Message For the Day… ” God Expects You to Fill Your Heart with Love …”

Control your tongue as it always craves for a variety of delicacies. Ask yourself this question, “O tongue, how many bags of rice, wheat and vegetables, how many delicacies have you tasted? Fie on you if you are still unsatisfied!” Eat sufficiently to satisfy your hunger and sustain your body, without giving undue importance to taste. Likewise, your eyes must see God instead of watching unsacred things on the television or video. May your ears listen to the stories of the Lord instead of vain gossip. All that you see and hear gets imprinted on your heart and unsacred things pollute it. When your heart is polluted, life becomes meaningless. Human heart is like a pen. The colour of the words that you write will be the same as the colour of the ink in the pen. God expects you to fill your heart with love. Then, all that you think say and do will be suffused with love and your life shall become sacred.

 Sathya Sai Baba

Message for the Day…’ Cultivate Good Thoughts and and Perform Good Deeds…”

The entire creation is based on truth. Where there is truth, there you find plenty and prosperity. Human life is not meant to enjoy physical comforts and worldly pleasures, which are momentary. It is meant to set an ideal to the rest of the world. Ask yourself, “Having lived all these years, what is the ideal I have set and achieved?” You might have done a few good deeds in life, but they may be outdone by the number of bad deeds you may have performed. That is not the quality of a human being. Cultivate good thoughts, speak good words and perform good deeds. That is true humanness. We remember the ancient sages and seers even today because of the good deeds they have performed. Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. Do not indiscriminately follow the mind, for the mind is like a mad monkey. Follow your conscience. Love is the undercurrent of all this. So lead a life suffused with love.

Sathya Sai Baba

” அம்பாள் ‘படி’ அளப்பாள்” …. !!!


பெரியவாள் காசி யாத்திரை (1933) செல்லும் வழியில் ஒரு ஆந்திர குக்கிராமம் ஒன்றில் முகாமிட்டபோது ஸ்ரீ ஸி.எஸ்,விக்கு (விச்வநாதையர்) பொத்துக்கொண்டு வந்து விட்டதாம்.

“எடுத்துச் செலவழிப்பதற்கு நம் மடத்தில் என்ன கொட்டியா கிடக்கிறது? இந்தத் தரித்திரம் பிடித்த ஊரில் இத்தனை யானையையும்,ஒட்டையையும்,ஜனங்களையும் கட்டித் தீனி போடுவதென்றால் எப்படி?” என்கிற ரீதியில் பெரியவாள் காதுபடப் பொரிந்து தள்ளி விட்டாராம்.

பெரியவாள் அவரைக் கூப்பிட்டார். சாந்தமாக ” நீ ஏன் பதட்டப்படறே? நாம நல்ல காரியத்தை உத்தேசிச்சுப் பொறப்பட்டிருக்கோம்.நம்ப லக்ஷ்யம் நன்னாயிருந்தா அம்பாள் கை கொடுக்காமப் போவாளா? அவதானே எல்லாருக்கும் படியளக்கிறா? நமக்கும் நிறைய அளப்பா”என்றாராம்.

மறுநாள், விச்வநாதய்யரால் நம்பவே முடியவில்லை! அந்தக் கிராமத்தில் ஏதாவது திருவிழா நடந்ததா, அல்லது சந்தை கூடிற்றா, அல்லது இப்படி எதுவுமே
நடக்காமல் பெரியவாளின் சக்தி மட்டும்தான் வேலை செய்ததா என்று அவருக்குச் சொல்ல தெரியவில்லை.

ஆனால் சொல்லத் தெரிந்தது, மறுநாள் காலையிலிருந்து அந்த நிர்மாநுஷ்யக் குக்கிராமத்தில் புற்றீசலாகப் பக்தர்கள் பெரியவாளை வழிபட வந்து கொண்டேயிருந்ததுதான். வந்தது மட்டும் இல்லை.

அக்காலத்தில் வெள்ளி நாணயம் வழங்கி வந்ததல்லவா? வந்த பக்தர்கள் யாவரும் இப்படி நாணயங்களைக் கொண்டு வந்து கொட்டினார்கள். “நான் மடத்திலே இருந்திருக்கிற இந்த நாற்பது வருஷமா இதை (எஸ்,வி.என்னிடம் கூறியது சுமார் பத்து ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு-கட்டுரை-1960-பின் பாதியில்) அந்த மாதிரி ஒத்தை ஒத்தை ரூபாயா வந்து குன்று மாதிரி குவிஞ்சதேயில்லை! மடத்து ஜாகையிலே எல்லாத்தையும் சேத்துக் குவிச்சு எண்ணிட்டுப் படியாலே எடுத்து எடுத்துச் சாக்கிலே போட்டுக் கட்டினோம்.

பெரியவாள்,”அம்பாள்,’படி’ அளப்பாள்’னு சொன்னேன். ஒனக்கு நம்பிக்கைப் படலை. இப்ப நீயே ‘படியாலே’ அளந்து அளந்து கொட்டறே, பாத்தியா?”ன்னா!

“பெரியவாளுக்குத் தெரியாதது எதுவும் இல்லை. பெரியவா செய்ய முடியாதது எதுவும் இல்லை. இருந்தாலும் ‘எங்களைக் கூட வெச்சுண்டு ஆட்டம் போட்டிருக்கா” என்று முடித்தார் விச்வநாதையர்
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Message For the Day…” Make Every Effort to Understand the Immanent Divinity …”

Recognize the Divine within yourself. Open the doors of your heart. Develop love more and more. Understand the truth. Experience God. There lies the bliss. Make every effort to understand the immanent Divinity. The Divinity within you is covered by ego and anger. Therefore, real knowledge dawns when attachment is destroyed (Moham hithva punar vidya). Where does this attachment come from? Excessive desires lead to attachment. You may attain temporary peace by undertaking repetition of the name (Japa), meditation (dhyana), andyoga. To attain permanent peace, you must develop love within. Love can turn earth into sky and sky into earth. This sacred love is within you. But, you direct it in the wrong direction and thereby it gets perverted. Develop the sacred Love within you to realise your innate Divinity.  

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” Do Not Get Carried Away by Pain or Pleasure …”

Penance does not mean retiring to the forest and living on fruits and tubers. In fact such a life can be called a life of dullness (thamas), not penance (thapas). True penance lies in controlling one’s emotions, thoughts, words and deeds arising out of Sathwic,Rajasic and Thamasic qualities. You should contemplate on God at all times and achieve harmony of thought, word and deed. A noble person is one whose thoughts, words and deeds are in complete harmony (Manasyekam Vachasyekam Karmanyekam Mahatmanam). Do not be carried away by pain or pleasure. The Gita teaches that you should be even-minded in happiness or sorrow, gain or loss, victory or defeat. You should discharge your duty with utmost sincerity and serve society without any expectation of reward. Such even-mindedness and desireless state is true penance.

 Sathya Sai Baba

Message for the Day…” Master the Mind and Be a Mastermind …”

All spiritual practices (Sadhana) will go in vain if you do not know your true identity. Instead of asking others, “Who are you?” ask yourself, “Who am I?” We say, “This is my book, this is my tumbler.” Then, “Who am I? The feeling of ‘my’ is illusion (maya). All this ‘mine’ is matter; they are negative. You think you are the master of this material world. Master the mind and be a mastermind! Make an effort to know your true identity. To know this, you should first give up body attachment. When I say this is ‘my handkerchief’, I am separate from the handkerchief. Similarly, when I say this is ‘my body’, I am separate from the body. When I say, ‘my mind’ it means I am separate from my mind. Then who am I? Constant enquiry on these lines would lead you to self realisation.   

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Message for the Day…” You will Experience Divinity Only When…”

People get carried away by the body and forget the Divinity within. Have strong faith in God. Do not have faith in this body, which is temporary. Body is like a water bubble, mind is like a mad monkey. Don’t follow the body, don’t follow the mind. Follow your conscience. That is the principle of the Divine Self (Atma). You will experience Divinity only when you follow your conscience. Love everybody, but do not trust anybody. You have to repose your trust only in God. What is the reason? Why should you not trust others? It is because Man is impermanent. God expects only love. You can cultivate love easily. Love is within you, develop it. You have to share this love with everybody. Love even the one who hates you. To harm a person who harmed you is nothing great. Real greatness lies in loving even the person who harmed you.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message for the Day…What is Divine Love ?

True and Selfless Love manifests as sacrifice. Such love knows no hatred. It envelops the entire universe, and is capable of drawing near even those who are seemingly far away. In the phenomenal world, you come across many shades and derivatives of this primordial love. You love your father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, friends and others. In all such cases, there is always a tinge of selfishness somewhere or the other. Divine love, on the other hand, is totally free of even the slightest trace of selfishness. You must surrender to such love, become completely submerged by it, and experience the bliss it confers. True and Selfless Love manifests itself as sacrifice. For acquiring Divine love, the quality of Kshama(forbearance and patience) is a vital necessity. Every individual must cultivate this noble quality.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Time to Thank Good Harvest ….

Bonfire tales – The Hindu.

At the Annual Winter Camp, Prithvi found out about harvest festivals in other parts of India. He also realised it was a time to give thanks for the good harvest.

A nice article in The Hindu is being shared with you all…

 

natarajan

Message for the Day…”Appreciate the Bounty and Beauty of Nature … “

Spend your time in the contemplation of the bounty and beauty of Nature spread out before you on earth and sky – green expanses of the crops, cool breezes that waft contentment and joy, the panorama of coloured clouds, the music of the birds and so on. Sing the glory of the Lord as you walk along the path, amidst the fields, the banks and the waterways. Do not talk hatefully in the midst of all this evidence of love; do not get angry, in these placid surroundings; do not disturb the sky with your shouts and curses. Do not pollute the air with vengeful boasts. A seedling needs water and manure to grow and yield rich harvest. The tiny sapling of spiritual yearning for liberation also needs you to do these – set right your habits, purify your conduct and cleanse your behaviour.

 Sathya Sai Baba