2002: Service activities for Unity in society

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.

2002:    Service activities for Unity in society

Human life is based on samata (equality), samaikyata (unity), saubhratrutvam (fraternity) and saujanyam (nobility). They constitute the very foundation of the mansion of life. Life will be meaningless even if one of them is absent. Everyone must cultivate and safeguard these four virtues.  We call the human values as Sathya, Dharma, Santhi, Prema and Ahimsa (Truth, righteousness, peace, love and non-violence). In fact, love is the fundamental basis for Truth and righteousness. Love is God, Truth is God, righteousness is God. One bereft of these principles is verily a living corpse. The five human values can be compared to five life principles (prana) present in us.

You can make God appear before you when you have unwavering faith and devotion coupled with a steady and pure heart. Here is an example. You curdle the milk and extract butter out of it, and then heat it to get ghee. If there is water content in the butter, it will emit some unpleasant smell as you heat it. The smell will gradually diminish as you continue to heat it. So long as there is water in the butter, you cannot escape from the unpleasant smell. The water has to completely evaporate. Butter represents the individual nature. The evil tendencies in you can be compared to unpleasant smell. When you make efforts to melt ‘butter’ completely, the ‘unpleasant smell’ will gradually subside. When man performs sadhana the disagreeable smell of evil propensities emanate from him during the process. He should continue with his sadhana and overcome those evil tendencies. As he performs sadhana more and more, all evil tendencies in him will evaporate like water. Ultimately, his sadhana will yield the desired result just like pure ghee is obtained on heating butter.

Not only in India, but in all countires of the world, children and youth have an important role to play. Money is quantitatively more than the materials it can buy. If there is real wealth, we can achieve anything material. Today man is wasting his life in the pursuit of mere material wealth. First and foremost, the wealth that man has to acquire is the wealth of Love. With the wealth of Love, everything else can be acquired.  Knowingly or unknowingly you are doing sadhana based on what you think to be correct. If you desire to know what is dhyana in the real sense, ask Me. I will explain to you. In fact, you do not need any sadhana. Do as I say; you will get the result in a moment. Divinity is that which manifests right in front of you out of His grace. It cannot be obtained with the help of rigorous practices. Everybody is doing sadhana attaching himself to certain forms. In the process, he is trying to establish the glory of his own form. This is not correct. You should forget your own form and lose your consciousness in divinity.

Kaanaada was the one who experienced and propagated the truth that God is all-pervasive. Anoraneeyan mahato maheeyan (Brahman is subtler than the subtlest and vaster than the vastest). Kaanaada recognised the existence of God in every atom. He even described God as Anuswarupa (the very form of atom).

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Points to Ponder:   

What is the basis for the five human values?