Divine Wisdom

 

Hope

 

Mental Agitation

 

What is the cause of mental agitation, and how can it be overcome? 

"Make efforts to experience the peace present within. Your mental pollution caused by evil qualities and wicked thoughts is responsible for your disturbance and agitation. A man who is agitated cannot even have sound sleep. 

Then how can he experience peace? Peace is divine. To experience this divine quality, you must purify your heart. You should take care not to allow evil qualities to enter your heart. Develop the power to keep evil qualities under check under all circumstances. Whatever be the difficulties, problems and predicaments that you face, you should develop the power to block evil qualities from entering your heart. 

What is this power? That is love. When you develop this power of love, there will be no scope for bad thoughts to enter your mind. There is every possibility of poisonous snakes entering a dark room full of luggage. Only such rooms which are full of luggage and darkness will become dwelling places for poisonous snakes. When the room is clean and illuminated, there is no possibility for snakes to enter it. Similarly, you should illuminate your heart with the light of love."

 ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba 

(Divine Discourse - July 26, 1996)

Love is the key to open the doors locked by egoism and greed. – BABA

Baba's Storytime - Freedom from Egoism - First Qualification of a Bhakta

 

Worry and grief, there will always be, of one type or other - in the past and future; while walking, dreaming and sleeping. But place faith in the Lord and do your tasks dedicated to Him and they will vanish. 

Nârada one day boasted before Vishnu that no devotee could excel him; but this boast was against the very first qualification of a bhakta - freedom from egoism. So, Vishnu spoke of a ryot who was tilling his little plot of land as a greater devotee and recommended that Nârada should visit and learn the art of devotion from him! 

Nârada felt very much humiliated and he proceeded to the village indicated in great chagrin. He found the ryot engrossed in his round of duties on the field and in the cattle shed and at home and in spite of the most vigilant watch, he could not hear him speak the name of the Lord more than thrice a day; once when he woke up from bed, another time when he took his midday meal and the last when he retired for the night. 

Nârada was naturally incensed that he was deemed inferior to his very poor specimen of a bhakta. He was always singing melodiously the lîlâs of the Lord and spreading everywhere the message of Namasankirtanam (singing the names of the Lord) and here was a horny-handed son of the soil who remembered the Lord just three times a day, whom Vishnu judged superior to him. 

He hurried to heaven; his face flushed with anger and ignominy, Vishnu only laughed at his plight. He gave him a pot full to the brim with water and asked him to carry it on his head and go round a certain course without spilling even a drop. Nârada did so, but when asked how often he had remembered the Name of the Lord, he admitted that his anxiety to walk without shaking the pot and spilling the water, he had forgotten the Name completely. Then Vishnu told him that the ryot who was carrying on his head more precious and more spoilable burdens than a pot of water and who had to be careful not bring harm to any of them, must perforce be admired remembering the Lord at least three times a day!

Therefore it will be great gain of you remembering the Lord with thankfulness at least thrice or even twice a day; that will give you great peace. Do not give up your worldly duties, but do them with the Name of God on your lips inviting the Grace of God on you.

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

The Atma

 "Learn the skill of achieving and maintaining inner peace, the art of being ever aware of the Atma, the inner Reality."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(July 7 1968)

Roots of Wisdom

"You reap what you sow.  How one treats others is like seeing one's own face in a mirror.  If you smile, you see a smiling image.  If you frown, a frowning image stares back at you."

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

Sai Blossoms

"Criticising others and finding fault with them comes out of egoism.  Search for your own faults instead.  The faults you see in others are your own faults; they are but reflections of your own personality traits."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(25 July 1958) 

Sri Sathya Sai Speaks

"First of all, man should exercise control over his senses.  Never listen to anything that is evil.  If an adverse situation arises, leave the place immediately.  Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.  Make every effort to be away from evil.  Only then will spiritual power grow in you."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(July 5, 2001) 

One Life, One Soul, One Purpose

 

Divine Wisdom