Wherever and whenever the lamp of love is shining bright, God manifests and showers His Grace

Love unfolds first on the lap of the mother. The eyes of Love fasten themselves on the caressing face of the mother. It then spreads towards the father, brothers and sisters, kith and kin, friend and playmate, region and language, world and its Maker. The ‘I’ that lives within the body is like a lion in a cave. It is the monarch of the forest; but it limits itself to the few square feet of rocky floor. Let it come out, renouncing the petty possession. So long as you crib yourselves into the body-consciousness (I am the body), you are the lion moping in the musty cave! Do not feel, Dehosmi (I am the body). Roar Brahmasmi! (I am Brahman) - I am all this and more, I am all this is, was, and will be. Then the littleness, time, space, ego - all will flee from your heart! You will be Love, Love, Love and nought else. That is to say, you will be Divine, one with the One.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Do your duty; leave the rest to God.

You can hold fast to God either through Jnana, Bhakti or Karma maarga (paths of knowledge, worship or work). You may travel first, second or third class in the train; the destination is the same. Jnana proceeds on the assumption that God is immanent and transcendent. Bhakti believes that God is Creator, Preserver and Destroyer, that He is to be adored, and propitiated by deeds that He appreciates, that God is Master and you are privileged to serve. Karma takes into account a third category - Nature! Man has to utilise Nature, live in Nature, live by Nature, always dedicating one’s activity to the further Glory of God, resigning oneself to the worshipful activity, unconcerned with the fruits of the activity, for they are in the hands of God. The three colours - Jnana, Bhakti and Karma are different only when the white light of God passes through the prism of human reason and mind. Activate them in deed, they are but parts of one ray.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

When a lamp is lit from another, there are two where there was just one! The first one did not stop shining light. You can light a million lamps from one; yet, the first will not suffer! Love too is like this. Share it with a million, it will still be as bright as when it was alone. When each house in the street lights a few lamps and keeps them on the door, parapet wall, gate, porch and so on, what is the effect? The town is filled with light, residents are happy, children dance in joy and the sky shines in the glow of earthly joy. Light spreads mingling with other sources of light! It has no boundaries, no prejudices, no favourites! This is the lesson of light and love; share, expand, clasp, spread, give up limits of mine and thine, his and theirs, caste and creed, in one limitless flow of Love. That is the culmination of all spiritual sadhana!

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba