All-India Conference of Workers of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organizations
22 November 1970
THE thought manifests as word, the word manifests as deed; the deed develops into habit; the habit hardens into character. So, watch the thought and its ways. Let it spring from love, love that is born out of respect for all beings, for, all beings are Divine. You are all embodiments of the Divine. Never forget that reality. Since two days, you have been listening to spiritual discourses and moving in holy thoughts. This All-India Conference for which you have come is just an excuse, for bringing you all here and charging you with Grace, for carrying on your duties with greater zest and understanding. Through the Units of the Organisation of which you are the Office-bearers, you are worshipping God. For, service to man is service to God. When God comes embodied as man to serve man, how delighted He must be to find man himself taking up the role and serving brother-man to get rid of disease, distress or doubt! You have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another, for, your...
First Overseas Convention of Chairs of Sai Centres
20 November 1998
Punar viththam punar mithram Punar bharya punar mahi, Ethath sarvam punar labhyam Na sareeram punah punah.
Embodiments of Love! Wealth once lost can be regained by one way or the other. If a friend is lost, one can make many more through good feelings. If a wife is lost, one can marry again. If land is lost, it can be reacquired through some means. But once the body is lost. it can never be regained.
“Sareeramadyam khalu dharma sadhanam (the body is gifted to man to undertake righteous actions.)” So, it has to be sanctified by performing sacred deeds. Health is very essential in order to do so. In fact, health is the very foundation on which human life rests. If health is lost, you have to suffer in many ways. There is no greater wealth than health. The body is a combination of different limbs. So, only when all limbs are utilised for sacred purposes can one have pushti and santushti (good health and happiness). For a healthy mind, one should have a healthy body. The Atma sustains ...
THE task before mankind is to plant the seeds of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love in the heart made ready for their reception, to foster the saplings and watch over them with love and care until they grow into trees yielding a rich harvest of sweet fruits, and to enable all to share in that sustaining repast. Sages who had succeeded in this beneficial culture have laid down the means and methods, the steps and slips, the helps and hindrances, that men have to consider while engaged In this task, and millions have benefited by their counsel. But never before has this become an organised movement in which the entire humanity was involved. Unless it becomes so, there can be no liberation from fear, anxiety and injustice. The sages of India knew that man was fundamentally Divine. They sought to make man aware of his inner Reality and expand that spark of Divinity into Light that can illumine the individual and society in the splendour of love.
Renunciation alone leads to Immortality
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