Views and Reviews: Insights that Illumine the Light Within

Summaries of the discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on New year and Yudagi  1987 to 2009. You are truly born, on the day you begin your journey to realize your true identity—Divinity.   1993: Purity the Path to Divinity There is no specific proof for the Divine. Hence, He is called Aprameya (Immeasurable). THE phenomenal world that is perceived by us is called Vishvam (the cosmos). Vishvam means that which has emerged from the Divine with many limbs. This Cosmos is Kaaryam (action or effect). Every action is preceded by a cause. This cause is God. Hence, God and the Cosmos are related as Cause and Effect. The relationship is interdependent and inseparable. For man to recognise the Brahman, he has to comprehend the nature of that which transcends Time. Time is consuming the body. God is the Consumer of Time itself.  Man's joys and sorrows, happiness or misery are not dependent on Time. They are based on man's actions. Time has no relations or friends. Time is not s...

1993: Purity the Path to Divinity There is no specific proof for the Divine. Hence, He is called Aprameya (Immeasurable). THE phenomenal world that is perceived by us is called Vishvam (the cosmos). Vishvam means that which has emerged from the Divine with many limbs. This Cosmos is Kaaryam (action or effect). Every action is preceded by a cause. This cause is God. Hence, God and the Cosmos are related as Cause and Effect. The relationship is interdependent and inseparable. For man to recognise the Brahman, he has to comprehend the nature of that which transcends Time. Time is consuming the body. God is the Consumer of Time itself.  Man's joys and sorrows, happiness or misery are not dependent on Time. They are based on man's actions. Time has no relations or friends. Time is not subordinate to anyone. All are subject to Time. Hence, if one has to realise the Divine, who is the Lord of Time, one has to carry out His injunctions. God looks with love only at such a per...

Summaries of the discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on New year and Yudagi  1987 to 2009. You are truly born, on the day you begin your journey to realize your true identity—Divinity.   1992: Divinise Every Moment Sanctify every moment of your life. Treat every second as new. In this context, you have to bear in mind three things. One is that which, after it goes, will not come back. The second one is that which, after it comes will not leave. The third is the one that neither comes nor goes. That which, when it comes, will not go is Jnaana (spiritual wisdom). When this sublime knowledge comes to one, it would not leave him.  Ignorance is the thing, which, once it is gone, will not return. If it returns, it is "ignorance piled on ignorance."  That which does not come and does not leave is Aatma Thathwa (the Aatmic Principle). Regard the entire cosmos as the great mansion of the Supreme Lord. It has no streets or doors. Total surrender is the way to enter the ...

1992: Divinise Every Moment   Sanctify every moment of your life. Treat every second as new. In this context, you have to bear in mind three things. One is that which, after it goes, will not come back. The second one is that which, after it comes will not leave. The third is the one that neither comes nor goes. That which, when it comes, will not go is Jnaana (spiritual wisdom). When this sublime knowledge comes to one, it would not leave him.  Ignorance is the thing, which, once it is gone, will not return. If it returns, it is "ignorance piled on ignorance."  That which does not come and does not leave is Aatma Thathwa (the Aatmic Principle). Regard the entire cosmos as the great mansion of the Supreme Lord. It has no streets or doors. Total surrender is the way to enter the mansion.   Time moves fast like a whirlwind. Each one's life span is getting reduced every moment, like a melting block of ice. Time passes even before man realises his duties in lif...

Summaries of the discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on New year and Yudagi  1987 to 2009. You are truly born, on the day you begin your journey to realize your true identity—Divinity. 1991. Time is God 1 January 1991 The word Kaalam (Time) is derived from Kaa+alam. This means that God, embodiment of Time, is the One who rewards people according to their deserts. All things in the Cosmos, moving and unmoving, are permeated by God. Hence, God is characterised as Kaalagarbha (the One who holds Time in the womb).  Time is the very form of God. Birth and death are encompassed by Time. Time wasted is life wasted. All your experiences are the results of your actions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, affluence or poverty. The fruits of your actions are determined by Time. The way you utilise your time determines the outcome. Neither Sadhana (spiritual endeavour) nor Sadhyam (fulfilment) exists independently and apart from each other. It is a trick of the mind to make Sadhan...

Summaries of the discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on New year and Yudagi  1987 to 2009. You are truly born, on the day you begin your journey to realize your true identity—Divinity. The Crowning Virtue 7 January 1988 Everything abides in Dharma (righteousness). The presence of this Dharma cannot be established by sense of perception or through inferential deduction. It transcends the canons of logic. Its existence has to be derived from the Vedas (the authority of revealed scriptural testimony). Dharma (Righteousness) and Moksha (Liberation) are transcendental---beyond the intellect and sense perceptions. The Vedas show that through good deeds and practices, one can acquire the competence to realise Dharma and Moksha. Only those who practice Dharma are qualified to propagate it. It is because Dharma and Sathya have not been propagated by persons practising them that they have been eclipsed, as it were, and are not perceivable. It is only when they are practised in daily...

Summaries of the discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on New year and Yudagi  1987 to 2009. You are truly born, on the day you begin your journey to realize your true identity—Divinity. 1 January 1987 Loving service forever THE Sanathana Dharma (the Eternal Religion) which is the basis of Bharathiya Culture is the essence of the lessons enunciated in all the Vedic texts. The four Vedas (scriptures of eternal value) teach us who and what we really are and how we are related to the world around us. This is the greatest gift that the Vedas offer. This is the end of all enquiry, the aim of all scientific search. Knowledge has its consummation in the discovery of Truth. Speech, Mind and Breath are the three most vital instruments for adoration and awareness of Truth and Knowledge. Among the Vedas the Rig-veda highlights speech; the Yajur-veda highlights the mind; the Sama-veda highlights breath. Wisdom dawns when man realises, that the body he believed to be his is understood as ...

“Happy New Year”   Summaries of the discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba on New year and Yudagi  1987 to 2009.   You are truly born, on the day you begin your journey to realize your true identity—Divinity.     Each New year Bhagawan lights candles and cuts cakes baked by his students and staff. Beginning 2000, we also took delight in collecting exquisite candles, trays and cake slicing knives from the Philippines and other places we travelled to around world. The hostel cake baking teams used them to decorate their cakes further for Swami’s use on New Year day.   We sincerely hope these summaries will be useful to the readers and fellow spiritual aspirants.   http://viewsandreviewskes.blogspot.com/  

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NUS CFA Speaker Series - Music & Arts for a Balanced Life and a Brilliant Career: Personal Reflections 2 Mar 2011 (Wednesday), 6pm NUS Museum In today's rapidly-changing world, empowered by the Internet and social networking, information is abundantly available at the click of a button. However, the challenge that remains for students aspiring to achieve a brilliant career is how to tap that information to gain knowledge, apply the knowledge to develop skills, and use the skills to lead a balanced life. Prof Seetharam Kallidaikurichi E. is on secondment from the Asian Development Bank as Founding Director of the NUS Global Asia Institute and Visiting Professor and Director of the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.  A medical doctor, Dr Lakshmi Seetharam has...