1998: Quest for Truth
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.
How does man proclaim his divinity?
1998: Quest
for Truth
Seva (service) is the highest form of worship and the
best penance. Seva is the most important form of reciting the Lord’s name.
People should endeavor to cultivate qualities like tolerance, love, sympathy,
righteousness, justice, and truth.
What does GOD signify? G stands for generation (or creation). O
stands for organization:(sustaining the creation). D stands for destruction (or
dissolution). All these three aspects can be noticed when we examine any
object. All three processes take place according to the will of the Divine. The
entire cosmos is encompassed by these three processes.
The heart is like a lock with the mind as the key. Turn the key
toward God, you develop detachment. Turn the mind toward the world, you get
attachment. Our minds should not be immersed in mundane concerns. Deem
everything in the world as divine.
With every breath, man proclaims that he and the Divine are one
in the mantra So-Ham, expressed
through inhalation and exhalation. Men must recognize that the
body becomes a sacred shrine (kshetra) because the indweller is God (Kshetrajna).
To know that God is the indweller will free a person from all bad qualities. Egoism
is the worst enemy of man. Possessiveness (mamakara) is another evil
trait. Both these should be banished, since they are at the root of all vices.
When the two evil traits go, man becomes divinised.
It should be realized that proficiency in fields like music, literature,
and the arts is secured by the grace of the Divine. All fine arts are gifts
from God.
Points to Ponder:
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