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Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 27

Energy is a divine gift. By curtailing unnecessary talk and keeping silent, you can conserve energy… p 85

 

Good company means the company of good thoughts, good feelings. So company does not refer to individuals… p 130

 

When you love God, you will have love towards all because the Divine is in everyone. Therefore bear in mind: Love all, Serve all. The best way to serve God is to love all and serve all... p 170

 

The love you have for other beings is only temporary. God is the only one that is eternal. All other love results in bondage, while love of God leads to liberation… p 197

 

Those who aspire to become true devotees of God have to give up meat, liquor and smoking… p 249

 

It is not family life that binds you. It is you who are holding on to worldly life and suffering the consequences… p 253 

 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 28

The one who is immersed in the waters of Divine Love will be unable to speak to anyone. When he is only up to neck-deep in the water he may be able to say a few words.. Those who speaks about God in the world do so only from superficial experience, but those who are wholly saturated with God’s love will find no words to describe their bliss… The ancient sages identified this Love with the Aathma (Supreme Self). The Self and Love are not different from each other. The Self is love and love is Self… Love is present not only in human beings, but also in all creatures, birds or beasts. Nor is that all. It is in fact all-pervasive. Love pervades everything in creation… p 3

 

Nature is not different from Supreme Self. Nature is the effect and God is the cause. Nature is the expression of this relationship between Cause and Effect… p 85

 

Liberation is the elimination of attachment… p 110

 

The more you love, the more blissful you become… p 118

 

You must always internally be in the company of God who is the embodiment of Bliss… p 180

 

Attachment to others is natural. But there should be a limit to it. When this limit is exceeded it becomes a disease… p 184

 

There is no need to worry about the enmity of others towards you… p 218

 

Dedicate all actions to God. That is the way to experience oneness with God. God is in you. You are in God. This oneness is the basic truth… p 235

 

True happiness consists in union with God… p 361

 

Compassion, kindness and love are separate words which mean the same thing. Love has many synonyms… p 371  

 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 29

The one Divine is present in all beings as consciousness like the current that illumines a variety of bulbs. To be conscious of this oneness is the highest manifestation of love… p 55

 

Hapiness is union with God. How much bliss can you experience if you see God in yourself and in everybody!… A true lover of God will experience no sorrow… p 82

 

When I love you, I love Myself; when you love yourselves, you love Me! I have separated Myself from Myself so that I may love Myself. My beloved ones, You are my own Self… p 159

 

True love should express itself in the awareness of the presence of the Divine in one and all. Names and forms may differ but the indwelling Spirit is the same in all… p 182

 

By constant contemplation on God the mind should be turned away from mundane desires. To the extent worldly desires are reduced, to the same extent bliss will be experienced… p 187

 

Till the child in the womb is four months and nine days old, the foetus is just a round mass of jelly. Then a force of vibration enters the embryo. That is the Brhaman principle, the Life Principle. This process is a manifestation of Brahman… p 232

 

Instead of being a lover, whose love is confined to a few, become love itself so that you can love all… p 235

 

When you develop the feeling of spiritual oneness of all beings, you become one with the Divine… p 299

 

As are your actions, so are the reactions… p 321

 

As love of God grows, indifference to worldly things develops naturally… p 341

 

You have to receive God’s love. And you have to offer your love. But both are one and the same love. God’s love is reflected in your bodies… p 384

 

“Surrender” means attaining the state in which the devotee feels he is one with God. This feeling arises out of the conviction that the same divinity is present in all… p 395

 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 30

For the person who has the conviction that the Divine is present in everything, there is no good or bad. He sees the Divine equally in all things. Good and evil exist for the one who looks at these things in terms of these differences… p 49

 

When you see the world with the eye of divine bliss, you will find bliss everywhere. If there is hatred in your vision, you will see hatred everywhere. Look at the world with the vision of peace, love and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful. When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos. See the Divine in everyone…p 75

 

The life span of man is melting away every moment like a block of ice. Youth is transient. The only permanent and changeless entity is the Divine… p 82

 

A man who is unable to put an end to his desires, puts an end to himself… p 91

 

Buddha felt that man was bound by various attachments in worldly life. Friends and relations were the cause of this bondage. Various human relationships were the cause of sorrow in the world. So he declared: All is sorrow, everything is momentary, everything is perishable… p 115

 

Love is in everyone, but, because it is turned to selfish ends, it becomes attachment. You should aspire to experience divine Love… p 131

 

God is omnipotent. Nature is reflection of that omnipotence. All the powers present in the Nature are present in every human being. Hence it should be recognised that God, Nature and the individual are all equally divine… p 158

 

 

There is no greater form of meditation than constant remembrance of God at all places and on all occasions… p 165

 

Real renunciation means giving up all ideas of attachment to anything. Love can emerge only when there is such total detachment. Consider everything as a manifestation of God… p 199

 

There is no need to go in search of God who is omnipresent. If devotees develop a loving vision, they can have the vision of the Divine within themselves… p 209

 

When you are yourself Divine, where is the need for a quest? p 267

 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 31

As long as man identifies himself with the body and his physical attributes, he will be in quest of Sath-Chith-Ananda. When a man has discovered the true nature of the "I", he will not go after any other thing. He will realise that he is the embodiment of Sath-Chith-Ananda…Sath is God, Chith is the individual self. The unity of Sath and Chith is Ananda (Bliss)… p 39

 

Whatever little job we may undertake, we should do it with perfection. God is perfection. We are part of the Divine. We should also stick to this principle of perfection in its totality…p 186

 

Worldly love goes on diminishing in its magnitude as time passes. Divine Love never diminishes but is constant and changeless under all circumstances and after any number of years, even after several aeons and births…p 188

 

Buddha realised that self-realisation cannot be attained through penance or prayers or austerities. At the outset, Buddha emphasised the importance of developing good vision. Good vision leads to good thoughts, good speech, and good actions. Next, he laid stress on associations with good people. The company of the good leads to good deeds… p 211

 

It is a mark of ignorance to expect that some other person will give you happiness… p 214

 

The person who considers God as his all, becomes one with God (himself). Hence, direct your minds toward God… p 230

 

Many people offer different things to God, but a true devotee offers himself to God… Once the body is offered to God, there in no attachment. Once attachment is gone, that is liberation. P 244

 

Your bad actions can never harm God. Your good actions will never make Him happy either. Be it good or bad, you will have to reap the fruits of your actions. God has nothing to do with your good or bad. He is just a witness. He is present in everybody as conscience… p 265

 

Do you think a person loves an object for the sake of the object? No, he loves it for his own sake. Similarly, a person loves another for his own happiness… p 273

 

The one who talks excessively cannot work. The one who works will not talk. By talking less your memory power will increase. Not merely this, your Atmic power will also improve… p 280

 

All that you see is Divine, but you mistake it for Nature. The one with Atmic vision will see the entire Nature as Divine… p 295

 

The mind has no death, no fixed life span and always remains youthful. One may be born again and again, but the same mind follows. Once you understand the nature of mind, you will be able to understand your true Self… p 332

 

Do not hurt even an insect, because there is God in every creature… p 362

 

From the Atmic point of view, you should realise that you are not different from God. You have to make every effort to realise this unity. Once you understand this principle of unity, wherever you are, you are one with God… p 372

 

Know thyself and you will know everything… p 403

 

This body is bound to perish one day or the other. The Indweller has neither birth nor death and no attachment whatsoever. Truly speaking, the indweller is God Himself… p 410

 

Duty is God; Work is worship… p 425

 

"As you think, so you become." If you think of God incessantly, you will assume His form… p 480

 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 32, part 1

Understand the truth that love is the Atma and the Atma is love… p 47

 

You do not need to visit various pilgrimage centres. Your heart is the real pilgrimage centre… p 111

 

God neither punishes you nor protects you. You are punished by your own sins and protected by your own good deeds…God is  the eternal witness. He is like the light, not affected by what you do, be it good or bad… p 125

 

Today some people are prepared to give up God for the sake of worldly relations. But, how long will the relations last. Bliss cannot be attained as long as one has body attachment… p 138

 

Man wastes time by spending it in mundane activities. What is the reason for this? The main reason is man's ego and attachment… p 162

 

Jealousy has three sons. They are desire, anger and hatred. P 162

 

Bliss can be attained only through control of senses, not through penance, Japa or meditation… There is no easier path to peaces and bliss other than controlling one's own senses… Once the vision is controlled, other senses can also be easily controlled. So, develop sacred vision… p 209

 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 32,  part 2

God and devotee are not separate from each other. The one who worships and the one who is worshipped are one and the same. The devotee worshipping God actually means worshipping himself. The same atma is present in everyone… p 33

 

Worldly love is like passing clouds… p 46

 

One should not develop unnecessary contacts. Your interaction with others should be limited to basic courtesies… p 60

 

Offer yourself to God. That is the goal of your life… p 72

 

Spirituality is a way of life… p 135

 

You need not make any special efforts to acquire the divine powers. They are immanent in you. They will manifest only when you contemplate on God, forgetting yourself… p 137

 

Control of desires leads to sense-control, which in turn leads to Divinity… p 158

 

When everything that is seen, heard, experienced and enjoyed is Divine, how foolish it is to search for God elsewhere! You are seeing God in the form of the world every moment… In that case you may ask whether difficulties, worries and misfortunes are also Divine? Yes indeed! They too are forms of the Divine… p 187

 

 

 

 

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