Thought for the Day

Service is the blossom of Prema (love), a flower that fills the mind with rapture. Harmlessness is the fragrance of that flower. Let even your little acts be suffused with compassion and reverence. Be assured that your character would thereby shine greatly. The highest happiness is contentment. Where there is no harshness, holiness will thrive and virtue will flourish. Where greed exists, there, vice will breed thick.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

For fire to increase or decrease, fuel is the only cause. The more the quantity of fuel, brighter will be the illumination. Fire has the power to give light by its very nature. So too, in the fire of intellect of the spiritual aspirant, the fuel that produces renunciation, peacefulness, truth, kindness, forbearance and selfless service has to be constantly fed so that the light of wisdom is produced. The more ‘fuel’ placed, the more the efficacious and effulgent the spiritual practitioners will become. Only trees growing on fertile soil can yield good harvest. Trees which grow on saline soils will bear only poor yield. So also, it is only in hearts that are unsullied can holy feelings, divine power and gifts shine in splendour.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Victory and wealth will be yours

Everyone in the world desires victory. No one desires defeat. All crave for wealth, no one craves for poverty. But, how should one achieve victory and wealth? There is no need to undergo threefold struggle - physical, mental, intellectual - to achieve victory. Nor one need get perturbed or anxious or pine for wealth and prosperity. Take refuge in the Lord. Wield the bow of courage by holding your heart pure. That is enough. Victory and wealth will be yours. As you pursue victory and wealth, remind yourself that they are like your shadows, not substantial things in themselves. You cannot attain your shadow, even if you pursue it for a million years.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

One has to be careful in matters relating to realization of God. Whatever inconveniences one may encounter, one must try to carry on one's Sadhana (spiritual practice) without any break or modification in the discipline. One single name that does not give any slightest feeling of dislike or disaffection should be selected for meditation and repetition. One should not be changing the Name and the Form that one has loved and cherished and selected for repetition. Concentration is impossible if the Name is changed; the mind will not attain one-pointedness.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

As an aspirant, you should always seek the truthful and joyful, and avoid all thoughts that are sad and depressing. When your devotion is well-established, even if depression, doubt or conceit appears, you can easily discard them. It is best that as an aspirant, you are joyful, smiling and enthusiastic under all circumstances. This pure attitude is more desirable than even devotion and wisdom. If you are worried, depressed or doubting, you can never attain Bliss, no matter what spiritual practice you perform. Hence, the first task of an aspirant is the cultivation of enthusiasm. Never get inflated when you are praised, never get deflated when you are blamed. You must analyze yourself and correct your faults. Be a Spiritual Lion.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

The consciousness (Chittha) must first be withdrawn from the objective world and turned inwards towards the awareness of the Eternal Self, Atma. Seeds can sprout fast only when planted in a well-ploughed land. So too, the seed of Atmic Vidya (Self-Knowledge) can sprout in the field of heart only when it has undergone the necessary Samskaras (refinement process).
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Drugs to be used to escape from serious illness

In the garden of your heart, you must plant and foster the rose of Divinity, the jasmine of humility and the lily of generosity. In your medicine chest, you must keep in readiness, the tablets of discrimination, drops of self-control and three key powders of faith, devotion and patience. Through the use of these drugs, you can escape the serious illness called Agnana (ignorance).

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba