Past Sai Messages for the Day
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Withdraw from the outer to the inner and learn to visualize the motivator, the Atma, that is the lesson which the seers and scriptures teach. To engage ourselves in the purificatory exercises, to pursue the inquiry into the reality of God, Nature and Man, and to experience the ecstatic delight of that discovery, the body is essential. It has to be kept healthy and alert and free from passion and sloth.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
God is your sole refuge wherever you may be. In a forest, in the sky, in a city or a village, on the top of a mountain or in the middle of a deep sea. (Telugu poem) God is always with you, above you, behind you. He will always protect you. Develop this firm faith in your heart. God’s grace is not transitory. It will always be with you.
Friday, September 12, 2025
Detach yourselves from the craving for fame and comfort – that is to say, develop non-attachment, and you are free! Detachment alone can save you from entanglement and reveal the ultimate Truth.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Each and every moment should be spent in the contemplation of God. You may think, “If every moment is spent in the contemplation of God, then how is it possible to do our work?” Do not distinguish between your work and God’s work. Your work is God’s work, as God and you are one.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Yesterday is gone; today is a fresh chance, the new opportunity is now; tomorrow, you cannot be sure of. In fact, every minute is to be welcomed as unique and valuable, precious. Do not pine over the chunks of time you have wasted; seize the moment that has come within your grasp.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
From today, give up selfishness (swartha), turn your mind towards the Supreme (parartha), lead a life of Truth (yadartha) and sanctify your lives. Place your faith in God and do your duty to the best of your ability. Saturate yourself with love and share it with all. If you earn the love of God even to the slightest extent, you will experience infinite joy.
Monday, September 8, 2025
Truth is that which remains unchanged over time. You must live up to this Truth. You must realize that the Divine is present in everything. Only when you can recognize the omnipresence of the Divine will you be able to experience the Divine.
Sunday, September 7, 2025
People waste their time as they consider the body as permanent and ignore the indweller. Time is the most precious gift of God, but people do not realize the value of time. They waste three-fourths of their time in vain pursuits. How can such people redeem their lives? To sanctify the body, one must make proper use of time.
Friday, September 5, 2025
Man is endowed with two special gifts: viveka (discrimination) and vijnana (the faculty of analysis and synthesis). Use these gifts for discovering the Truth of yourself, which is the Truth of everyone else, of everything else.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
You can chant ‘Sai Rama’ or ‘Sai Krishna’, with love for Swami. You may pursue any type of education and acquire high academic degrees, yet you should not give up chanting the divine name. You should not forget the Divine name.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Watch your thoughts and see that they do not go astray. Each time a thought arises in your mind, analyze it. “Is it good or bad?” If you feel it is bad, do not allow it to persist. Just let it pass. If it is a good thought, put it into practice so that you and others also will benefit.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Just as the body is an organic whole and any ailment affecting any part of the body is felt as a pain by the whole organism, people should feel that anyone's suffering is their own. Any relief done to the other is a help done to oneself.
Monday, September 1, 2025
You can see that you breathe in and breathe out. You cannot live without breathing. When you take the breath in, you experience the sound “So”, and when you breathe out, you experience the sound “hum”. In this way, one’s breathing signifies “Sohum (That I am, or God I am).”
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Love is everywhere and God is everywhere. Hence, love all. The more you love others, the more your reputation will go up in society. If you commit a mistake or indulge in an evil deed, others will try to imitate you. Hence, be good, do good and see good. This is the way to God.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Embodiments of divine love! Realize that you are not separate from God, who is the very embodiment of love. God can be attained only through love and not by any other means.
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Inhalation and exhalation are two related processes. Similar are happiness and sorrow, and merit and sin. God is beyond all these. One who is born will also die. But God has neither birth nor death.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Bodies are different but the Self (Atma) is only one. This is why the sages declared, the absolute is One, but the wise call it by different names (Ekam sath, viprah bahudha vadanthi).
Thursday, August 28, 2025
You are all manifestations of the divine. Consider yourselves divine. There is nothing wrong in that. In terms of the body, you are a human being, but spiritually, you are divine. Lead your life with the awareness I am divine (Aham Brahmasmi ).
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Forbearance and forgiveness are the qualities which should be fostered by all individuals. You must be able to forgive even your enemies. This day (Ganesh Chaturthi Festival day) is consecrated to Ganapathi teaches you forgiveness and love, so that you may realize divinity and enjoy bliss.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
People should realize that God responds only to deep and genuine devotion. Verbal supplications will not suffice. The devotee must acquire the yearning that will melt the heart of God.
Monday, August 25, 2025
When devotees complain why they are being punished by the Lord in various ways, they do not realize that it is not God who is punishing them. Their own fears and fancies are the cause of their troubles. He alone is a true devotee who recognizes that his sufferings are the consequence of his own bad thoughts and actions.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
God has no dislike for anyone. He envies no one. He has no ill will toward anyone. Nor does He have favorites. The grace one gets is the result of one's own feelings. The divine is beyond feelings and attributes.
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Although the divine dwells in every person, this fact remains latent like oil in the sesame (thil) seed. To manifest the divine within you, you have to go through certain trials and ordeals. Love of the divine should grow from such experiences of adversity.
Friday, August 22, 2025
If one realizes that the body has been given for the pursuit of righteousness (dharma) and right actions, he will be able to realize the divine.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
The only love that will not allow pride and envy to interfere with its purity is love toward God.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
There should be no artificiality in your attachment to the Lord, no affectation, no pride, no egoism left to soil the freshness of the flower of devotion you offer to the Divine.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
No one should feel that it is beyond his capacity to surrender himself completely to the Lord. If there is firm determination, it can be accomplished. It is only through earnest endeavor that divinity can be attained.
Monday, August 18, 2025
You have to renounce indiscriminate desires. Then only will your heart become pure like a piece of white cloth. God desires only such a pure and sacred heart. God does not desire anything from you. He has no desires at all!
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Experience the love principle. Thereby you will rid the world of hatred. Once hatred goes away, the world will be free from violence and strife.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Give up the idea that you are the doer and the beneficiary. You can do this by dedicating both the deed and its fruit to the Lord. Then, no sin can affect you, for you are not the doer and the deed must be holy. Like oil on the tongue, collyrium on the eye, the lotus leaf on water, the deed is with you but not by you. Whatever you do or hear or see, remain unaffected, devoid of deeds, innocent from listening or seeing.