1986: Discover your Divine essence

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.

·      1986:  Discover your Divine essence

Nature is a preacher; life is a teacher. When this truth is recognised, life becomes meaningful and purposeful. Everyone should strive to unfold the divinity within him and illumine his life. Poring over a few books, one may secure a high rank in university examinations by one's diligence and industry. But this is not the consummation of education. Knowledge is not to be derived from books alone. Nature is to be accepted as a better instructor.

One can discover for himself how difficult it is to equip oneself with such a mind. The face

photographs the mind; its moods, its decisions and desires; its sankalpas, in short. Consider a

gramophone record; its contents---words, songs, noises--can only be heard, they cannot be seen;

but the contents of the mind--evil sankalpas based on anger, hatred, envy, despair, arrogance,

egotism or good sankalpas based on truth, love, charity, compassion--can be seen on the face,

though they cannot be heard. The face is moulded by the mind. Every single sankalpa (or thought accepted and acted upon) is a streak or line which affects its shape.

There is a simple five-letter  pronouncement. "God is" ("Devudunnaadu," in Telugu). Make this your sheet-anchor. If you go on reciting it, thinking over it, acting up to it and conveying it to others, immersing yourself in  the bliss of this experience, you will be making the greatest contribution to the welfare of the world. (Swami recited a poem on the glories of God's creation to prove "Devudunnaadu").

The face is the index of the mind. When you bear ill-will towards anyone, your enmity alters

your face and manners. When you entertain good and loving thoughts, your heart is filled with

joy and you experience an upsurge of happiness. If you fill your heart with love, your entire life

becomes a saga of love. If you fill it with hatred, envy and pride, life becomes a dreary desert..

All our thoughts are influenced by what we see, hear or smell. We must try to control the sere

organs, especially the ears and the eyes. When you close your eyes even for a brief moment, you

will be able to hear the sound "Om" coming from within you. This pranava sold can be heard

when you close all the doors and windows in a room and let the wind blow through a small chink.

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Points to Ponder:

·      what is the five letter pronouncement for God?

What should we learn from nature?