Past Sai Messages for the Day
Monday, October 20, 2025
You do not now realize your good boon in getting Me as the Guide. I shall not rest until I reform all of you. The foundation for My work has been completed; now, the structure will rise upon it.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
You don’t know when the cameraman is going to click. The photographer at the Nilayam at least jumps about in front of you with the camera pointed at this place or that, but death will not give any advance notice or say ‘ready’ and wait until you are ready. Therefore, be ready always, so that you may produce a good impression with God’s name on your lips and His form in your cleansed heart.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Education and wealth are good in themselves, but when they are misused, they become harmful. The fault lies in the conduct of the people concerned. Humanness consists in leading a life free from egoism and selfish desire.
Friday, October 17, 2025
Everyone should manifest their divine essence as a spark of the divine. It is the result of good deeds from many lives to be born as a human being. Man must lead an exemplary life.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Humanness means harmony in thought, word, and deed. The absence of this harmony is degrading. People should learn to respect one another. The divine is present in everyone.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Truth is one (Ekam Sath). Unity is truth. Unity is divinity. God is not separate from you. God is manifest in you. Unfortunately, you are forgetting this truth. If you forget your own nature, it amounts to forgetting everything else. Never forget your reality.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Reality is not somewhere in a distant place. It is within you. Your very nature is reality. How can you realize this truth? Only by cultivating pure, selfless, and divine love.
Monday, October 13, 2025
By regulating your diet and avoiding certain bad habits, you can preserve your health. Moderate amount of food and pure (satwic) food will promote mental poise and also physical happiness.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
The divine is omnipresent and is in everyone and every object. This truth must be realized from the message conveyed by inhaling and exhaling that goes on in everyone 21,600 times daily. Each act of breathing proclaims the message: Sohum (I am He). With every breath, the message is revealed: ’I am God.’ Realizing this oneness, all actions should be done as an act of dedication to the divine. Unending bliss can be experienced in such a state of mind!
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Happiness is true holiness. True bliss lies in cultivating the principle of love and leading a life of contentment. We should always be content. When there is no contentment, worries raise their head. All troubles are created by worrying.
Friday, October 10, 2025
Regular prayers twice a day will give you strength and courage which can help you withstand illness. The grace of God will confer mental peace, good sleep and rest for the mind. Feel that you are a hundred percent dependent on God and He will look after you and save you from harm and injury. When you go to bed, thank God for guiding and guarding you throughout the day.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Turn your mind toward God; dedicate yourselves to God; then you will find life one continuous stream of bliss (ananda). Have a fan in your hand and swing it toward you; then, you feel comforted. So also, use the mind as the instrument and turn it vigorously toward God; then, it will give you the bliss of liberation.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Service is the easiest path to attain divine grace. Offer service and receive the love of God. Love and service are like two wings by which one can soar to higher levels of consciousness. If you have the spirit of love and service, divine grace will follow you like a shadow wherever you may be, whether in the forest or the sky, village or city, river, or mountain cliff.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
When you travel by train, you have only to purchase the ticket, enter the proper train, and take a seat, leaving the rest to the engine. Why should you carry the bed and trunk on your head? So too, put your trust in the Lord and carry on to the best of your ability. Have faith in the Lord and His grace.
Monday, October 6, 2025
All of you are Embodiments of Divinity. Your forms are divine. You and God are one. You are not different from God. Experience this unity.
Sunday, October 5, 2025
People should understand the distinction between worldly love and spiritual love. Worldly love is based on the desire to receive. Divine love yearns to give. God’s love goes on giving. This is the true mark of divinity. It is a sign of purity.
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Virtues have to be cultivated in the home; each member sharing joy, each one seeking opportunities to help others. This attitude has to be constantly practiced.
Friday, October 3, 2025
If you inhale the pure air of truth (sathya), righteousness (dharma), peace (shanti), and love (prema), your mind will be free from evil qualities. You will be mentally sturdy and physically strong. As Vivekananda used to say, you should have nerves of steel and muscles of iron. That is to say, you should have hope, joy and elation as an unshakable resolution, not despair and dejection.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
There is no greater spiritual path than the path of love. It is through love that such noble qualities as kindness, compassion, and sympathy are fostered. You are carrying out a variety of spiritual exercises (sadhanas). God does not seek your sadhanas. Nor does He seek your devotion. God seeks only your love.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
If you shed your ego and experience divinity, you will get rid of your pain and enjoy lasting bliss. The Upanishads teach through stories the subtlest truths. You should understand their inner significance and taste the nectarine sweetness. This is possible only when there is inner purity. Purity of heart leads to Self-realization.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Love is the principle of God. Having got this love in you, why should you suffer? Why do you have problems? In fact, you have no difficulties and no anxieties. There is only bliss. But how can you experience bliss? You have to follow the path of love.
Monday, September 29, 2025
Just by repeating the names of the dishes, your hunger will not be appeased. You have to use your hands and mouth to fill your stomach. In the same way, you have to speak sweet words and do sacred actions. Through these, you will enjoy the sweetness of life and you will be blissful.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
You have actually not experienced bliss. Once you experience divine bliss, your mind will never crave for worldly pleasures. So, try to experience this bliss, which is within you. Bliss is your source, bliss is your breath and bliss is your life.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
The inauguration of the Navarathri celebrations means that you should use this occasion for offering worship to Nature and resolving to make sacred use of all natural resources.
Friday, September 26, 2025
The Navarathri celebration is an occasion for revering Nature and considering how natural resources can be used properly in the best interests of mankind. Resources like water, air, power, and minerals should be used properly and not misused or wasted.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
In order to preserve and sustain the strong spiritual foundation laid by the saints and noble souls, we have to foster human values such as Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love, and Nonviolence. If you protect these values, they will in turn protect you.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
To secure the grace of the Lord, one has to have purity of the heart, purity in speech and purity in action. This triple purity is described in Vedantic parlance as Tripurasundari.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Navarathri means nine nights. Darkness is associated with night. What is this darkness? It is the darkness of ignorance. The purpose of the Navarathri celebration is to enable man to get rid of nine types of darkness which have taken hold of him.
Monday, September 22, 2025
The observance of the Navarathri celebration is to get rid of the darkness in which man is enveloped, by cultivating the triple purity of thought, word and deed.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Aspirants and devotees must ignore and forget all the thousand troubles that have gone before and be engaged only in thoughts of the Lord. Immerse yourselves in the thoughts of the Lord and derive joy therefrom. Devotion has no other reward. It is the cause, and it is also the effect; there are no two. Devotion is itself the realization.