Offer God real flowers grown in the garden of your heart ~ Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"One's life should be dedicated not to promoting one's selfish interests or to serve the interests of other fellow being but to the service of the Divine. Whatever is done to anyone, if it is done as an offering to the Divine, it will reach the Divine."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(SSS Vol. XVI p.33)
"If you want to realize God, if you wish to experience the divinity within you, if you want to know your true self, you have to develop pure, unsullied love. This binds all people. It is described as the tether of love (Prema pasham)."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(December 25, 1996)
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"Do not fritter the days in attaining affluence in material possessions, which are often impediments in the journey of life. Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows! Money is not true wealth; it loses its value, it bloats the ego and hardens the heart."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(December 25, 1970)
What is our present state of affairs, and how can we receive His guidance & His grace?
"This world is the jungle in which you roam; fear is the lion, which drives you up the tree of samsara - worldly activities. Anxiety is the bear that terrifies you and follows your steps in samsara; so, you slide down into attachments and binding deeds, through the twin roots of hope and despair. The two rats are day and night, which eat away the span of life.
Meanwhile, you try to snatch a little joy from the sweet drops of egoism and ‘mine-feeling’. Finding at last that the drops are trivial and out of reach, you shout in the agony of renunciation, calling on the Guru. Guru appears, whether from within or from elsewhere, and saves you from fear and anxiety. When you call out in all sincerity, the response will certainly come. Do not pray from the lips, as you do now, from the Puja room, which is but a corner of the kitchen; You worship the Lord with an eye on the dishes cooking in the oven, with a nose inhaling hungrily the smells of boiling curries.
Give up all low desire and call from the anguished heart."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Divine Discourse - Nov 24, 1965)
The name of the Lord must always be pronounced with joy, thankfulness, exultation, awareness of the uniqueness and the splendour. Say it with love, say it with sincere yearning. – BABA
we are given a small, precious window of time -
a brief breath in the vastness of eternity.
We call it life.
It feels long when we’re young,
but the older we get, the more we realize how fast it passes…
how fragile it is…
how quickly moments slip away.
And that’s why we must use it wisely.
Be happy.
Not someday.
Not when everything is perfect.
But now - in small everyday moments that make your heart warm.
Lift others up.
Your words can heal.
Your kindness can save someone’s day.
Your compassion can change a life.
We rise higher when we help others rise.
Live each moment fully.
Life doesn’t give refunds for wasted time.
The present is all you truly own - breathe it in, live it deeply, love it wholeheartedly.
This tiny window called life is not guaranteed.
It’s not promised to be long.
And it doesn’t stay open forever.
So laugh loudly.
Love deeply.
Forgive quickly.
Appreciate what you have.
And choose joy whenever you can.
Life is brief, but it can be beautiful -
if you live it before it slips away.
Samastha Lokha Sukhino Bhavanthu
It is not to be performed for the satisfaction of the person rendering the service or the person at those bidding it is being done
The feeling should flow through the nerves and bloodstream and permeate ever cell of the person's body.
Whatever be the nature of work, we should do it as an offering to God."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Seva - A Flower at His Feet p.44)
Somebody once asked Baba, "Where are you, where do you reside?" Baba replied, "I reside in the altar of your heart." The Lord installs Himself on the throne of a pure heart. So Baba stays in our heart so long as we keep it pure and sacred.
The next question put to Baba was, "Swami, what do you do?" He said, "I take care of My devotees. I will be reviving Dharma. I will see to the needy and forlorn. I will be fostering Vedic knowledge." Further He said, "I shall confer Bliss on everyone. It is my vow to bring back those who drifted from dharma onto the path of dharma. It is my vow to alleviate the poor from suffering. True devotion to Me means that the devotee should have the spirit of equanimity, in pleasure and pain."
Baba also said that He will transform people. He will not destroy the evil people. The purpose of His incarnation is to make all realise the divinity within. Bhagawan speaks of the synthesis of all religions and not a particular religion. Bhagavan's purpose is not the learning or reading of the religion but putting it into practice. Bhagawan's philosophy is not in anyway the repetition of age old practices, ritualistic towards the divine. It is one of seva, service, Bhagawan says emphasis on the path of service to divinity. It is not one of mediation, advocating the philosophy of God who is beyond our knowledge. He is not speaking of God who is beyond our knowledge. He is not speaking of a God who is not within our reach, whom we cannot think of or experience. Baba's definition of Himself is "God is Love. Love is God. Live in Love." So if Love is to take the form of a person or Love personified as two feet and walk amidst us, that incarnation is to be called "Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba." Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is God Incarnate, who is nothing else but Love."
(From the book "Divine Directions" by Prof. K. Anil Kumar)
