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Message for the Day…”Need for harmony between thoughts, words, and deeds…”

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A person’s life depends upon three essential things – thoughts, words and deeds. When desires arise, one immediately takes it to their mind. For any thought, mind is the basis. The thought that comes to your mind will be exposed to the world as a word from your mouth, and once you utter those words, then, to put it into practice, you take action. When you are able to apply these three—thought, word, and action along the right path, you earn merit (punya); but if you apply them along the wrong path, you earn sin. Thus for good and bad, you need thoughts, words, and deeds. Only when there is harmony between thoughts, words, and actions; you will be able to recognise your own true nature. To keep them pure and in harmony, you must undertake some kind of sadhana(spiritual practice). This is of utmost need today.

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Message for the Day…” Offer your heart to God…and gladly undergo transformation under HIS hands…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Offer your entire self, your life Unto Him; then your adoration will transform and transmute you so fast and so completely that you and He can be merged into One. He thinks, feels and acts as you do; you think, feel and act as He does. You will be transformed as a rock is transformed by the sculptor, into an idol, deserving the worship of generations of sincere men. In the process you will have to bear many a hammer stroke, many a chisel-wound, for He is the sculptor. He is but releasing you from petrification! Offer your heart to the Lord, and gladly suffer transformation at His hands. Do not defile time, or the physical sheath, or this life’s chance, using them for paltry ends. Your life is but one long pilgrimage which you entered when you were born, and may not end even when you die. Never forget that. Be pure, alert and humble as pilgrims ought to be.

Message for the Day…” Meaning of Sai baba…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Consider the meaning of the name ‘Sai Baba’. ‘Sa’ means Divine; ‘ai’ or ‘ayi’ means mother, and ‘Baba’ means father. Your physical parents exhibit love with a dose of selfishness; but Sai, your Divine Mother and Father, showers affection or reprimands only to lead you towards victory in the struggle for self-realisation. Sai descended as Avatar to achieve the supreme task of uniting the entire mankind as one family through the bond of brotherhood, of affirming and illumining the Divine (Atmic) reality in every being. Divinity is the basis for the entire cosmos, and My mission is to instruct all to recognise the common divine heritage that binds one person to another, so that you can rid yourself of the animal, and rise to the Divine! I desire that you contemplate on this, derive joy and be inspired to observe the spiritual disciplines I laid down to progress toward the goal of realising Sai, who shines in your hearts.

Message for the Day….” My Grace is ever available to my Devotees who have steady love and faith …”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Since I moved freely among people, talking and singing with them, even intellectuals were unable to grasp My truth, My power, My glory, or My real task as Avatar. I can solve any problem however knotty. I am beyond the reach of the most intensive enquiry and the most meticulous measurement. Only those who have recognised My love and experienced it can assert that they have glimpsed My reality. Do not attempt to know Me through the external eyes. When you go to a temple and stand before the image of God, you pray with closed eyes, don’t you? Why? Because you feel that the inner eye of wisdom alone can reveal Him to you. Therefore do not crave from Me trivial material objects; but, crave for Me from within, and you will be rewarded. The path of Love is the royal road that leads mankind to Me. My grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith.

Message for the Day….” It is your duty to follow and practice the twin principles of Truth and Righteousness…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Ravana (the villain in Ramayana) sought wealth and gratification of desire, utterly violating the principle of dharma. He was a scholar par excellence. He had mastered the sixty-four disciplines of learning whereas Rama had mastered only thirty-two. However Rama put them into practice and thereby digested them, whereas Ravana failed to digest them. The indigestion on the part of Ravana arose in the form of desire (kama), which ultimately destroyed him. While Rama was the embodiment of Dharma, Ravana remained as the embodiment of kama. Thus there arose a conflict between righteousness and unrighteousness. Rama transformed Himself into the embodiment of sathya (Truth), since He followed the principle ofdharma. Since Ravana violated dharma, he became the embodiment of asathya (untruth). There is an eternal warfare between righteousness and unrighteousness, truth and untruth. It is your duty to follow and practice the twin principles of truth and righteousness.

Message for the Day….” Lord Rama is the reality in our daily existence…”

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Consider each brother, sister, comrade, companion, and collaborator of Rama as an example of a person saturated with Righteousness (dharma). In Ramayana, Dasaratha is the representative of the merely physical, with the ten senses. The three qualities (gunas) — serenity, activity, and ignorance (satva, rajasand tamas), are the three queens. The four goals of life, thepurusharthas — righteousness, wealth, fulfilment of desires, and liberation are the four sons. Lakshmana is the intellect; Sugriva is discrimination (viveka); Vali is despair; and Hanuman is the embodiment of courage. The bridge is built over the ocean of delusion. The three Rakshasa chiefs, Ravana, Kumbhakarna, and Vibhishana, are personifications of the active (rajasic), ignorant (tamasic), and pure (sattvic) qualities. Sita is the Awareness of the Universal Divinity (Brahma-jnana), which the individual must acquire and regain while undergoing travails in the crucible of life. Be established in the faith that the Lord (Rama) is the Reality in your daily existence.

Message for the Day…” Each one of us should try to mould ourselves according to the great example set by Rama…”

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The four brothers in Ramayana were the embodiments of the four Vedas. Rig Veda is the embodiment of speech (vaak); Yajur Veda is the embodiment of the mind (manas); Sama Veda is of the life principle (prana); and Atharvana Veda is of the intellect (buddhi). Thus the four Vedas strolled with Dasaratha as Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha, and Shatrughna. We will not gain much if we let ourselves be dominated by the mistaken notion that Rama is the Embodiment of Divinity and that He is beyond our reach. We should realise the fact that the Lord descended on earth to demonstrate an ideal to mankind. Hence every human being should mould themselves according to the great example set by Rama. Rama lives in every human heart as the enchanting principle, as the Divine Self within. There is none in this world in whom the Self is absent. Hence the Rama principle exists in everyone.

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Message for the Day….” Lessons we learn from Ramayana ….”

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Sathya Sai Baba

Rama is the Indweller in every body. He is the Atma-Rama – the Rama (Source of Bliss) in every individual. His blessings upsurging from that inner spring will confer peace and bliss. He is the very embodiment of righteousness, of all the codes of morality that hold mankind together in love and unity. The story of Rama, ‘Ramayana’, teaches us two lessons: the value of detachment and the need to become aware of the Divine in every being. Faith in God and detachment from objective pursuits are the keys for human liberation. Give up sense objects, and you gain Rama. Mother Sita (Rama’s consort) gave up the luxuries of Ayodhya so she could be with Rama, in the period of exile. When she cast longing eyes on the golden deer and craved for it, she lost the presence of Rama. Renunciation leads to joy; attachment brings about grief. Be in the world, but not of it. Make your heart pure and strong, contemplating the grandeur of the Ramayana.

Message for the Day…..” what is Immortality …” ?

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Sathya Sai Baba

My earnest wish is that youth evince keen interest in the moral and spiritual principles of the Ramayana and fully benefit from it. Elders too should mould their lives in consonance with morality and spirituality. Neither wealth nor scholarship can bring you happiness. Only the Love of God confers endless bliss on you. It not only bestows happiness but gives extreme strength as well. You must seek learning that confers immortality. What is Immortality? The removal of immorality is immortality. Human life, which is mortal, is bound to perish one day or the other. Hence we must strive for morality, which is imperishable. This moral splendour is the need of the universe today. It is My earnest wish that our students should cultivate moral splendour and strive for the welfare and upliftment of the Universe, particularly at a time when selfishness and self-interest are so rampant.

Message for the Day…” Lord Rama’s name cleanses all evil and transforms the sinner…”

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Sathya Sai Baba

The name Rama is the essence of scriptures (Vedas); Lord Rama’s story is an ocean of milk, pure and potent. Ramayana, the epic describing Lord Rama’s incarnation is a sacred text, reverently recited by the scholar as well as the ignorant, the millionaire as well as the pauper. Lord Rama’s name cleanses all evil and transforms the sinner; it reveals the charming form represented by the name. Ramayana must be read not as a record of a human career but as a narrative of the advent and activities of an incarnation of God (Avatar). You must endeavor with determination to realise through your own experience the ideals revealed in that narrative. God is all-knowing, all-pervasive, and all-powerful. The words He utters while embodied in the human form, the acts He deigns to indulge in during His earthly sojourn — these are inscrutable and extraordinarily significant. The precious springs of His message ease the path of deliverance for humanity.