Thought for the Day

1.All things that are seen are transient and unreal. God alone is eternal and real. Attachment with objects ends in grief. God is your own Reality and this Reality, that is, the God in you, has no relationship with the changing transitory objective world. He is only Pure Consciousness. Even if you posit some relationship for it, it can only be the type that exists between the dreamer and the objects seen and experienced in dreams.

2.Everything has energy latent in it be it a piece of paper or a strip of cloth. When this latent energy is exhausted, it results in death; when energy fills, birth happens. Sath-Chith-Ananda is energy. In fact energy is all and this energy is derived from God - it is the very basis of man. These days we are building superstructures ignoring this basic and foundational Divine principle. We are fascinated by subjects and studies that promise to feed our stomachs and make us materially happy and powerful. But the hard truth is that the Divine underlies everything. Man must either know the supreme truth of the One Being behind all Becoming or at least know the practical truth of love and brotherhood.

3.God is Omnipotent. He knows no distinction between the possible and the impossible. His wizardry and His sport, His play and His pranks cannot be described with the vocabulary that man commands. Though He has no Form, He can assume the Form of the Universal Person, embodying all Creation in His Form. He is One, but He makes Himself Many. Matsya, Koorma, Varaha, Narasimha,Vamana, Parasurama, Rama, Krishna,Buddha, Kalki - people usually relate God to these Divine Forms that He has assumed. But that does not describe Him as vast as His magnificence. We have to visualise all forms as His. The vitality of every being is His Breath. In short, every bit in Creation is He, it is the manifestation of His Will. There is nothing distinct or separate from Him.

Actions that bind include all activity in relation to exterior objects. Such acts are usually resorted to with a desire for the result. This craving for the results leads one to the morass of “I” and “mine” and the demons of lust and greed. If one follows this path, there will be sudden flares, as is seen when clarified butter (ghee) is poured in the sacrificial fire! Assigning priority to sense objects (Vishaya) is the same as assigning importance to poison (Visha)!

4.Those who seek to know or lay down the causes for the Lord willing one way and not another are really on an impertinent adventure; so too are those who assert and describe His power and His plans through different characteristics, qualifications and limits, and also those who claim to know that the Lord will act only in a particular mode, and that the Divine Principle is of a specific nature and not otherwise! There can be no limit or obstacle to His Will. There can be no bounds to the manifestation of His power and His glory. He fructifies all that He wills. He can manifest in whatever form He wills. He is unique, incomparable, and equal to Himself alone. He is His own measure, witness, and authority.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba