Sathya Sai Baba
2..
Livres
Summer
showers in Brindavan, 1972…
The
one who realises his true self is God... p 61
What is that
bondage? The bondage is in our own family, in our own home, in which we are tide
up and entangle. Your own affection and your people is the bondage... p 102
One who is able to
control and overcome one's anger, ego and attachments becomes a great yogi... p 208
Summer
showers in Brindavan, 1973…
When
we are able to realise and understand the significance of the statement that God
in you and in me is the same, that oneness is nothing but the Atma Tatwa and
that the Atma is identical with Brahman, the ignorance in us will be removed.
This is the one truth and this truth is independent of the different forms and
different names which we come across in this world...There is a single reality
in all that we see and that is Brahman... p 57
That which is
eternal truth, that which is unchanging, that which is pure knowledge and that
which cannot be described by using words is Brahman. Brahman is the only truth
and that is shining in the shape of the Atman in all different forms of living
beings. It is only when we recongnise this truth, that we will be able to attain
the stage of Vishnu... p 66
Your beauty, your
age, your strength, your wealth and your position should not make you feel very
proud because with your advancing age all these will vanish... p 186
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1974…
Once
we understand and appreciate what is true and what is permanent, then these
transient things will not give us any trouble whatsoever... p 228
Summer
Roses on the Blue Mountains, 1976…
But
neither sorrow nor pleasure can ever be permanent. Sorrow cannot remain all the
time and happiness cannot remain for all the time... p 114
The kind of food
that we take determines the kind of behaviour that we develop... p 117
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1977…
The
kind of work which a wise man does always carries a feeling which makes him
identical with the divine aspect. He thinks that God is really doing the work,
and that he is only an instrument... p 93
The fire can never
be extinguished by adding fuel. In the same manner by your trying to satisfy
your desires, the desires will go on increasing. They will never decrease by
satisfaction and appeasement... p 103
This atma is
present in everyone, in all living beings and in all things... p 133
Atma which is the
embodiment of God is beauty and happiness. Beauty is not present in creation,
beauty is present in us, in the nature of atma...When there is prema, whatever
we may look at, it will be beautiful and good... p 141
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1978…
This
implies that it is only when we can give up the bodily relationships that we can
earn the grace of the Lord... p 107
What resides in the
body in the form of atma is God. The life force that is present in you is
present in all living things. The upanishads have established the truth that
this living force is the same as God… p 198
I will give you the
quintessence of all vedanta in one sentence. "The atma that is present in
all living beings is one and the only one and that is no other than you"…
p 229
Summer
showers in Brindavan, 1979…
In
reality, it is only God who decides what action is to be performed by whom, at
what time, at what place, under what circumstances, and with what degree of
success... p 43
The first step in
controlling the mind consists in impressing upon it the fact that the world is
transient and that, consequently, the pleasure derived therein are momentary.
Sensory pleasures give no contentment. The more the sensory desires are
satisfied, the more they grow in number and intensity, just as the fire
increases in fury as we feed it with more and more of faggots... p 116
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1990…
What
actually is your bondage? It is the delusion of your identification with the
body. You must give up the false idea that you are the body and imbibe the truth
that you are the Atma. Then alone can you achieve liberation. Detachment from
the body consciousness will free you from the grief of bondage and attachment to
God will give you the bliss of liberation and merger with God. How to get rid of
body consciousness?
By asserting with
faith that "I am not the body. The body, the senses, the mind and the
intellect are all my instruments". You must give up your body
consciousness... p 149
When you get rid of
attachment and hatred you can discover your own real nature. How strange and
foolish it is that despite yourself being the very embodiment of bliss, you are
searching for bliss elsewhere! Although everything is within you, you are
unfortunately running after petty desires and silly sensual pleasures in the
phenomenal world. What is the reason for this mad race? Ignorance of the truth
that you are yourself the source of all bliss... p 150
So long as there is
ego in you, you will find only multiplicity. Once you realize that I and you are
one, you will find unity everywhere which is true and eternal… p ?
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1991...
Our
body has 720 million nadis. The life-force called vyana pervades
every nadi uniformly. The Divine force of vyana ensures health,
joy and enthusiasm. Vyana manifests as a thousand-petalled lotus (shasraara
padma) in the crown of the head. When the kundalini energy journeys
from the moolaadhaara chakra to the shasraara padma, the petals
of this lotus blossoms. Then the kundalini glows with infinite
effulgence in the sahasraara… p 106
Never
feel that you help someone else. You help only yourself… p 50
When
we cultivate friendships and attachments indiscriminately, our Divinity is
drained day by day… p 106
Bliss
can dawn with the conquest of attachment, fear and anger, but only to a
certain extent. Why? Renouncing attachment, fear and anger is not sufficient.
Love for God must be cultivated as well. But even Love for God is not enough!
You must become close to God’s love for you. Finally, even proximity to
God’s Love is inadequate. You must place total reliance on the
all-encompassing Transcendental Principle (paratatva). Then it is possible for
man to become Divine… p 131
From
attachment comes fear. How? “Will I get what I want or not? Even if I obtain
it, would I be able to retain it forever? Would I be able to safeguard it?”
This is fear. Fear eventually turns into its contorted form, anger. Hence,
attachment, fear and anger follow in sequence. Without attachment, the other
two cannot exist… p 139
Whatever man loves, he
loves not for the sake of the
objects, but for his own sake. When he loves a person, that is for his selfish
sake as well… p 150
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1993…
There
is no room for sorrow if we firmly believe that all relationships are temporary
and transient… p 15
There are some men
who appear to be ever peaceful and there are also men who appear to be ever
sorrowful. There are also men who, appear to be experiencing joy as well as
sorrow and there are also men, lost in Divine intoxication, totally blissful.
What is the cause for these different states of man? Mind is the cause for all
this…..Divine man sees Divinity everywhere. To such a man, all forms and
beings are the reflections of Divinity and he leads a life of joy born of Divine
intoxication… p 51
You are what your
company is… p 61
What is love?
Oneness of feeling is love. If you foster the feeling that the same Atma resides
in all, you will be able to love all… p 65
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1995
Om
Namo Bhagavate Vaasudevaaya Om namo Narayana p 66
More
human attachment means less divine attachment… The root causes of all sorrow
are (1) attraction to worldly objects and (2) attachment arising from human
relationships… There is no lasting bond between people… p 79
If
you remember the Lord’s name throughout your life, it will be easy to recall
it in your last moments… p 82
There
is no greater enemy than anger… p 92
The
good in us
can turn bad and the bad can become good. We should experience the unity of
both. That which makes us understand this unity is our Divinity… p 114
Simply
think: “Everything belongs to God. Nothing is mine”. This is the way to
transcend attachment… p 122
Summer
Showers in Brindavan, 1996
Devotion
is the constant contemplation of the Lord at all times, places and
circumstances… 89
True
renunciation is the destruction of the feeling of duality… p 105
Friendship must be within
limits. Friendship beyond limits must be with God alone for He will not let go
at any time… p 127
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