Sri Sathya Sai International Organization

God is pleased by inner feelings not outward display. He sees the feeling behind your actions. The world is interested in outward show, but God is interested in your feelings. Hence, purify your feelings in the first instance.

Never brood over the past. When grief overpowers you, do not recollect similar incidents in your past experience and add to the sum of your grief, focus on incidents that made you happy instead. Draw consolation and strength from such memories and raise yourself above the surging waters of sorrow.

Have steady faith in the Atma; then dedicate all your acts to Me. Engage in the battle of life with no desire for the fruit of your actions, no selfishness, and no sense of possession or pride. If the wheel of creation is to move smoothly, each one must keep on doing action (karma).

God's love cannot be acquired with wealth; neither with education nor by the various spiritual exercises one undertakes. It is possible only by offering pure, unconditional, and unselfish love for love's sake; only then can one achieve divinity.

You will become divine when you realize the oneness of all human beings. You belong to the same universal family. Such being the case, why should you give room for hatred and conflicts? Love everybody. Love is eternal, immortal, and nectarine.

Why should you search for bliss outside when it is already present in you? You are deluded into thinking that you can get happiness from worldly objects. There is no happiness in this world. Everything is in you.

A clean mirror reflects the rays of the sun. Similarly, we can see the sun’s image reflected by the calm surface of clear water. Likewise, the sacred vision of the supreme Self is revealed to an unperturbed and tranquil mind in which all thought waves have been calmed.

Divinity is the same in everyone, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Sikh, or a Christian. There is only one religion, the religion of love. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. Develop unity, chant the divine name. What an exalted position the country would attain if all its people were to chant the divine name in unity!

Do not seek to find fault in others, give up maligning and injuring others. Do not scandalize anyone; do not harbor envy or malice. Be always sweet in temperament, in talk. Fill your conversation with devotion and humility.

You belong to the human race. So develop human values. Today the world is fragmented as people have forgotten human values. Unity of the world can thus be strengthened by developing human values. A true human being should have harmony of pure thoughts, words, and deeds.

Really speaking, people have come into this field of activity (karma kshetra) only to engage themselves in activity, not to earn the fruit of such activity. That is the teaching of Gita, its fundamental lesson.

The power of love alone confers true strength. All other powers are of no avail. Hence the only strength we should seek from God is the strength of love. With that strength, all powers can be acquired.

Guru Poornima means full moon without any defect or lacuna. Moon is nothing but the mind. When the mind is completely perfect, it sheds light. Guru Poornima is not performed by circumambulation and offerings to the guru. What is the real offering? It is the offering of one's love. To know that God exists everywhere is circumambulation. If you understand these terms, every day is Guru Poornima. There is only one guru, that is God and there is no other guru. Contemplate on that guru.

Man is consumed by time. God is the master of time. So, take refuge in God. Let God be your guru, your path, your Lord. Adore Him, obey His commands, offer Him your grateful homage, hold Him fast in your memory. This is the easiest way to realize Him as your own reality. This is the one and only way.