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Respect For Parents - The Greatest Virtue: Divine Discourse Delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba -------------------------------------------------- The sun shines serene and gentle. The brief daylight is softly wafting the cool wind. The fields are ripe with golden crops. Marigold flowers blossom like garlands of pearls on the banks of rivers. The farmers are rejoicing and singing. The ripened chillies are colouring fields with vestments of bright red. The sweet festival of Sankranti has come, filling our homes with the freshly harvested grains of cereals and pulses. (Telugu Poem) Of all the festivals, the imminent Sankranti is the most important. It is the day on which the farmers bring home the harvested crop, feed the poor, and rejoice. On this day, the Vedic scholars get up during the sacred Brahmamuhurtha time and chant Vedic mantras, purifying the hearts of one and all. This festival has a special significance even for the householders. They invite the

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Divinity through Love: Divine Discourse Delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba -------------------------------------------------- Men and women of many faiths From the four comers of the world Have gathered here with love and humility Unmindful of comfort or discomfort, Enduring numerous travails, All for the sake of Baba's grace! Dispelling rampant atheism And instilling faith in God Sai's all-embracing love Is transforming mankind And leading them to the Divine. EMBODIMENTS of Divine Love! Although physically there are no basic differences among human beings, many differences can be seen in their practices, their thoughts and feelings. Every nation is an aggregation of human beings. Differences in the life-styles of human communities in the various nations are quite significant, though the natural environment over the globe as a whole is not so varied. This is a significant characteristic of the human predicament. Truth is one. It is beyond mind and speech. It transcen

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The Saints of Thamilnadu: Divine Discourse Delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba -------------------------------------------------- EMBODIMENTS of love! The human being is a combination of Naithikam (morality), Dharma (righteousness) and Adhyathmikam (spirituality). All three constituents are con-rained in man. Hence, to recognise the Divine in man, his humanness should not be divorced from his Divinity. Divinity is immanent in man. Men consider themselves as mere human beings. This is nor so. All of them are manifestations of the Divine. It is because men do not recognise this fact, all kinds of confusions arise in respect of human activities in the phenomenal world. Every person should develop the awareness that he is Brahman - "Aham Brahmasmi." Only then will he understand his true nature. God is not distinct and apart from man. Bharath has been conveying profound truths to the world from ancient times. It proclaimed the universal message: "Lokassamasthas-sukh

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Character Is The Goal Of Education: Divine Discourse Delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba -------------------------------------------------- Students, Boys and Girls! The present Vice Chancellor, the former Vice Chancellor, the Secretary of the Central Trust, and two other students have made excellent speeches in beautiful vocabulary. In this vast world, wherever you see, you find most wonderful and joyful events that awaken your inner being and fill your heart with immense bliss. Our students also have developed great skill, intelligence, and expertise in the fields of sports, games, and music and demonstrated their talents giving joy to one and all. Whatever the activity they undertake, they do it to please Swami and not for temporary happiness. Right from the time of birth, all activities of man are centred around the process of learning and acquiring wisdom. It is absolutely necessary to teach the spirit of idealism to our students so that they fill their hea

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NOTES FROM Sathya Sai Vahini Sathya Sai Baba July 15, 2023 The Atma is "unbound" at first; but later it is seen as limited and restricted. Through good deeds and activities, it resumes its vastness and boundlessness. Everyone, without any difference, has the opportunity to achieve this transformation. Excerpt From Sathya Sai Baba. "Sathya Sai Vahini." Sri Sathya

NOTES FROM Sathya Sai Vahini Sathya Sai Baba July 15, 2023 The word Hell (naraka) cannot be found in the Vedas. The conception of Hell is foreign to the spiritual thought of the Indians (Bharathiyas). The idea of Hell and the various descriptions of Hell are all later additions in the scriptures (sastras) and ancient tales (Puranas). The authors of these texts believed that religion would be incomplete if it did not posit Hell. They laid down diverse tortures as part of Hell, but they laid down one limitation to the pain Hell inflicts. They declared that t

NOTES FROM Sathya Sai Vahini Sathya Sai Baba July 11, 2023 In no other country, among no other peoples, have such ancient teachings seen the light. There may be some misty ideas or brief glimpses, but they do not deserve the name "spiritual text" or "literature". The Vedic literature pictures not only spiritual inquiries by the sages and spiritual aspirants and their results but also their lines of thought, their yearnings and aspirations, their secular struggles and temporal problems.

NOTES FROM Sathya Sai Vahini Sathya Sai Baba July 11, 2023 We will find it impossible to love God or adore Him unless we meditate on some form; this is as essential as breathing is for sheer living. This is a necessary stage in the process of living. One has to accept it as such. Childhood is the father of old age. Can old age condemn childhood or teenage as evil? To experience the divine Principle, idol worship is and has been a great help to many. How then can the aspirant and the practitioner of spiritual disciplines condemn idol worship after passing t

NOTES FROM Sathya Sai Vahini Sathya Sai Baba July 11, 2023 The Vedas took form only to demonstrate and emphasize the existence of God. The Indians who attained the highest goal of spiritual exercise have all traveled along the Vedic path and carried on their investigations according to Vedic teachings. The scriptures (sastras) contain authentic versions of their experiences and the bliss they won. In the scriptures, and in the Upanishads, they assert, "We had the awareness of the Atma."

NOTES FROM Sathya Sai Vahini Sathya Sai Baba July 11, 2023 The Vedas do not teach acceptance of a bundle of frightfully hard rules and restrictions; they do not hold before one a prison house where one is shut in by the bars of cause and effect. Excerpt From Sathya Sai Baba. "Sathya Sai Vahini." Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division, Prasanthi Nilayam, Pinc

The Revelation: Divine Discourse Delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba -------------------------------------------------- YOU are engaged in discovering solutions to problems, arguments to overcome doubts, means to prevent new problems and fresh doubts from arising; such exercises which all conferences relish, cannot help successful navigation across the sea of spiritual endeavour. These are but frail contrivances, these discussions, resolutions, speeches and regulations. The world is much too stormy and agitated to be quietened by these. This is the time for cool calm contemplation, not quick passionate speculation and hasty decision. You need to contemplate once again on the eternal lessons laid down by the sages of India's past, lessons that have been neglected and cynically forgotten in recent years. The suggestions and solutions that come out of the discussions today are all good, so far as they go; but, how can a person who cannot himself swim, teach others the ar

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