Brahman

Message for the Day…” Focus Your Efforts towards Acquisition of Spiritual Bless…”

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Every living being starts on food and yearns slowly to reach the peak of spiritual bliss. Let all your efforts and undertakings be directed to the acquisition of spiritual bliss. The Taithiriya Upanishad clearly elucidates spiritual bliss as the urge for birth, growth, decay, and death. It calls out that all are born in spiritual bliss, will live for it, and will die in order to attain it. However how can Brahman be spiritual bliss (ananda)? Scriptures clarify, ‘Om ithyekaaksharam Brahman – Om, the one imperishable letter is Brahman.’ It is also said, Atma(Divine Self in individual) is Brahman (Divine). Therefore the three terms Atma, Brahman, and Omare all indistinguishably the same. The Scriptures(Brahma Sutras) reveal that the outer universe, which has Divine (Brahman) as the base and the inner universe are identical and cannot be differentiated.   

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Message For the Day…” Understand the ‘Brahman’ Phenomenon…”

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It is an arduous process for people to become aware of the ‘One’ that is their core. The gross body is the product of the food consumed. But within, there is a subtler force, an inner vibration named vital air (prana). The mind(manas) within is subtler still, and deeper and subtler than the mind is the intellect (vijnana). Beyond the intellect, people have in them the subtlest sheath of spiritual bliss (ananda). When one delves into this region of spiritual bliss, the reality, the Brahman or the One can be experienced. That awareness is indeed the most desirable. In the Taittiriya Upanishad, while teaching his son Bhrigu the Brahman phenomenon, Varuna says, “Son!Brahman cannot be seen through the eyes. Know that Brahman is that which enables the eyes to see and the ears to hear. He can be known only through extreme yearning in a cleansed mind and concentrated thought. No other means can help.”

Sathya Sai Baba