Sathya Sai Baba 4.. Livres
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.1…
Install the Lord in your heart and offer Him the fruits of your actions and the flowers of your inner thoughts and feelings. That is the worship I like most the devotion I appreciate most... p 2
Silence is the only language of the realized... p 59
The "I" in you is the Supreme Being Himself. "I" is the tiny wavelet that plays with the wind for a moment, over the deep waters of the sea... p 213
In the surge of emotions and thoughts that will invade you at the last moment, the Name of God will be submerged unless you learn from now on to bring that Name on the top of the consciousness, whenever you want it... p 214
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 2…
On waking, pray every morning of your life: "Oh Lord, I am born now from the womb of sleep. I am determined to carry out all tasks this day as offerings to Thee, with Thee ever present before my mind's eye. Make my words, thoughts and deeds sacred and pure; let me not inflict pain on any one; let no one inflict pain on me; direct me, guide me, this day."
And when you enter the portals of sleeps at night, pray: "Oh Lord! The tasks of this day, whose burden I placed on you this morning, are over. It was You who made me walk and talk and think and act; I therefore place at Thy Feet all my words, thoughts and deeds. My task is done. Receive me, I am coming back to you"… p 64
When suffering comes in waves, one behind the other, be glad that the shore is near… p 177
Without surrender, there can be no liberation… p 224
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 3…
Every step taken towards the Lord makes you shed bit by bit all attachment to the world… p 109
You must have the goal of merging in the Absolute always in view; do not give it up or forget it… p 117
Prema or Divine Love is all embracing; it cannot be confined to one item and denied to another. It is a current that flows over all… p 128
Man should leave the world full of gratitude for the chance given to him to see God in everything that he saw, heard, touched, smelt and tasted. He must remember the Lord, with his last breath… So cultivate he habit of remembering the Lord with every breath; then only can you remember Him with the last breath…. P 173
The best and the simplest karma is the repetition of the Name of the Lord; be ever engaged in it. It will keep out evil tendencies and wicked thoughts. It will help you radiate love all round you… p 213
Think of His immanence in every hill and dale, every man and beast, every tree, bird and insect.You will be really thrilled by the joy of that vision… p 220
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 4…
The Lord is in you, behind you, beside you, before you. He is the eye of your eye; the I of your I. Yearn for the union with Him, through the unwavering awareness of His being the real You… p 50
You are as distant from the Lord as you think you are, as near Him as your feel you are…p 57
See Nature as Supreme Soul. Wherever your eye turns, whatever your ears hear, your fingers touch, your tongue tastes, and your nose smells, whatever has form, sound, touch, taste and smell, take that also to be God-filled. See the devine in each, welcome and accept only that… p 106
You can discover your own truth only when you are alone with yourself and there is silence all around you… p 123
The greatest happiness is inner peace. How do you get it? By knowing that you are the Athma, which has no birth or death, no joy or grief, no up and no down… p 214
If you become aware of the God in you and the God in all else, there is nothing to equal the peace and joy that you get… p 219
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 5…
You may be physically far, but mentally by My side… p 68
Have the Name on the tongue and the Form in the eye and the demon called unending desires will fly from your mind, leaving joy and content therein. This will promote in you love for all beings. You will strive only to do good to others... p 74
When you rise in the morning, rise with the Name on your tongue, slide into sleep with the Name on your tongue… p 85
See the hand of God in everything that happens; then, you will not exult or grieve. Then your life will be one continuous meditation… p 87
When Vishnu incarnated as Raama… p 202
You should not plunge into action spurred by momentary impulse; ponder deeply over the pros and cons; weigh the expected benefits against the likely harm; then act so that you escape pain and you do not inflict pain… p 225
You are only imagining that you are seeing with your eyes, but you are, in fact, seeing with God's eyes… p 282
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 6…
Man does not know that all joys spring only from the spring that is inside him; he only invests the outer things with his own joy drawn from inside himself; he envelopes the outer things with his own joy and then, experiences it as though from that other thing ---that is all!… p 29
Cultivate faith and surrender; then Grace will flow through you into every act of yours; for they are no longer your acts, they are His and you have no concern about the consequences thereof. All acts and words and thoughts will thereafter be pure, saturated with love, conductive to peace… p 45
That "I" is God believe it. For that "I" sees with the eye, tastes with the tongue, walks with the feet, argues with the intelligence; but, all the while, it is conscious that it is separate from all these… p 68
Dedicate the act, the will, the wish, all to God… p 192
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 7…
Once man has discovered who he is, there is no need to know who is God, for, both are the same… p 4
There are many doors to His Mansion. The main entrance is, however, the overcoming of attachment… p 65
The best method of carrying out the sage's direction is to believe that this body is the residence of God; that the food you take is the offering you make to Him; your act of bathing is the ceremonial bathing of Him who is in you; the ground you walk on is his domain; the joy you gain is his gift; the grief you experience is His lesson. Remember Him ever, in sun and rain, day and night, asleep and awake… p 111
Yearn for God, and all lesser yearnings will disappear. Loss or gain, honour or dishonour, health or ill-health, joy or grief…keep the mind steadily pointed towards God; that is the goal; that is the prize for the race of life. Overcome all obstacles by means of that faith and have the goal alone in view. Visualise God, seek God and merge in God… that is the duty of man… p 119
Man starts as a student of the Brahmic, he enters the householder stage, the stage of apprenticeship in the joys and pleasures of the world; then he promotes himself into the recluse in the forest stage, of detachment and discrimination that leads him on to the ascetic stage, of intense spiritual exercise. This ends in the consummation of the merging in the Absolute. He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman; the river that enters the sea becomes the sea… p 205
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 8…
Every day when you awaken recite the Name, 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 with that Name, for being with you, by you, beside you, before you, behind you, all day long… p 119
Let all desires for sense-objects die, or, concentrate all desires on God. Surrender all desires to Him. Surrender all instincts, impulses, attachments to Him. "When you surrender everything to Me, your welfare and happiness become My responsibility"… p 161
Choose good companies and do not develop too strong an attachment to any one. Be friendly with all, but, do not allow that friendship to grow in excess… p 165
It is only in the depth of silence that the voice of God can be heard. Speak as low as possible; as little as possible, as sweet as possible… p 185
The desire to raise the standard of living is a thirst that can never be quenched. It leads to endless pursuit of sensory pleasures, multiplication of wants, and deeper and deeper involvement in worry… p 213
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 9…
Each body that you see before you is a mirror in which if only you open your eyes you can see the image of God. The God in you is in each of them too. Do not imagine the others to be distinct, they are only you, in so many mirrors… p 71
Every passing minute is a precious gift from God, which you have to use for the best and most lasting benefit… p 103
Buddha is a historical figure, who live about 2500 years ago… p 116
When a person is yearning for the precious goal of self-realisation all the forces of Nature and all Creation will help him and render all assistance. Everything will be set right to lead you on, to the goal… p 134
The task for which you have earned this human frame is to grow in love, expand that love, practise love, strengthen love and finally become Love and merge in the Illimitable Love, which is God. All your life, you must be Love, with Love, for Love… p 158
Man and woman, though master and wife, have different spiritual destinies; each has to go at his of her own pace. They may be inter-related and interdependent in secular matters, but, in spiritual matters, each has to carve out his or her own career… p 185
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 10…
God is not involved in either rewards or punishments. He only reflects, resounds, and react! He is the Eternal Unaffected Witness! You decide your own fade... p 43
You love the God in all beings and the God in all beings responds with love… p 87
Do all acts as offerings to God; do not classify some as "my work" and some as "His work". All work is His; He inspires, He helps, He executes, He enjoys, He pleased, He reaps, He sowed. He alone exists, for, all this manifoldness is but He, seen through the mirror of Nature!… p 94
When you get, in spite of best efforts, ugly, harmful ideas of hatred or anger or animalism, you must infer that they are due to faults in food habits, or in the company you keep, either with friends or books of films or other forms of entertainment… p 141
When you know your self as yourself, you are liberated: Liberation is just the awareness of your reality and the rejection of all contrary conception… p 156
The disease of over-attachment of worldly objects can be cured only by the drug of attachment of God, cultivated through japa and dhyaana… p 227
One can stick to the path of Dharma if one is conscious of the Divine in every thing that he sees or hears, touches or tastes. That will fill every moment of his life with the thrill of self-realisation… p 244
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 11…
Fill the heart with Love, and distribute that Love to all. Love grows with every gift of Love; the heart that pours out love is ever full. God is there as Love and you are only drawing on Him, when you are sharing love with others…p 45
Look upon the wife and the children as a sacred trust, and serve in that spirit. Prepare yourselves for a celibate and spiritual discipline from the age of fifty; the five senses have to be mastered , by the time five decades of your life are over. The conclusion of six decades means that you have conquered the six foes of man: lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate. When you are seventy, you must be far, far above mundane desires and ideals, and as near the point of mergence as possible, through spiritual exercise. p 59
My Name is Truth, I am the Truth, and since I am in every one of you, you too are everlasting Truth. Do not doubt this and descend into distress. Strive to be endowed with the unwavering eye, the unhesitating mind. p 92
All hands are His, all feet, all eyes and all faces and mouths are His; He works through all hands, He walks through all feet, He sees through each eye. He eats and speaks through every mouth. Everything is He. Every steps is His, every look, every speech, every act is His. p 128
Have no ego, discard desire, you are liberated. p 177
When you speak with the tongue or see with the eye, or plan with the brain, who is it that speaks, sees, judges and decides? It is the One intelligence, the One that, like a current, works in and through all men and materials, God… But, all the activity originates from a common source, God, who is resident as President in the heart… God is all, He is all forms, His is all names. There is no place where He is not; no moment when He is not… Let no second pass without awareness of God; let no event lapse without reminding you that He is the artificer. p 189
Believe that you are Divine; conduct yourselves in accordance with that sovereign status; then, you will be blessed with the experience, the vision, the realisation, the awareness, the bliss. And, as a result, you are merged in that everlasting Anandha. p 306
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 12…
He gave you the time, the space, the cause, the material, the idea, the skill, the chance, the fortune, and you did but little of your own. So, why should you feel as if you are the doer?… p 37
When Divine selfless Love is installed in the heart, jealousy, hatred and untruth will find no place there. Live in Love, live with Love, move with Love, speak with Love, think with Love, and act with Love. This is the best and the most fruitful spiritual effort. Do not want Love from others, while yourself refusing Love to others. This is not a one-way traffic… p 45
Man must achieve the status of God. And, who is God? Truth is God, Love is God, Peace is God. Develop truth, cultivate love, establish yourselves in peace… you are on the road of divinity… p 138
To be aware of nothing other than God… This is true surrender… p 147
You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others… p 207
Creation posits a Creator; nothing can happen without the Will to make it happen. Before the beginning of things, there must be some Will that willed them to become. It can only be He that has become all this, whatever be the name or form that these have assumed. That Will is Love, it is Wisdom. It is Power, It is Bliss… p 210
Attachment causes pain and detachment results in joy. But, you cannot easily detach yourself from activity; the mind clings to something or other. Make it cling to God, let it do all things for God and leave the success or failure of the thing done to God, the loss and the profit, the elation or the dejection. Then, you have the secret of peace and contentment…. P 230
When the Cosmos manifested through the Will of God, who is the Universal Absolute, It arose from the Absolute only, since there was then, only ONE, just as even now there is only One, in spite of all this seeming variety. That Will which emanated from the Absolute persuaded us to see and experience Many; that is all that has happened. The One Reality is still The One, it has not undergone any change. We have super-imposed on the One, the illusion of the Many… p 278
True spirituality is the awareness of the fundamental unity of man in God… p 308
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 13…
Anger, hatred, envy, jealousy, these are the heavy luggage I asked you to avoid taking with you in the journey… p 18
God shines and manifests not only in a single body, but, in all bodies. He is the Indweller in each; so, when you insult, injure or inflict infamy on another, remember you are inviting the pain to visit your own self, for, the other is none other than your own self… p 64
Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as Service…p 117
When we have gained what we desire, greed, the accomplice of the desire, steps out and prods us to desire a few more objects. When what is desired is not gained, another accomplice, anger, steps out and prods us to hate and harm those whom we suspects stood in the way of the gain… p 154
Life is to be dedicated for the service of others and not devoted to the exclusive interests of oneself… p 195
Give the body the attention it deserves, but not more. Some people advise that you should cultivate disgust towards it; but, that is not beneficial. Disgust is not a desirable attitude towards anything in creation. Everything is God's handiwork, an example of His Glory, His Magesty … p 217
Only those who have stopped half-way in the path of Yoga will come forward as instructors and guides. When one has gone the entire length of the road, one has perforce to leave the world and its needs behind… p 129
You do not lose much if a finger is so damaged that it needs to be cut off. The body can still function and be a fit instrument. Even if you lose a limb, you can function and benefit with the help of your faculties. But if you lose your character, then everything is lost!… p 234