Transform work into worship, and worship into wisdom.

One must take up work, that is of some use to the world. Move into the villages and help to keep them clean. Instruct the women of the village in the basic principles of child-health, child-care and child-training. When health fails, people become despondent and even desperate. When health prevails, vitality pervades both mind and body. By the process of loving service, you can become the promoters of much joy. Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your home? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why be ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Close your eyes to others’ faults, but keep them open to recognize your own faults.

As our vision, so is the creation. Will not the colour of creation change based on the colour of glasses we wear? There have been and there are great masters now too who demonstrate to man the great heights one can attain, and also reveal the great power that is latent in the human body. Mind of man is often wasted wandering on things outside, criticising others and similar such activities. When one is always engaged in seeing faults in others, how can one attain ekagrata or one-pointedness? Ask yourself this question: When many valorous and great ones, who have physical bodies just like me, have attained such exalted status, why should my position be anything less? What do I gain in finding faults of others? I have to search within myself for my own faults and keep my mind under control – Making this firm resolve is the first step in spiritual practice.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

To battle against the tendency of body identification and to win the grace of God, spiritual exercises such as philosophical inquiry (Tatwa Vicharana), mind and sense control (sama-dama) and other six-fold spiritual disciplines (shat-sampatti) have been laid down. Their practice will ensure the purification of the consciousness; it will then become like a clean mirror that can reflect any object, and the Atma will stand revealed clearly. For the attainment of the highest wisdom (jnana-siddhi), cleansing of the consciousness (chitta-suddhi) is the royal path. For the pure in heart, this is easy to achieve. This is the central truth of the Bharatiya search for the ultimate reality (Paramartha). This is the very vital breath of the teaching.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba