Thought for the Day

Education must assume full responsibility and impact students’ moral and spiritual life. Imparting technical skills and worldly information alone is not enough; moral and spiritual education must supplement them. People pay huge attention today only to their own selfish interests. This must change. Your attitude must be not what you can get from others, but what you can give to others – make that your focus! The idea that a posh bungalow with expensive furniture, exquisite dining table or a heavy pay package from abroad is the ideal to be worked for should be given up. This ideal breeds evil. Inspire youth to set as their ideal - hands dedicated to hard work, heads dedicated to service and hearts dedicated to compassion. Your goal must be that no one should suffer harm or pain through your words or deeds. For when another is hurt by us, what really happens is insult and injury to our own true human nature.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Live without hating others, condemning others, and seeking faults in others.

We must shape ourselves into fit instruments for the spiritual pilgrimage. There are four categories of people: The first and best category is those who pay attention to their own faults and the excellences of others. The second category consists of those who highlight their own excellences as well as the excellences of others (the middlings). The third category (the worse type) is that of those who pay attention to their own excellences and only to the faults of others, and the fourth category (the worst) is of those who present their own faults as excellences and the excellences of others as faults. Each one of you can discover for yourself which category you belong to. Remember this: If you are yearning to become aware of the Full, the Sacred, the Divine Love, the Eternal Soul, the Lord (Bhagawan), you must prepare yourself to be part of the first and best group. Discover your own faults and observe others’ excellences. This is the most desirable spiritual practice.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thought for the Day

The present day education has only a means of livelihood as its aim. It is job-oriented, not truth-oriented, not God-oriented. Life must be lived in love, peace and bliss. Therefore, even while in schools and colleges, boys and girls must know about the ever peaceful, ever blissful, ever loving Eternal Soul (Atma). The body, the senses, the mind, the reason and intellect are all unreal in the sense of temporary existence. Raising the standard of living is not as important as raising the level of consciousness. Education today highlights accumulation of things. Indeed, giving up is equally essential. Renunciation is not a loss; it is highly profitable, because you acquire joy thereby. Renunciation means freedom; it is surrender to God, love and freedom. God can be realised only through the expansion of Love. Students and youth must lead lives anchored in righteousness and wisdom, and be shining examples of simplicity, humility and mutual service.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba