1983: Unity and Purity

Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform. In this auspicious year 2015 commemorating the 90th birthday of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, we offer a compilation of key messages from the over 140 discourses in the month of July, including Guru Poornima Days between the years 1958 and 2009.

1983:  Unity and Purity

Islam denotes the social community whose members have achieved supreme peace through

surrender to the All-Merciful, All-Powerful God and who have vowed to live in peace with their

fellowmen. Islam taught something higher. It directed attention to the One in the Many, the Unity in Diversity and led people to the Reality named God. Prayer, in Islam, is also a congregational activity. Prayer in a group produces beneficial  vibrations.

When God assumes the human form and is behind, before and beside you, speaking to you and

moving with you, and allows you to cultivate attachment of various kinds with Him, you do not

recognise Him. I am the urge within you, the knowledge which you seek as a result of the urge, of your own self. "One word of Swaami grants the treasure of all the riches. A single glance of Swaami bestows all boons; it is the Paarijaatha (wish-fulfilling flower-tree) Glance. The arms of Sai confer the Hai (soft comfort) the mother gives, not one mother, no, the prema (divine love) of a thousand

mothers!" This Sathya Sai is such Prema Dhaayi (Bestower of Love)."

Saadhana does not consist merely in Bhajans (group singing of  devotional songs), Keerthans (Spiritual Composition), Japa (recitation of holy names) and Dhyaana (meditation). All these are auxiliaries. The primary requisite is concentration on the Pranava (Om). All Saadhana should be based on Pranava.

To despise other people's religion out of love for one's own religion, is like demonstrating one's

love for one's mother by denigrating the mothers of others. One should realise that other people

have the same regard and devotion for their faiths, as one has for one's own religion. Young men

of today should, while cultivating attachment to their own religion, respect the beliefs and

practices of all others.

Everything in creation has five properties. The first three are Sath-Chith-Aanandha (Being,

Awareness, Bliss) and the last two are Ruupa and Naama (Form and Name), which are lent to

the thing only temporarily. They are subject to modification but the first three Being, Awareness,

Bliss are inherent, unchanging characteristics.  The last of the three is Aanandha (Divine

Bliss). Every human being is an embodiment, repository and vehicle of Aanandha.

The awareness of this Aanandha (Bliss) is the goal of man, the consummation of human life.

Food that confers Aanandha to the body, mind and heart is Saathwik, that which sustains holy living; that which keeps one light, even at the end of the meal.  The Saathwiks are satisfied with one meal a day. Raajasik nature demands continuous feeding on hot stuff tasting sour, salty or pungent. Thaamasiks appreciate cold, stale, acrid tastes. The grosser parts of the food consumed are eliminated. The less gross parts build up muscles and bones. The subtle parts make up the nerves and the mind.

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 Points to Ponder:

how to experience bliss (aananda)?