Self Improvement

Message For The Day…Remember we are all pilgrims towards the same goal …Routes differ !!!

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Engage yourself in spiritual discipline, spiritual thoughts, and spiritual company. Forget the past and let it go its way. At least from now on be determined to save yourself. Never yield to doubt or unsteadiness. Have faith in any one Name and Form that appeals to you. If you revere one form of God and hate another, the net result is zero. God will not tolerate the slightest hatred of any Name or Form. Avoid factions, quarrelling, scorning and fault-finding, as they reveal your ignorance and actually recoil on you. You find fault in others, because you have the same faults in you. If you throw contempt at the form of God that another reveres, the contempt falls on your own God. Remember, everyone is a pilgrim towards the same goal. Some take one route, others take another.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….No Need For Scriptures, If You Acquire Love…

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Scriptures are only road-maps; at best they are guide-books that give directions for the destination. It is the actual journey that will reveal the hardships, the delays, the land-slips, the potholes as well as the beauty of the scenic route on the way, and the magnificence of the destination. No secondhand account can equal the firsthand experience! The symbols on the map are interpreted differently by different scholars according to their preconceived notions, predilections and pet theories. If you acquire Love, then you can dispense with the Scriptures; for the purpose of all the Scriptures is just that: to create the feeling of Sarvajana samaana prema (equal love for all), and to negate egoism which stands in the way. Reason too, if it comes in the way of this love, is to be discarded as ‘perverted’.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Install Krishna in Your Heart and Mind ….

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Thirst for Krishna, to see Him, to hear Him, to listen to His Flute, for installing Him in the heart and mind, and for grasping His reality through the intellect – this thirst is most conducive to peace and joy. Devotion to Krishna is the chain by which the monkey mind can be fastened and subdued. The word Krish means to attract (as in aakarshana). Lord Krishna attracts your mind towards Him and turns them away from sensory desires that torment you. He satisfies the deepest thirst of all beings, for peace, joy and wisdom. Hence thirst for Krishna is a sign of health in the spiritual field. Repetition of the name Krishna is useless, unless the contemplation of the Glory of Krishna starts purifying your character. The Grace of the Lord is very powerful and is endowed on the deserving alone. Hence begin today to sublimate your character saturated with piety and devotion. Then you will secure the Grace of the Lord.   

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Whoever is Your Chosen Deity, Hold on to Them Tight !!!

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Never get shaken in your mind, never let your faith waver or decline. That will only add to the grief you already suffer from. Make it your vow to be steadfast in your faith. Whoever is your chosen deity – Shiva, Devi, Krishna, Allah, Baba or Jesus, hold on to them tight! Do not lose the contact and the company, for it is only when the coal is in contact with the live embers, that it can also become a live ember. Cultivate nearness to Me in the heart and you will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of the Supreme Love. This is a great chance. This chance will not come your way again, beware of that. If you cannot and do not, cross the sea of grief now, taking hold of this chance, when again can you get such an opportunity? Indeed you are very fortunate.

Sathya Sai Baba

While Success Is Produced , Impact is Created !!!

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Very Inspiring : Creating has to be our nature…………..

· Why Anand Kumar of the ‘Super 30’ fame from Bihar, who has trained 267 ‘poorest of the poor’ students to enter IIT, refuse to take government or private help?
· Why does Ratan Tata, who has enough money to live a super comfortable life, work even after he has crossed 75 years of age?
· When a Steve Jobs has enough money to retire forever, why does he create an iPod, an iPad, an iPhone?
· Why does a Sister Agnes (Mother Teresa), trudge through the stinking by-lanes of Kolkatta searching for diseased destitutes, even if it means, exposing herself to diseases, harm and ridicule?
· Why do Bill and Melinda Gates visit poverty stricken, disease infested parts of Africa when they can be sunning themselves on the beaches of Hawaii?
· Why does a Rabindranath Tagore, with the risk of being hunted, return Knighthood to the British Empire after the Jallianwalabagh massacre even as the British were ruling his homeland?
· Why does a Sundarlal Bahuguna undertake a 5,000 km trans-Himalaya march to save the forests and the ecology of that part of our country saying, ‘Ecology is the permanent economy’? Why does he politely refuse the Padma Shree by the Govt of India saying that “I do not deserve it till flesh and blood (top soil) of India was flowing down to the sea”?
· Why does a Nandan Nilekanni, with about $ 1.4 Billion as his wealth, become a public servant, and assume charge of an audacious task (‘Aadhaar’ cards) as the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India ?

We believe, it is so because Life is more than accumulation of things money can buy.

Because, Life is more than collecting rewards and accolades competing with others.

Because, Life is more than gaining attention and admiring glances when you are with people.

Because, Life is more than playing a games of one upmanship.

Because, Life is more than having more than / better / the latest compared to others.

Because, Life is about ‘creating something special’. Every human being has an inherent desire to create.

Give a child a paper and pencil. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.

Give the child a few blocks. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.

Give the child some things that make noise. It will immediately get down to ‘create’.

‘Creating’ is our nature.

There are enough people who believe the ultimate objective of life is to accumulate enough wealth and fame, create a safety nest for their immediate family and live life into obscurity. This is what most people define as success.

The goal of life should never be this ‘success’. It should be SIGNIFICANCE. The more we have created, the more we are significant. Otherwise, we are in a mirage called success.

While success is ‘produced’, impact is ‘created’ !!!

May each one of us live not just to produce success, but live, to create an impact.

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

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Message For The Day…Train Your Mind To Walk Quietly ….

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The demon Bhasmasura, through God’s Grace earned the power to turn into ash anyone by placing his hand on their head. However his instincts were not tamed, his reasoning was not purified. Blinded by greed and egoism, he tried to reduce the very Giver of the gift. Hence, unless you are extra careful to examine the very process of reasoning, even while the process is on, there is a big danger that you may be following only the trail that you yourself have laid down. Reason can be tamed only by discipline; through compassion, calmness, forbearance and endurance (Daya, Shantham, Kshama, and Sahana). Train your mind to walk quietly along small stretches of road at first and then after you have become sure of its docility, you can take it along safely down the tortuous road of the sixfold temptations of lust, anger, greed, delusion, pride and jealousy.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Never Think That GOD does Not Care for You….

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Develop attachment for the Lord, who will always be with you wherever you go. Only the years that you have lived with the Lord and for the Lord, are to be counted as true living. Develop prema (divine love) towards Him, parama-prema (supreme love) of which He is the embodiment. Never give room for doubts and hesitations or questions to test the Lord’s love. Do not entertain questions such as, “Why have my troubles not ended? Does He not love me enough? Why is He ignoring Me? Why is it that He did not speak to me?” Never think that God does not care for you and that He does not know you. God is full of selfless love and truly cares for you always. In fact every act of His, is for your wellbeing!

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Message For The Day….Give up Worldly Pleasures, Malice, Envy and Hatred …

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Practice renunciation from now on, so that you may set out on the journey when the call comes! No one knows when the call will come and there is no point in being in tears at that moment remembering the property you accumulated, the fame you amassed or the titles you won! The eagle is pestered by the crows, so long as it has a fish in its beak. The crows swish past the eagle to steal the fish from its mouth. They pursue the bird wherever it sits for a little rest. At last, the eagle gives up the attachment to the fish and drops it from its beak; the crows fly after the fish and leave the eagle free. So too, when you give up sense pleasures, the crows of pride, envy, malice and hatred will fly away and leave you in peace.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Renounce Evil Qualities and and Win Peace !!!

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You are happiest when you are immersed in yourself! The child in the womb is in the state Soham (‘I am He’ – union with God) but when it is born in the world, it starts the question Koham (‘Who am I’). For it forgot its truth and identifies itself with the body and the senses. Until it becomes a realized person (Jnani), it will never regain the knowledge of Soham. Madhava-tatvam (Divine state) when it assumes a form, is Manava (Man). Manava can become Madhava (Divine) by engaging in actions dedicated to God. You can then discover your Divine State. What is the use of doing only human action (Manava Karma) or even demoniac action and claiming that human being is Divine? Virtue must be your life-breath. Character must be your backbone. Without these no meritorious act will fructify. Retain your evil qualities and win troubles; Renounce them and win peace!

 

Sathya Sai Baba