Message For The Day…..Divine Bliss is Not For Sale!!!!

You will all doubtlessly agree when I say that Divine Bliss is your greatest need. However, you cannot buy it from anywhere! It has to be earned the hard way, doing good deeds, moving in good company, desisting from evil and keeping the mind attached to the Glory of God. Good and bad cannot be kept together in the same place. The Sun once remarked that he had no enemies left and someone told him that there still was one – Darkness! Then, he sent his rays, the emissaries, to seek out the foe. But wherever they went, they only saw light and darkness was nowhere to be found. They returned and reported – there was no such thing as darkness upon the earth. So too, you must gain victory of good over bad within you by persisting vigorously in your spiritual practices.

SWAMI SATYA SAI….In one of HIS Divine Discourses…

Natarajan

Message For The Day….HE is Everthing….

The Lord is a Mountain of Love. Any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaust His plenty. He is an Ocean of Mercy without a limiting shore. And devotion is the easiest way to win His Grace and also to realize that He pervades everything; in fact, He is everything! Sharanagathi (total surrender) or leaving everything to His Will, is the highest form of devotion. Devotion and the attitude of surrender, which is its final fruit, will give you great courage to meet any emergency; such courage is what is called Renunciation. When Devotion is just emerging as a sapling, a fence is needed to protect the tender plant. That fence is religion and its rules, restrictions, directions and commands.

SWAMI SATYA SAI….in one of HIS Discourses…
Natarajan

Message For The Day….We Should Be Like Pure Iron…

God draws the individual towards Himself. It is the nature of both to have this mutual affinity; they are just like the iron and magnet. But if the iron is rusty, covered with layers of dirt, the magnet is unable to attract. Remove the impurities, then you will shine forth in your real nature and the Lord will draw you unto Him. Spiritual practices (Sadhana) should result in inner as well as external cleanliness. You do not feel refreshed if you wear unwashed clothes after your bath. Nor do you feel clean if you wear washed clothes, but skip taking bath. Hence, both are needed – the baahya (external) and the bhaava (internal). Trials and tribulations are the means by which this cleansing is done. They are like the dietary and other restrictions prescribed to supplement the effect of the drug of Namasmarana (remembrance of God).

Swami Satya Sai…in one of His Discourses…

Natarajan

Message For The Day….Divine is Human….

You have come into the world to realise yourselves. You come fully equipped with all the instruments needed for that endeavour – viveka, vairaagya and vichakshana (discrimination, non-attachment and skill); and the urge to enlarge your love, enrich your emotions and ennoble your actions. But you have lost your way; you are caught in a morass and are confused by mirages and dreams which you take as real; you run after false colours and cheap substitutes. Remember that everything is subordinated to that supreme task. The body should be fed and kept free from disease. Why? So that it may be fit for spiritual discipline. Spiritual discipline for what? For the realisation of the truth about oneself. The subtle is the basis for the gross; the Divine is the basis for the Human.

Swami Satya Sai….in His discourse…

Natarajan

Words of Wisdom….Worth Keeping in Our Heart !!!!

A man with one watch knows what time it is.. A man with two watches is never quite sure of the time !!!

D’ont look where you fall, but where you slipped!!!

Look at life through the windshield…not the rearview mirror!!!

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do !!!

Be nice to people on your way up..because you will need them on your way down!!!

Never explain…your friends do not need it… your enemies will not believe it !!!

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted!!!

Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to act while facing fear !!!

If you are heading in the wrong direction, you are allowed to do a U turn!!!

You have got to do your own growing..no matter how tall your father was !!!

The best way to predict your future is to create it !!!!!

source::::unknown….input from my friend…

Natarajan

Run Your Own Race….

FOCUS……..

I was jogging one day and i noticed a person in front of me, about 1/4 of mile. I could tell he was running a little slower than me and I thought, good, i shall try to catch him. I had about a mile to go my path before i needed to turn off.

So i started running faster and faster. Every block, i was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes i was only about 100 yards behind him, so i really picked up the pace and push myself. You would have thought i was running in the last leg of London Olympic competition. I was determined to catch him.

Finally, i did it! I caught and passed him by. On the inside i felt so good.
“I beat him” of course, he didn’t even know we were racing.

After i passed him, i realized i had been so focused on competing against him that i had missed my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past it. I had to turn around and go all back. Isn’t that what happens in life when we focus on competing with co-workers, neighbors, friends, family, trying to outdo them or trying to prove that we are more successful or more important?

We spend our time and energy running after them and we miss out on our own paths to our God given destinies. The problem with unhealthy competition is that its a never ending cycle.

There will always be somebody ahead of you, someone with better job, nicer car, more money in the bank, more education, a prettier wife, a more handsome husband, better behaved children, etc. But realize that “You can be the best that you can be, you are not competing with no one.” Some people are insecure because they pay too much attention 2 what others are doing, where others are going, wearing driving.

Take what God has given you, the height, weight personality. Dress well wear it proudly! You’ll be blessed by it.
Stay focused and live a healthy life.

There’s no competition in DESTINY, run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

source::::unknown…input from a friend of mine…
Natarajan

Message For The Day…Do not Underestimate one”s Devotion…

The proprietor of a coffee house goes to the nearby druggist for a pill to ward off his headache, but when the druggist gets a headache he goes to the coffee house for a cup of coffee, which he thinks will cure him. Tastes differ according to temperament and the character one has earned by generations of activity in this world. The Jnaani (wiseman) says, ‘Sarvam Brahma mayam’ (Everything is Divinity); another, a yogi, says all is energy; a third, who is a devotee, says all is the play of the Lord. Each proclaims based on one’s taste and progress in the spiritual path. Do not hurry to ridicule anyone, for all of you are pilgrims, walking along the same road.

Swami Satya Sai….in one of HIS discourses..

Natarajan

Message For The Day….Earn the Grace of God…

Many of you are drawn to God due to health problems or mental worry of some sort or the other. Know that these are mere baits by which you have been drawn closer to God, so that you may contact Him, receive His Grace and strengthen your faith in the Divine. Problems and worries are really to be welcomed as they teach you the lessons of humility and reverence. Today, the entire world faces many problems. Many hesitate to believe that things will improve and that life for all will be happy and full of joy, that the Golden Age will ever recur. Be assured that Divinity will always be present to protect and establish righteousness, and avert the crisis upon humanity.

It is a sign of indolence to think that you won’t suffer from grief or loss; they are inevitable. Earn the Grace of the Lord every minute; then, even mountains of sin can be reduced to dust.

Swami Satya Sai…

Message For the Day….You Are the Divine Self…..

Live with the consuming conviction that you are the Divine Self (Atma). This is the hard core eternal truth. The Atma it is, that sees through your eyes, hears through your ears, works through your fingers and moves through your feet. This true ‘you’ will not be elated by praise or deflated by blame. If someone carps at you, reason out thus within yourself: “Is he or she casting aspersions on my body? Well, why should I be worried then? Or are the abuses being addressed to the Atma? Nothing can affect its purity, or tarnish its glory. So remain calm and unperturbed.” You may ask, what happens then to the strings of abuse? Like the letter sent by post and refused by the addressee, it returns to the sender.

Be humble, be calm, be tolerant. Co-operate with all and treat everyone
with courtesy and kindness.

Swamy Satya Sai…