(Sanathana Sarathi, May 1996, pg 126)

GEM 765

Serve all with love.  The Divine is both the lover and the beloved.  He is the director of the play.  He is also the actor.

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

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