Gems of Wisdom

 Life has a quiet way of returning the energy we put into the world.

The bitterness you spread eventually poisons your own peace. The kindness you offer often returns when you need it most. The love you give shapes the way you experience life itself.

What you constantly think about, speak about, and focus on, slowly becomes the atmosphere you live in.

That is why mindful people pay attention not only to their actions, but also to their intentions.

If you plant anger everywhere, do not be surprised when your life feels heavy. If you plant compassion, patience, gratitude, and honesty, your inner world begins to soften.

Life is an echo.

The judgment you throw at others often reflects wounds within yourself. The peace you create for others creates peace within you too.

This does not mean life is always instantly fair. Good people still suffer. Kind hearts still get hurt.

But energy has a way of circling back over time.

So choose carefully what you send into the world: your words, your attitude, your actions, your presence.

Because in the end, we often become surrounded by the same energy we repeatedly give away.

Samastha Lokha Sukhino Bhavanthu

Quotable Quotes

 

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

The Richest Man

"Lord Buddha was once asked, "Who is the richest man in the world?"  Buddha replied: "He who has much satisfaction is the richest man."  To the question, "Who is the poorest man?"  Buddha replied, "He who has many desires."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(26 June 1988)

There is Only One Caste ...

 

Divine Wisdom

 

Sai Blossoms

 
"Devotees should develop one-pointed concentration.  There is no need to go in search of God who is omnipresent.  If devotees develop a vision of love (prema nethra), they can have the vision of the divine within themselves."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(23 September 1997)

Engage in Self-enquiry

 

Why do some devotees feel distant from God, and what should they do? Bhagawan clarifies for us today, so that we may introspect and strive to move closer to Him. 

"On various occasions, the Lord subjects the devotees to different kinds of tests and trials with a view to raising them spiritually to a higher level. The Lord, who is the source of all wisdom, will confer illumination only on those who approach Him. Those who feel that Bhagawan has not seen them or spoken to them should ask themselves how close they are mentally to Bhagawan and how near they are to the Lord in their practices. 

Each one should engage themselves in the process of self-enquiry. The Lord has neither agraha (anger) nor anugraha (benevolence). Even when He appears to be harsh, there is grace in that harshness. When He appears to chastise, there is compassion in it. When He seems to be angry, there is love behind it. Only those who understand the nature of the Divinity can appreciate the ways of the Divine. 

The Divine resorts to certain kinds of punishments to make the devotee pursue the right path and enable him to lead an ideal life. Such punishments are for the devotee's good and well-being.

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(Divine Discourse - March 6, 1989)

Regardless of time, space, or circumstance, one should feel closeness to God - that is true Bhakti. – BABA

Roots of Wisdom - The Folly of Greed

"Once greed is aroused one's intuitive knowledge of the good is shattered.  He will then be unable to tell right from wrong and instead of intelligence and insight, there will be ignorance and folly."

(From the book "Roots of Wisdom" written by Hong Yingming) 

Sai Madhuram

 

The Ever Auspicious Lord

The manifest form of Om, the one who has come to teach,

The One who churns for butter, the hearts and minds of men,

The Friend, the charmer, the liberator from blinding bondage,

The Comforter of those who clamour and pray, the Destroyer

of currents that drag,

The Consoler of torn hearts, like the moon so cool,

The Derider of Pride, the Healer, curing birth and death,

The Lotus-eyed, the Negator of Time, Himself the process and

the play of Time,

The Thief who steals for Himself the pure minds of the good,

Beauty embodied, the child of Dhevaki, Vaasudheva, Son of

Vaasudhev.

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

Baba's Storytime - Lighting the Lamp of Wisdom

Once a sadhaka, who had great ambition to know something about the divine, wanted his eye of wisdom to be opened. 

He entered a cave where a guru was residing. While entering the cave he saw a small light. As he moved forward, even that little light got extinguished. In darkness one feels frightened, and in fear, we think of God very intensively. Thus he uttered loudly the word 'Namah S'ivaya' and on hearing this, the saint asked him who he was. He said that he had come to seek his grace. 

The great saint, who was sustaining himself in the cave only by breathing the air around him, had the competence to know the mind of his visitor. He said that he will answer his question later but asked him first to go and light the lamp, which had been extinguished. The visitor took a matchbox and tried to light the lamp but did not succeed. He told the guru that he had finished all the matchsticks and yet he had not succeeded in lighting the lamp.

The guru then asked him to open he lamp, put out all the water and pour oil in it, and then try to light it. The person did this but the lamp would not light even then. The guru then said that the wick was probably wet with water and asked him to dry it nicely in the open and then attempt to light the lamp. He did this and succeeded. 

Then the person ventured to mention his need and sought it to the guru. The surprised guru said that the appropriate answer was being given all the while. The visitor pleaded that, being an ignorant man he was not able to understand the significance of the teaching and requested the guru to explain to him in clearer terms. The guru said:

"In the vessel of your heart, there is the wick of your jîva. The wick has been immersed all these days in the water of your sensuous desire. Therefore you are not able to light the lamp of wisdom. Pour out all the water of desires from the vessel of your heart, and fill it with Namasmarana of God. Take the wick of jîva and dry it in the sunshine of vairagya; squeeze out of it all the water present in the form of desire and put into the heart the oil of devotion of Namasmarana. It will be possible for you to light the lamp of wisdom".

(From the Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)