Thursday, July 3, 2025
Be always in the good company (satsang) of His devotees. Through this good company, discrimination and renunciation (viveka and vairagya) will be implanted and increased. These will strengthen the spirit and endow you with inner peace. Your mind will then merge in God.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
By systematic practice, relentless inquiry, and detachment (vairagya), the mind can be mastered. There is no task that cannot be accomplished by steady practice. Place faith in the Lord and practice with certainty that you have the power and the grace, and all tasks become easy.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Strive to acquire love; try to achieve love. Love is your real property. Realize this truth. There is no other quality greater and valuable than love. Even if some such quality exists, it is of no real use for the goal of life. Therefore, try to recognize the love manifest in every human being.
Monday, June 30, 2025
You should have the firm conviction that you, being the embodiments of love, are basically divine. Your life will be redeemed once you know that you are a spark of the divine. You forget your divine nature as you get deluded by various names and forms in this world. Your heart is the temple of God. Turn your vision inward and find Him there. It is a very easy path to divinity.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Divine love will never decline. It is steady and changeless. You should make efforts to attain such true and eternal love. You are not able to experience this love due to your limitless desires. Life is like a long journey and desires are the luggage. Following the principle of less luggage, more comfort makes travel a pleasure. You will be free from worries and problems once you reduce your desires.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Where there is selfishness, there is fear. Where there is no selfishness, there is no fear. People should have no trace of selfishness in their love. They can have even the vision of the divine through selfless love. Love is selflessness; self is lovelessness. God has no specific form. Love is God; live in love.
Friday, June 27, 2025
The whole world is permeated with love. You are all the embodiments of love. You may or may not have any other quality, but every one of you has love. In this world, there is nobody without love.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
You have no need to go in search of love elsewhere. It is within you. A person makes every effort to accumulate wealth. An equal effort is needed to acquire the wealth of love. Human beings today invest their assets of love in pitiful ventures. Instead, they should invest all their love in the divine bank of devotion. This deposit is not only safe but will yield you increasing returns in terms of bliss.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Purity of the heart is more important than all rituals and penances. Develop a vision that will broaden your heart and enable you to help others and not hurt them. Dedicate all actions to God.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
The Lord is not swayed by wealth or scholarship, power, or position. Love alone can move God. If you wish to please the Lord, you must offer love and love alone. Today unfortunately love has become scarce. Even material love is disappearing. But God’s love is boundless. In whatever manner you may love God, God responds in equal measure.
Monday, June 23, 2025
In the family in which you live, there should be mutual understanding and cooperation, and a sense of harmony. There should be no discord in the family. A harmonious atmosphere will give you true peace of mind.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Speaking truth is a supreme virtue for all people, anywhere. In any circumstance, one should adhere to the truth. Truth is God incarnate. Righteousness should accompany one like a shadow. You can achieve anything in life when you have truth and righteousness as your guiding stars. All powers are inherent in these two virtues.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Perform all your actions with purity of heart. Actions performed without a pure heart are futile. Even if a little work is done with a pure heart, it becomes fruitful.
Friday, June 20, 2025
The God-centered person (sadhaka) has three qualities: purity, perseverance and patience. Without these qualities, a person is a weakling. But with them, one has all the strength and courage needed to face any challenge.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
There should be no ostentation or showing off in any undertaking by a devotee. Unless ostentation is given up, egoism will not leave. The ego must be eliminated to purify the heart. No good deed can be done without purity of the heart. It is through sacred deeds that the heart is purified.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Contemplate on the divine name, irrespective of religion, caste, creed, or gender. You can always chant the divine name of your liking. If you constantly contemplate and chant the divine name, it will purify your thoughts and feelings. Never forget the divine name. If you constantly contemplate the divine name, your life will surely be sanctified.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
When the heart is filled with good thoughts and feelings, all that comes out of the senses–your speech, your vision, and your actions will be pure.
Monday, June 16, 2025
There is no nobler quality in the world than love. It is wisdom. It is righteousness. It is wealth. It is truth. Everything is permeated with love. Everything in the cosmos arises from love, grows with love, and merges in love.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
The Gayatri has three parts: 1. Praise, 2. Meditation, and 3. Prayer. First, the divine is praised, then it is meditated upon in reverence and lastly, an appeal is made to the divine to dispel the darkness of ignorance and to awaken and strengthen the intellect. Dhīmahi is related to the meditative aspect. Dhīyo yonah prachodayāt relates to the aspect of prayer. Chanting the Gayatri Mantra purifies the mind and confers devotion, detachment and wisdom.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Recite the Gayatri. When you bathe, the body is cleansed; let your mind and intellect also be cleansed. Make it a point to repeat it when you bathe as well as before every meal, when you wake from sleep, and when you go to bed. And also repeat peace (shanti) thrice at the end, for that repetition will give peace to three entities in you - body, mind, and soul.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Bear in mind the three P's - Purity, Patience and Perseverance. With these three you are bound to acquire good health and bliss.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Once you understand the principle of love, you can understand the entire universe. First and foremost, man should have strong faith. Where there is faith, there is love; where there is love, there is truth; where there is truth, there is peace. You don’t need to search for peace elsewhere. It is within you.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Pure thoughts and feelings will always keep us cheerful. I am always cheerful. People wonder how Sai Baba could always be smiling. I cannot help but smile. I have no negative feelings, no bad traits, no bad thoughts nor any bad habits. I am always pure. You too should follow this example.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Keep the Name of the Lord always radiant on your tongue and mind. That will keep the vagaries of the mind under control.
Monday, June 9, 2025
For a bulb to light, you need a connecting wire, a switch and electric current. For man, that current is truth or God. It is energy. This divine energy must flow through the wire of right conduct (dharma) and reach the bulb of peace (shanti) and produce the light of love (prema).
Sunday, June 8, 2025
At the outset, the ego has to be destroyed. Then anger will subside. Do your duty. Do not project your ego. Develop mutual helpfulness. Carry on with your work with joy. Be friendly towards each other. It is only when you behave in this manner that you will realize the benefits of spiritual practice. Through love, eliminate your bad traits.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
It is essential to recite the Gayatri mantra at least three times during the morning, noon, and evening. This will serve to reduce the effects of one’s karma. It is like buying goods for cash, instead of getting them on credit. There is no accumulation of karmic (a result of action) debt since each day's karma (action) is atoned for that day itself by reciting the Gayatri mantra.
Friday, June 6, 2025
Names and forms may be different, but all beings are part and parcel of the same divine principle. You may call this a handkerchief. You may call this a robe. But both are made of cotton. Likewise, divinity is the underlying principle in the apparent multiplicity of this world.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
What is the real meaning of liberation (moksha)? The removal of attachment is liberation. So long as one has attachment, one cannot think of liberation. Hence, one should strive for detachment in the first instance.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
God does not consider how wealthy or how learned you are; He is concerned only with the sincerity and purity of your mind and heart and about how wholehearted and genuine your love is.