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| The logo at the top of this page is the logo of the International Sai Organization. We ask that you respect it and don't use it except for Sai Organization matters. The logo contains the five human values that form the foundation of Bhagavaan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's education-in-human-values program: truth (sathya), righteousness (dharma), peace (santhi), divine love (prema), and nonviolence (ahimsa). Also pictured in the logo is a tall pillar, called the sarva dharma (world religions) stupa, with a lotus flower on it. (Literally, sarva means entire, whole, every kind of; and dharma means righteousness, morality, virtue, duty, the dictates of God, code of conduct.) This pillar is near the temple in Prasanthi Nilayam (Sathya Sai Baba's
main ashram in India). At its base are symbols of five of the world's
major religions, along with the associated sayings shown below. The pillar,
with its concentric rings, represents yoga, or Union with God.
The rings indicate the stages of yogic discipline required for unfolding
the "lotus of the heart", whose petals are at the top of the pillar. The
flame of inner illumination is in the center of the lotus. Just as the
lotus plant lives in water but does not get contaminated by it, so we
should live in the world but be untouched by it.
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