Past Sai Messages for the Day
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Some persons gathered around Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and asked him: "Sir! Have you seen God?" Ramakrishna had a hearty laugh. He said: "Yes! I have seen God as I am seeing you. All are forms of God. However, your vision is different. You look at all people as human beings. But all that you see is divine. Why are you failing to see the divine? You cry about your wife, your children, your wealth, and your position. Have you ever cried for God in the same way? No. When you cry for God intensely, God will appear before you." Once you renounce your bad qualities, you will experience God.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
God is the embodiment of love. He is completely selfless. Those who follow Him should be selfless, too. When your hearts are filled with divine love, you will be able to pursue oneness in the whole creation. When this unity pervades our hearts, there would be no scope for hatred toward others. This eternal love will get established in our hearts with the experience of unity of all existence. Therefore, those who follow the divine and inculcate divine love are truly fortunate.
Monday, February 26, 2024
Always be happy and cheerful, for your innate nature is bliss. You need not go in search of happiness. Bliss emerges out of divine Self (Atma). Whenever you wish for it, you will get it. Happiness is a union with God. Therefore, always be in the company of God. Once you are in the company of God, happiness will follow you like a shadow.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Cultivate pure love, for purity is unity, and that unity is divinity. Let your individual love be transformed into pure love for God. Sometimes, people have a doubt whether God's love toward them has undergone a change. Never. God's love will never undergo a change. For example, you have a log of wood. You can make any kind of furniture with it, like a chair or a bench. But the basic material, that is, wood, remains the same. Similarly, God's love always remains unchanged.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Select any name of His, any name that appeals to you, select any form of His. Every day, when you awaken to the call of the brightening east, recite the name and meditate on the form. Have the name and the form as your companion, guide, and guardian throughout the toils of the waking hours. When you retire for the night, offer grateful homage to God in that form and with that name for being with you, by you, beside you, before you, and behind you all day long. If you stick to this discipline, you cannot falter or fail.
Friday, February 23, 2024
What should be the characteristics of people in the Sai Organization? Their hearts should be cool, like the moon. Their minds should be pure like butter. Their speech should be sweet, like honey. It is only when you have a heart cool as the moon, a mind pure as butter, and speech sweet as honey, that you will be a worthy member of the Organization. When these three qualities are present, there will be divinity.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
So long as there is anger, one cannot be free from sorrow. One will be respected by all only when the anger is given up. One with greed can never attain happiness. One can be happy and make others happy only when greed is given up.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
We have friends and foes, likes and dislikes, whereas Vedanta teaches us to develop equal mindedness. Just as we do not punish our teeth for accidentally biting our tongue because we consider both organs as parts of our body, so also, we have to bear in mind that the eternal and universal Atma (divine Self) resides in everyone and everywhere. We should not accentuate differences but concentrate on unity.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The highest love (prema) is the attachment to God that does not allow anything to interfere with or diminish its quality or depth. God is loved by the devotee (bhaktha) for His sake, not for any incidental benefit or blessing. It is spontaneous, sustaining, and sublime, like a child before the mirror enjoying the reflections of its own pranks and gestures.
Monday, February 19, 2024
Faith in the almighty God is the impregnable armor that the spiritual aspirant (sadhaka) can wear. People of all lands are spiritual aspirants whether they know it or not. Be steady, do not waver, keep straight on, and hold fast to the ideal without despair. Pray until God relents; do not turn away sadly if God does not shower grace when you expect it.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
You may call Him by any name and worship Him in any form, but God is one. Never forget this principle of unity. Unfortunately, people fragment unity into diversity. Try to visualize unity in diversity. This is the true service that people are supposed to undertake.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Whatever other things they may possess, people suffer from a lack of peace and bliss. These two can be obtained only from God. It is for these two that one should pray to God and not for anything else because God alone can give them. When these are secured, all other things will come of their own accord by the grace of God. People should yearn for God. All other desires are worthless.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Believe that all hearts are motivated by the one and only God, that all faiths glorify the one and only God, and that all names in all languages and all forms people can conceive denote the one and only God. He is adored best by love. Cultivate an attitude of oneness (Ekabhava) between people of all creeds, all countries, and all continents.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
The divine principle that is in everyone is like the electric current that illuminates the bulbs before Me here, which are of different colors and different candle powers. The same God shines in and through everyone, regardless of creed, color, tribe, or territory. The current animates and activates all bulbs; the divine animates and activates all. Those who see the difference are deluded as they are befogged by prejudice, egoism, hatred, or malice. Love sees all as one divine family.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
It is by constant control of thoughts and desires that one can purify oneself and raise the level of consciousness. To the extent one reduces desires, willpower will grow.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Be a witness, do not crave the fruit of action, and leave the consequences of all acts to God’s will. He is the doer; you are but the instrument. Pursue nobler ends and have grander ideals. Sensory pleasures are trinkets and trivialities.
Monday, February 12, 2024
There are many who take part in service activities, but how many can enjoy the benefits derived therefrom? First, you should understand the term “service.” True service is that which is done with divine feelings, forgetting oneself. Service should be done as an offering to God. Service has value only when it is done with love for God (daivabhimana) and not attachment to the body (dehabhimana). Even a small act of service done with the sole intention of pleasing God will acquire great significance.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
All should remain united. Where there is unity, there shall be purity. Where there is purity, there is divinity. You all must lead your lives keeping in view these three aspects of unity, purity, and divinity. You should not remain unconcerned with others’ difficulties and suffering. Treat their suffering as your own. The one God dwells in the hearts of all people. God is immanent even in ants and mosquitoes. There should be compassion in your heart.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Devotion and faith are the two oars with which you can take the boat across the sea of worldly life. A child told its mother when it went to bed at night, “Mother! Wake me up when I get hungry.” The mother answered, “There is no need; your hunger will itself wake you.” So too, when the hunger for God comes, it will itself awake you and make you seek the food you need.
Friday, February 9, 2024
It is one's main duty to acquire a cool mind like the moonlight and shining wisdom like sunlight. As long as one is egoistic, none will love him, including one’s spouse and children. People will win the love of all when they give up their egos.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Among the preliminary qualifications for yearning to know Brahman, the first is discrimination (viveka) between the transitory and the eternal - in other words, the discovery that the Atma (divine Self) alone is beyond time and that all objects perceivable by the senses of sight, etc., are only transitory. The Atma alone suffers no change. It alone is a timeless truth (nithya sathya).
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Returning injury for injury, harm for harm, or insult for insult only adds to the karmic burden, which must be endured and eliminated in future lives. This burden is termed "impending (agami)." One can't escape the task of undergoing the consequences of one's thoughts, words, and deeds in due course. Paying evil for evil can never lighten the weight of karma; it will only become heavier. It might confer immediate relief and contentment but can only make the person suffer later. Forbearance (titiksha), therefore, instructs people to do good to those who injure them.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
For the growth of faith and the fostering of understanding, an essential requirement is the purity of the heart, the very base of thought (kshetra), and the levels of consciousness (chitta). Without this purity, the sudden effort of self-inquiry or investigation into the self-existent Atma, during diverse worldly and material entanglements will be rendered fruitless since it will not stem from an eager will.
Monday, February 5, 2024
God is present in every being as the eternal witness. This truth is proclaimed by 'Soham,' pronounced with each breath, 'So' with each inhalation, and ‘Ham’ with each exhalation. ‘So’ means That (God), and ‘Ham’ means I. This process goes on 21,600 times a day in every human being. In this manner, the inner voice reminds one of their divine nature many times every day.
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Though the objective world appears real, one must be aware that it is deluding us. As a result, one must give up the yearning to derive pleasure from the objects that appear and attract, both here and hereafter. One is liberated as soon as one renounces all attachment and all desires.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
The Lord is a mountain of love (prema). Any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaust His plenty. He is an ocean of mercy with a limitless shore. Devotion is the easiest way to win His grace and to realize that He pervades everything; in fact, He is everything! Total surrender, leaving everything to His will, is the highest form of devotion.
Friday, February 2, 2024
You need not waste time trying to discover Me and My nature. Understand what I teach, not "who is the teacher," for I am beyond your intellect and your power. You will understand Me only through My work. That is why, sometimes, to reveal "who I am," I show you My "visiting card," something that you call a miracle. Carry out the duty I assign you.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
The Lord is everyone’s father, in whose property everyone can claim a share. But to get the father’s property, one must reach a certain age, a certain standard of intelligence, and discrimination. God’s property is grace and love (prema). If you have discrimination and renunciation, you can claim your share, which is your right.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
If you want to attain happiness, you should understand that happiness is union with God. Every human being imagines that happiness is somewhere outside and strives to attain it through various activities. How did the ancient sages adore God? They worshipped God with the flower of sacrifice and offered their love to God. They welcomed God as the embodiment of truth. They believed in love, kindness, and oneness.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
If you want real, lasting happiness, you can get it only by union with God. God is all-pervasive. Why should you search for God while the Lord is within you? The body is like a water bubble, and the mind is a mad monkey. Don't follow them. You should follow only your conscience, sathya, the principle of truth. If you have an unpolluted heart and engage in unblemished action, you will experience the manifestation of God.