Be Happy - 26

 

God Blesses Me

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

- Christina Rossetti

God, You are the source of my life, of all life, and I give thanks that Your love for me has no limits or bounds.

Every time I look around, I appreciate Your abundance and a multitude of my blessings become evident to me.  No matter where I go, I am always surrounded by Your presence.

You bless me with love - love that fills me and flows out from me to others through a gentle smile, a kind gesture, a friendly word of encouragement.

You bless me with hope - hope that is made even stronger by my faith in Your unfailing presence.  In all that I do, God, I am prosperous, and I give thanks to You.

God showers me with blessing upon blessing.

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

Living in the Presence of God (Vol I/Pt I - 59)

CHAPTER 59


Make the Lord your only reason to think, your inspiration to speak, and your only motivation to act. You must face every change in life staying unchanged, knowing fully, that each change will introduce its own beginning and will only grow to meet its own end. You must be like the wind that gushes its speed along with the thunderous storms, and silently drops its flow, when the storm has cleared.


Attachments are only bound, one day, to change their course. This "binding love", will, one day, inflict upon you its pain of separation. The reality remains that changes are boundless, it is you that fears and stays resistant, bound by selfish love and inexhaustible desires. Learn, My dears, to leave behind that which has walked with you for only a few paces in your life. The child holds the hands of his mother, yet this same child grows to be a young man, will say his sweet good-byes to his mother, and then hold the hand of his beloved for the next part of the journey. Do not obsess and create within your fears of insane love - such kind of insanity results in possessiveness, envy, and jealousy. Each part of life will share with you its own beauty - give in fully, enjoy it to its fullest, and then learn to move on. Remember that you are a traveler who is only seeking temporary refuge - do not let this journey break by your weakness of wanting to stay longer. Your needs will change at every part of the journey - do not make the needs of yesterday, your addictions of today.


All must go, and believe Me, all 'will' go - only God will remain. When you know that to be your end, then you must start at the beginning of your lives, preparing to meet this end. The preparation must be that of God being your only need, your only attachment, your only yearning and your only beloved. All within will be satisfied, O sweet, when "He" becomes the need, all within will be content, when "He" attaches to you; all desires will meet with a response, when "He" is only what you yearn for, and all the love you feel and live to meet will take His form, to give even more and more of you.


The knowledge of accepting change will only come, when you have accepted the real you to be "changeless". The strength to rise with every change will only come, when you have risen beyond the stage of being tied with the ropes of "time". Change is only finite - limited by the parameters of time, but you must know and grow to find that the reality of life that exists in you is infinite and can never be withheld by the hands of the clock. Limitations of change will affect you, only because you have chosen to remain in the ignorance of the self. Once you remain to stay constant, every change will then appear to you as a new way of meeting God's love in another form and at all times. The one hope, one strength, one friend. Yes! One answer to all your changes - God!




- Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan

Blessed Sai Chinese New Year 2026

 

Wishing a most blessed and prosperous Sai Chinese New Year 2026

to all Sai brothers and sisters across the globe.

May all beings be well, be happy and be peaceful.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

GEM 729

When the vision is centred on the Self, the mind fades away.

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

I Am Present

Worldly Happiness

 

I do not condemn worldly happiness.  I feel glad when people are happy.  I want that you should study all the arts and sciences for acquiring worldly happiness.  But, please do not believe that this happiness is permanent.

(Gems of Wisdom, Sai Baba's Directives, pg 454) 

Q494

How does one dwell on the meanings of the Bhajans while singing or participating in them?



When you sing Bhajans, dwell on the meanings of the songs and the message of each Name and Form of God.  Rama - the name should evoke in you the Dharma He embodied and demonstrated.  Radha - the name should evoke in you supramental, super-worldly Love she had as the greatest of the Gopis.  Shiva - the name should evoke the supreme sacrifice of the drinking of the Halahala poison for the good of the world; the cool grace heightened by the cascade of the Ganga and the moonlight from the Crescent.  Do not waste time purposelessly; let every moment be Bhajan.  Know the purpose of Bhajan or Namasmarana and devote yourself wholeheartedly to it; derive the maximum benefit from the years allotted to you.

(SSS Vol 7, pg 67-68)

Simple Charm

The splendour of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, Spring would lose its loveliness.

- Therese of Lisieux

VEDA 37

Man is but an instrument in God's hands; his plans can win through only when they are in line with His. Take things as and when they come. Do not try to peep too far into the future, with the help of astrologers. If you have the grace of God, no planet can harm you.




(From : Sai Veda, The Word of God,  sayings of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)