Q508

What is the value of the Divine Name ?



You are playing marbles with the Name of God, unaware of its value.  Once you realize the worth of the Name of God, you will keep it in your heart of hearts as the most precious treasure.  Know that the Divine Name is the key to illumination and liberation...

The Name undoubtedly brings the Grace of God.  Meerabai, the Queen of Rajasthan, gave up status and riches, fortune and family and dedicated herself to be the adoration of the Lord, Giridhara Gopala.  Her husband brought a chalice of poison and she was ordered to drink it.  She uttered the Name of Krishna while she drank it; it was transferred into nectar, by the Grace the Divine Name evoked!

(SSS Vol 8, pg 89-90)

Removal Of Ego

All religions teach one basic discipline; the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.  Every religion teaches man to fill his being with the glory of God and evict the pettiness of conceit.  Foster love, live in love, spread love; that is the spiritual exercise which will yield the maximum benefit.  God has a million names; sages and saints have seen Him in a million forms, they have seen Him with eyes closed and eyes open.

The human body, so filled with skills, so capable of great adventures, is a gift from God to each of you.  It has to be used as a raft on which you can cross this never calm sea of change that lies between birth and death, bondage and liberation.  Pursue nobler ends; have grander ideals; sensory pleasures are trinkets, trivialities.

In homes and schools, training of the minds of the young on these lines has to be taken up earnestly by teachers and parents; of course, they must equip themselves for this work by steady practice of meditation and recitation of the name of God.  Parents and children must join in singing the glory of God.

(Sanathana Sarathi, January 1994, pg 25)

VEDA 44

How can the truth be grasped when you are steeped in falsehood? How can a fish experience the sky? How can nectar and poison, light and night, God and devil be together?



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

GEM 763

Put others before yourself, and you can become a leader among men.

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

Sai Jewel - 28

I Belong To You

Offer Me The Fruits Of Your Actions

Offer Me The Fruits Of Your Actions And The Flowers Of Your Inner Thoughts And Feelings

I do not need your flower garlands and fruits, things that you get for an anna or two; they are not genuinely yours.  Give Me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence, and washed in the tears of repentance!  Garlands and fruits you bring as items in the show, as an exhibition of your devotion; poorer devotees who can not afford to bring them are humiliated and they feel sorry that they are helpless; they cannot demonstrate their devotion in the grand way in which you are doing it.  Install the Lord in your heart and offer Him the fruits of your actions and the flowers of your inner thoughts and feelings.  That is the worship I like most, the devotion I appreciate most.

(Dussera 1953)


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

Mahasamadhi Day

“Fix thy thought on Me; be devoted to Me; worship Me; do homage to Me; thou shalt reach Me. The Truth do I declare to thee; for, thou art dear to Me. This is My teaching, My grace. This is the path to come to Me. Give up all Dharmas; surrender to Me; do not grieve; I shall liberate you from the consequences of all your acts.”


(Githa Vahini – Chap 1)

Silence

18. Om Sri Sai Parthi Kshethra Nivaasine Namah

Garland of 108 Precious Gems

Ashtotthara Satha Nama Rathnamala 

18.  Om Sri Sai Parthi Kshethra Nivaasine Namah

This name means, He who resides in the Parthi village.  But while addressing Baba thus, we must be conscious also of His omnipresence, His dwelling in all hearts.  Baba wants that each of us should purify the heart, so that He may manifest therein.  He calls Himself 'Your Hridayavasi', 'Your Indweller'.  Still, since His physical presence and the boons of conversation with Him, touching His feet and darshan of His Divine countenance are available most easily at Parthi or Puttaparthi, this name is included in the 108 names.

Baba has said, the Avathar happens in a place which is selected for its potentiality in radiating the message and its historic destiny.  So, Parthi-Kshethra has mysterious inherent virtues which attracted God-head, which have won the grace of Baba to such an extent that He has chosen this place (where the birth took place) as the centre for His task.  Baba has declared, "This Parthi will become another Tirupathi, another Mathrua".  While Krishna, Buddha and Sai Baba moved away from the place where they took birth, Baba has graciously made His birth-place the hub of the wheel of His universal faith of love.  He has made Parthi or Puttaparthi immortal, shining in the list of holy places.  Prasanthi Nilayam, His residence (Nivasa) is at Parthi-Kshetra, the holy place, and so He is addressed as He who resides (Nivasin) at Parthi.

(From : Garland of 108 Precious Gems, 

Ashtotthara Sathanama Rathnamala, by Prof N Kasturi)