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GAYATHRI16. 5. 64The Gayathri manthra (sacred formula) is a universal prayer that can be used by men of all climes andcreeds, for, it calls upon the Glorious Power that pervades the Sun and the three worlds to arouse, awakenand strengthen the Intelligence, so that it may lead to intense Sadhana and Sadhana may lead to success.Every little moment or incident results in sound; only, you may not be able to hear, because the range ofyour ear is limited. The falling of an eyelid over the eye makes a sound, the dropping of dew on a petalmakes a sound. Any little agitation disturbing the calm is bound to produce sound. The sound caused bythe primal movement that resulted in the enveloping of Brahman by self-evolved illusion is thePranavasabdha or OM. The Gayathri is the elaboration of that Pranava and so, it is now held so venerablethat initiation into spiritual life is achieved by its contemplation.25. 2. 65Gayathri manthra has the subtle power of removing evil tendencies and implanting virtuous habits, and so,the Upanayanam is a unique samskaara.26. 4. 65The Gayathri manthra develops the dhee sakthi (power of discrimination) and, so its consequence will bethe giving up of evil company, and the seeking of kindred souls. If sathsang is not available, you can keepcompany with your own higher impulses and noble thoughts. Dive deep into your own divinity.27. 9. 65The Gayathri is the Vedhic Manthra whispered in the ear during the ceremony of initiation into spirituallife. The Gayathri is a prayer to the Supreme Intelligence that is immanent in the Universe to kinder theintelligence of the supplicant. It is a prayer that can well be spoken with yearning by men and women of allcreeds and climes in all centuries.13. 10. 67Repeat the Gayathri - it is a universal prayer. It has three parts, dhyaana - meditation on the Glory of Godas the Illumination immanent in the worlds - upper; middle and lower. (OM Bhur - bhuva - swah; thathsavithur varenyam); it has smarana or picturisation of the Grace (bhargo devasya dheemaki) and Praarthana,a prayer for compassion for the sake of liberation, through the awakening of Intelligence that pervades theentire Universe, not to any particular Name or Form of that Intelligence; and so, all can use it and be savedby it.11. 3. 68Sharpen the intellect, then the Unity in nature will become evident. The most revered and the most popularmanthra in the Vedhas is the Gayathri; it seeks the grace of the Source of all Light, to foster one’sintelligence and for nothing more!7. 7. 68The Gayathri Hymn of the Vedhas, recited thrice a day by millions, ask for the awakening of theintelligence so that when it brightens like the sun at its zenith, the smog of delusion is destroyed. Then thewaves of indecision and decision that confound, contradict and confuse are stilled. This is the process ofyoga or the arrest of the wandering mind, as Pathanchali defined it centuries ago.18. 7. 70The Gayathri manthra is a prayer for the progressive upsurge of intelligence so that Truth may be graspedby the seeker. Subordinate the mind to the pure intelligence which is but a reflection of the God within.Then, you have the Guru of Gurus, as guide.26. 6. 81

Gayathri is worshipped as a Five-faced Goddess - OM , being the first, Bhur bhuvasswah, the second.Thath Savirthur Varenyam, the third, Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi, the fourth and Dhiyo YonahPrachodayaath, the fifth face.Through meditation on the Gayathri; one can become aware of the inner motivating principle of the fiveelements, the five vital airs in the human body and the five sheaths which encase the Atma. Just as thereare three basic energies that govern man - the physical, the metaphysical and the psychical, Gayathri hasthree facets: Gayathri, Savithri, the psychical. These three karanas or instruments have to be cleansed andsublimated so that man can realise the goal of life. Through the recital of Gayathri manthra and meditationthereon, this great task can be achieved.6. 5. 95In the Gayathri Manthra, the unity of body, mind and soul is depicted in the first line as ‘Bhur - Bhuwah -Suvah’. The next line ‘Bharjo Devasya Dheemahi’ means ‘Throw away the darkness’. Deeyo nahPrachodayaath’ mean ‘ let the effulgence of the Divine dispel the darkness of ignorance’. Gayatri ispervading everywhere. It consists of three deities. Gayathri, Savithri and Saraswathi. Of these, the firstone is master of the senses, The second is the teacher of truth and the Third is the master of speech (Vaak).Hence it is a Trinity of senses, the mind and speech. Gayathri is hailed as ‘Chandrasaam Maathah’, theMother of all Vedas. Gayathri has five faces and is the embodiment of all deities. Description of theglory(stothra) of Dhyana (Meditation) and prayer (praarthana) are all contained in the Gayathri Manthra.When does a prayer become meaningful> It is only when you stabilise your mind and turn it towards God.The basis of this is to meditate, pray and experience. It is essential to achieve harmony in thought, wordand deed. Gayathri is teaching this great lesson.Upanayanam is a Samkara that makes a boy fit for pursuing the highest wisdom. There is no differencebetween one child and another at the time of birth. All are born out of the mother’s womb only. This isthe first stage of life(Sudra). The second stage is getting the upadesa of Gayathri at the time ofUpanayanam, when the boy becomes a Darja or twice born. He is then purified. The third stage is Vipra,when one has mastered the study of the Vedas. The fourth stage is Brahman, when he actually reaches theBrahman through the knowledge of the self. One becomes a Brahman not by birth but only when onerealises the Supreme Brahman. One becomes a Brahmana by action and not by birth.Gayathri will protect your body, make your intellect shine and improve your power of speech. That is whyGayathri is considered to be very important for the second stage of your life, which you are entering today.How should you live ? You should live in accordance with the Upanishadic prayer 'SahenaavavathuSahanou Bhunakthu Saheveenyam Karavaardai ? (Let us grow together, live together and develop lovetogether. ') From such living, you get divinity. Unity leads to purity and purity to divinity. Where thereis no unity, you get ennui and hatred.Chant the Gayathri morning, noon and evening.In the Gayathri Mantra the first line is : 'OM Bhurbhuvaasuvah. ' This mantra is assumed to refer to threeworlds, the earth, the middle worldThere are three states of consciousness in man - the waking state, the dream state and the deep sleep state.All the three states are in every individual. The three governing powers in these states are Viswa, Thejasaand Prajna respectively. The Gayathri manthra OM Bhur Bhuvas-Swah is related to these three. We thinkthat Bhuloka is the world that we live in, Bhuvasloka is swarga and Swarloka is beyond that. This is notcorrect. All the three worlds are in our heart only. The outside world we see is the material world formedof inert matter. The world you see in ‘Bhu’ and the power that causes the movement is ‘Bhuvah’ or lifeForce, which can be termed as ‘vibration’. It is the force of vibration that activates all the limbs of thebody. Because of the ‘Prajnana’ which is inside, the Life Force is able to cause the vibration and activatethe limbs. The source of ‘Prajna’ is Swaha or Radiation. When you analyse in this manner, it will be seenthat ‘Bhur - Bhuvas - Swah’ represent the forces of Radiation, Vibration and materialisation.

In the Gayathri Manthra, the unity of body, mind and soul is depicted in the first line as ‘Bhur - Bhuvah -Swaha’. The next line ‘Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi’ means ‘Throw away the darkness’. ‘Dheeyo nahPrachodayaath’ means ‘ let the effulgence of the Divine dispel the darkness of ignorance.Gayathri is pervading everywhere. It consists of three deities, Gayathri, Savithri and Saraswathi. Of these,the first one is master of the senses. The second is the teacher of truth and the third is the master of speech(vaak). Hence it is a Trinity of the senses, the mind and speech.Gayathri has five faces and is the embodiment of all deities. Description of the glory (sthothra) of Dhyana(meditation) and prayer (praarthana) are all contained in the Gayathri manthra.When does a prayer become meaningful? It is only when you stabilise your mind and turn it towards God.The basis for this is to meditate, pray and experience. It is essential to achieve harmony in thought, wordand deed. Gayathri is teaching this great lesson.GENERAL (Meaning)11. 7. 57Running a lottery to collect fund for building:A lottery attracts money from persons who are moved by greed; it holds out the attraction of quick rich andtempts men from a wrong angle. It will be tainted money to all lottery tickets and distributes prizes and usethe balance. Though it is for a good purpose, the means must be pure. Every one who gives even a paisamust give it out of real devotion and knowing that the paisa will be used for the building which he wants toget built. Do not receive money given half-heartedly or with some other motive than devotion25. 3. 58The bell in the temple is intended to convey the OM as the symbol of the Omnipresent God. When the bellsounds OM, the Godhead within you will awaken and you will be aware of His Presence. That is themeaning of the bell which is rung in front of the inner shrine in the temple.7. 2. 59Examine the Linga: the three primodal qualities are represented by the three-tiered platform (Peetha); theLingam above symbolises the goal of life. The Lingam means ‘a symbol’, the symbol of creation, the resultof the activity of the three gunas and of the Brahman (Supreme Reality) which permeates and gives itmeaning and value. When you worship the Lingam, you should do so with faith in this symbolicsignificance.The three eyes of Shiva are the eyes which reveal the Past, Present and the Future. Shiva alone has allthree. The elephant skin which forms His cloak is just a symbol for the elemental bestial primitive traitswhich His Grace destroys; He makes them powerless and harmless; in fact, he tears them to pieces. skinthem so to say, and makes them ineffective. His four faces symbolises Peace, Fierceness, Auspiciousness,Determination (Shaantham, Roudhram, Mangalam and Uthsaalam)25. 4. 61Be like bees hovering on the flower of the Glory of the Lord, sucking the sweet nectar of Grace, silently andjoyfully.30. 4. 61The language of the heart is expressed through sympathy, kindness, service, love, brotherliness. That is thelanguage that really matters; that language can be understood by everyone.17. 10. 61

When you fold both your hands and bring them together, feel that you are offering at the Feet all the actionsof the five Karmendhriyas (organs of action) and the five Jnaanendhriyas (organs of perception) asindicated by the ten fingers. Again, the purpose of Namaskaaram is to touch the Feet (sparshan) of theLord. The negative pole, Maayaashakthi (power of illusion), and the positive pole Mahaashakthi (Supremedivine power) have to meet in order to produce a spiritual current that will flow through you.7. 3. 62Be like the tongue in the midst of the teeth, carefully, confidently, courageously going about its task,without getting bitten.9. 3. 62The Geetha is for serving all, and granting all Liberation, Geetha, in Thelugu means ‘ a line’ it draws a lineacross and cancels the series of births and deaths, it teaches you to stand erect, unafraid, along the straightpath of dharma, along the line laid down7. 10. 62Brahma’s lotus is not stalk that grows in mud and rises above the waters to catch the rays of the sun andblossom, but the many petalled Lotus of the Heart, each petal being the direction in which a particulartendency attracts the individual.The bull on which Shiva is said to ride is not the animal called by that name, but the symbol of Dharma orRighteousness which has the four legs, Sathya, dharma, shaanthi and prema.Gopala did not graze cattle, but protected and fed jeevis (living beings) known also as ‘Go’.24. 2. 64Hold your right palm, spread it vertically before you! You find that the thumb points towards you and iskeeping apart from the other fingers. That represents the Paramaathma which is aloof and unaffected. Theforefinger is the jeevi, the self, attached to the three gunas, the three-stranded complex of the objectiveworld. It seeks to mix with this, that and other, to show this and mark out that; it is ever busy identifyingobjects and so it gets the company of only the three qualities (gunas). But, once let it turn towards theParamaathma (Supreme Self), let it achieve Saameepya (proximity) with it! Then it will lose the contactwith the gunas, it and the thumb will form the chin-mudra - the sign of the Puurna (full), the completedConsciousness.11. 10. 64This is the meaning of the injunction that you should dip thrice in succession, when you take a bath in anyholy river. The first dip is to cleanse the sthula sareera ( the gross physical body); the second is to cleansethe suukshama sareera ( that subtle body), of the praanamaya, the manomaya and vijnaanamaya koshas (sheaths of vital energy, mind and knowledge) and third is to cleanse the kaarana sareera (the casual body) orthe vijnaanamaya kosha, with just a tinge of maaya still left.25. 11. 64Significance of the number 108:Why is it that the strings of the names of the Gods are always 108? All such mystic numbers have a deepmeaning. Man breathes at the rate of 900 per hour, 21,600 times per day, 10,800 during day time. Withevery breath, man is supposed to repeat Soham, ‘I am He’, and so, the figure 216 and its half, 108 has adeep significance. It is also 9 times 12, 9 being the number indicative of Brahman, since it is always 9,however many times you may multiply it (9 x 12 = 108, 1+8 = 9, 9x9=81,8+1= 9) and 12 is the number ofthe sun; also, the sun moves through 12 raasis or points, each raasi representing one month.13. 1. 65The heart full of Sathwaguna (quality of purity and poise) is the ocean of milk. The steady contemplationof the Divine, either as your own reality or as the ideal to be reached, is the Mandara mountain placed in itas the churning rod. Vaasuki, the serpent that was wound round the churning rod as a rope, is the group of

the senses, emitting poisonous fumes during the process of churning and nearly frightening the Asuras whoheld the lead. The rope is held by the good and the bad impulses and both struggle with the churningprocess eager for the results which each has set its heart on.30. 1. 65Kasthuri or mask on the forehead of Krishna is the symbol of the Ego of wisdom, the Inner Eye, the inwarddirected vision, like the third eye on the forehead of Shive. Kasthuri means jnaanam or supersensualknowledge or wisdom. Kowsthubha gem on the cheat indicates the aananda in the heart. Navarouthikamon this nose-tip is indicative of the success that attends one-pointed concentration on His Glory for whichthe tip of the nose is considered by adepts in yoga as a point of help. And the pearl is Hindu Mythology,produced out of the rain-drop, from the first pure, unsullied showers that is swallowed by the oyster that hasbeen waiting long for the precious gift from the heaven. It indicates the transforming effect of genuine andthe natural thirst for the pure and the true which irks the human heart.1. 3. 65Shivaraathri is the day on which Maheshwara takes up the Linga form for the benefit of spiritual seekers;what they have to seek from Mahesawara is Jnaana.29. 3. 65Try to break the coconut, as it comes from the tree; the shell is covered compactly by a coat of fibre. Youcannot break the nut by hitting with a crow-bar even; take off the fibrous armour; breaking it is very easy.When you take a coconut to be offered in the temple, you take it, after removing the fibre; then, you offer itto God, breaking it into two halves. This is the symbol for destroying the ego and surrendering to the Lord.So you have to remove the fibre for sense-objects and then, go before the Lord devoid of kaama and krodha(desire and anger); there you declare that you are ego-less by breaking the coconut into two. You will beaccepted then, not before.29. 9. 65You may wonder why some are being given special seats and places here. The rulers have to be broughthere, so that they may see and hear, and know-about things that matter, get inspired by the bhakthi that fillsthe air, so that through them it may be shared by the country at large. The laws they pass, and theadministrative system that they operate are some of the means by which the ideals of the nation can beworked in practice. They have been selected by you for this purpose, with this end in view; they have yourconfidence and they have won the approbation of thousands of people and so they have to be treated withsome consideration. Those thousands look upon them with some respect, and so, treating them with care istantamount to treating those thousands with care.There is no worse disease than Greed;No enemy worse than Anger;Nor is there any Misery worse than poverty;There is no Greater Happiness than wisdom.8. 9. 66The waving of the camphor flame at the end of the bhajan sessions is to remind you that your sensualcravings must be burnt away without leaving any trace behind, and you must offer yourself to God for beingmerged with His Glory.14. 1. 67All spiritual endeavour has as its aim the attraction of the Grace of God on ourselves. That is why whenyou go to a temple and stand before the main shrine, you strike the bell hung there; the sound will draw theattention of the Lord to the supplicant just arrived. The bell must be accompanied by a sincere prayer fromthe heart.3. 4. 67

The sufferings depicted in the Raamayana are due to two characters that make only short appearances, butrepresent the evil force lust and anger - Surpanaka and Manthara. They poison the minds of Raavana andKaikeyi respectively and set the stage for the tale of grief.11. 1. 68It is on this day centuries ago, the Geetha was taught to Arjuna by Krishna.26. 2. 68The Linga is a symbol of the universe into which all particulars merge, from which all particulars emerge.The Linga is the Siva-Swarupa (the real Form of the Reality). The Lingodhbhava (materialisation ofLinga) is an announcement of the advent of the Avatar as the Guide and the Leader.29. 3. 68The entire epic of Ramayana hinges on two women and two passions: Manthara representing Krodha(anger, resentment, vengeance) and Shurpanakha representing Kaama (lustful passion). Manthara plottedto send Raama into exile and Shurpanakha caused the abduction of Seetha and the destruction of theRaakshasas (demons) as a consequence. the two women are insignificant characters in the story, but theroles they play are key roles, for they sparked off, by means of the passions they represented, long chaptersof pain and grief. Krodha (anger) and Kaama (desire) are more destructive than atom bombs; but whenRaama is installed in the heart, they just fizzle out!13. 11. 68Goddess earth wears a sari of green, dotted with red and yellow flowers.'Go' means 'senses' and 'Go-pee' means a person who has subdued the senses, as a result of surrender to Gopala,the master of the Go (senses)Feb 69Lingam means, that in which this jayath (world of change) attains laya (mergence or dissolution), leeyatha.All Forms merge in the Formless at last. Shiva is the Principle of the destruction of all Names and Forms,of all entities and individuals. So, the Linga is the simplest sign of emergence and mergence.Every form conceived in the shaasthras and scriptures has a deep significance. Shive does not ride andanimal called bull. The bull is the symbol of stability standing on four legs, Sathya, Dharma, Shanthi andPrema (Truth, Virtue, Peace and Love)Shiva is described as having three eyes, eyes that see the Past, the Present and the Future. The elephantskin which forms His cloak is a symbol of the bestial primitive traits which His Grace destroys. His fourfaces symbolise Equanimity, Terror, Grace and elevating energy.The fast is called in Sanskrit as Upavaasa and it means something far more significant than missing a meal!It means living with or living near. With whom? Near whom? Near and with God. Upavaasa means livingin the unbroken constant presence of the Lord, by Naamamarana; that is the real fast, holding fast to Him.18. 7. 70Guru Pournami is sacred for many reasons:This day, the seeker who suffers from identification with the false objective world is imitated into the realityof the ‘unseen motivator’ within him; this day, those who have no urge to tread the spiritual path areinspired to seek the bliss which that path will confer; this day, aspirants are helped to achieve theconsciousness of the One, which is known by many Names and through many Forms, in various languagesand lands.15. 11. 73A body with no heart, a village with no temple and a tank with no water are all three without function orvalue. So you must maintain and foster the temple in your village as carefully and as constantly as youattend to your own heart and its condition.

23. 11. 73When one chooses a life-partner now-a-days, the first consideration is paid to external beauty and charm.Next, the economic position is taken as the basis. How rich he or she? How much does he or she earn?Questions like, how far they are educated, what is the social status of the families to which they belong areasked later carried off by mere external frills and foppery, people enter into wedlock, and get entangled inmisery on such slender foundation. Prime importance has to be paid to the fundamental requisites of agood character, high ideals of tolerance and forbearance, love and service When beauty fades or wealthwanes, the bond too becomes less strong.Karma Yoga is the trunk for the tree of life; the branches, leaves and the fragrant flowers symbolise theBhakthi Yoga; and the ripe fruit and the sweetness therein, is the Jnaana Yoga, the Wisdom.3. 1. 74The slogan, Start early, drive slowly, reach safely’ applies not merely to journey by road or rail; it appliesalso to the journey from Untruth to Truth, from Darkness towards light and from Death to Immortality.The unrest, anxiety, fear and hatred that torment the world now is largely due to the neglect which kept offfrom the growing child the disciplines that can regulate the passions and emotions of man.10. 6. 74The good are always the target of malice and envy, slander and abuse from the wicked. Be assured thatyour goodness can be made tough enough to stand these ordeals. Avatars (divine incarnations) too are notexempt from the attentions of these wicked forces.Truth may be clouded for some little time by the fog of slander but, victory is certain. The forces of hatewill be defeated by their own wiles; they did for their own downfall; their action results in reactions, ruinousfor themselves.Persons who cannot tolerate the Glory of the Avatar have indulged in such campaigns, in every Age! Theyhave contributed to the heightening of the splendour and the spread of the message, in every age. Theiractivities are all instruments to the propagation of the glory throughout the world.Even today, such things happen; but, all of you must recognise their inevitability and their fundamentalfalsehood, and carry on your Saadhana in full faith and assurance, with undiminished enthusiasm and joy.The Sai Principle, the Sai Divinity can never be affected by any scandal; it can never be shaken by anytactics; its progress can never be halted. Do not pay heed to the barking you hear.Just as devotees remained unruffled in the Age of Krishna, you too must stand firm and be unaffected.Faith must endow you with courage and calmness. The life of Krishna teaches you this lesson more thanother: do not lend your ears or mortgage your minds to purveyors of scandal or lies.16. 6. 74Whatever we see or hear or smell or touch has an effect on the body, good or bad.4. 4. 75Genuineness consists in being true to the deepest core.28. 4. 75All are children of God; do not injure anyone, for, that injury will react on you quite soon. You reaps yousow; you cannot grow a fruit tree when the seed you have planted is that of a weed.Goodness of Godliness. Never talk ill of others; spend your time in showering love and in mutual help.Wake up early and sing the glory of God in group bhajan moving along the roads and cleansing theatmosphere, polluted by anger and hatred. Let the air you breathe be free from evil vibrations.

6. 7. 75Saraswathi is the Shakthi of Brahma, the First member of the Trinity, who is the source and sustenance ofall creative activity. Gayathri - the Vital Vedic manthra, which prays to the Source of Light, to illumine theIntellect of the aspirant - is also a facet of that Shakthi.7. 7. 75There are precious gems of wisdom within your hearts, which you require excavation, in order to be of anybenefit to you. Intelligence is the instrument you have to use, in order to gain them. At the very start, youwill encounter a boulder barring your way - that is the body - consciousness, the Ego. Desires are the looserocks that have also to be dug out and kept aside. Then, you come to a bed of sand - good thoughts, goodwords, good deeds; when this stratum is reached, you are nearing success. If you keep on in Satsang,everyday, your hearts will maintain their purity unimpaired; but if you seek one, only off and on, it will bedifficult to win Grace or particles of it, for, the vessel will be tarnished and untidy.14. 11. 75All efforts are now being concentrated on the production of more food, the building of more houses and themanufacture of more cloth. But what is more needed today is a total effort to make man manifest moretolerance, more humility, more brotherliness, more compassion and deeper awareness of the springs of joyand peace that lie within the heart of each one.1. 8. 76There are four chief types of people. Those who see only good in everything and everyone; those who seethe good as evil and the evil as evil; those who see the good as evil and the evil as good; and lastly those donot see the good at all, because even the good they see they transmute into evil. Of these one can toleratethe first three, perhaps, but the fourth type is definitely demonic.28. 8. 76The fruits of the tree of human are sweet, but they are encased in the bitter skin of egoism and ignoranceand have had inedible seeds of desire, anger, pride etc. One has to exercise one’s intelligence to peel offthe outer skin of ignorance, throw off the seeds of vice and wickedness and partakes of the sweet kernel oflife.14. 11. 76The heart is the film and the mind is the lens; turn the lens towards the world and worldly pictures will fallon the heart. Turn it towards God, and it will transmit pictures of the Divine.6. 3. 77Bad deed never yield good,Good deeds never breed bad.Neem seeds never yield mangoes,Mango seeds never breed neems.30. 7. 77The Sun is about 93 million miles away from the earth. Hence if we travel towards the Sun at the rate of500 miles per hour and 24 hours a day, it would take over 20 years to reach it. The Sun is so big that theterrestrial globe can be dumped into any one of the thousands of pools or ‘pits’ which astronauts havediscovered in its surface.17. 8. 77What is the end of freedom? The real end of freedom is not pleasure, but wisdom.Those who ridicule others eventually find themselves isolated and laughed at for their own idiosyncrasies.15. 10. 77

The Yajna in which animals were sacrificed at the alter (bali-peeth), is an external act, but it has an innersignificance. The mind is the sacrificial post and the animal instincts still resident in the human characterare to be slaughtered on the bali-peeth of the mind.25. 7. 78Laziness produces rust which in time turns man to dust.30. 7. 78Whatever you hold, once you have held itHold on to it, till you win.Whatever you have asked, once you have asked itAsk aloud for it, till you win.Whatever you wish, once you have wished itWish deeper for it, till you win.Whatever you have planned, once you have planned itPlan firmer for it, till you win.He must grant the Victory to stop the wail -Wail, weep and pray, till you win.Beware! Don’t lose heart and lag behind in effort.22. 11. 78Your body can be compared to a car. Your eyes are like the lights; your stomach, the petrol tank; yourmouth, the horn; your mind, the steering wheel; dharma (right action), artha (wealth), kaama (desire) andmoksha (liberation), the wheels; the air within the tyres is faith and intelligence, buddhi (intellect), theswitch.15. 1. 79Today is the Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu. It is the day of Uttharaayana when the Sun turns daily moreand more towards the north for a six-month period which is considered holier than the other six months.Pongal means boiling over, spilling over of milk, that is to say, the heart must spill over with delight at thegreat lessons that the Uttharaayana teaches us. The Sun is the presiding deity of the eye as well as theintellect and when the Sun turns north we must also decide to turn towards the holy path of God realisation.25. 1. 79Surrender is the secret of spiritual triumph.29. 3. 79Equanimity can arise only from the spring of devotion in the heart.30. 3. 79A temple is a reminder to the people around of the goal of life; it is a guide to greater spiritual endeavour; itis a step towards the Almighty; it is a warning against the vain pursuit after sensual pleasures. To revealthe path by which man can fulfil his destiny, realise the purpose for which he has been endowed with thehuman body with all its unique treasures of discrimination, imagination, intuition and capacity to keep all offrom material attractions.26. 6. 79Prosperity without the will to share it will only breed fear and anxiety.28. 9. 79Light travels at the speed of 1,88,000 miles per second7. 3. 80

The Sathwik guna (pure qualities) promotes peace, harmony and love. The raajasik (quality of passion) isrelated to desire; it prods man into constant activity. The thamasik (quality of inaction) has the peculiarproperty of twisting Reality out of stage and of making the truth appear as false, the false as truth.22. 7. 80Every animate being has to attain fulfilment; that is the destiny, however hard, however long, the journeywhen and how are determined by the nature of the cumulative effects of many lives. The efforts are shapednot only by the actions but even more by motives that induce them. The present condition of each is theconsequence of past actions and motives. Present actions and motives mould the future. Each one buildshis own fortune or misfortune.5. 4. 81What is the inner meaning of the expression Bhagavan? - Bha means having full auspiciousness andproperty, Ga means deserving praise and adoration. Bha also means light, splendour, Bhagawan is He whosheds and spreads light. Bhagavan is Jyothiswarupa, embodied light, Effulgence. Since He can and doesillumine all things and beings everywhere at all times. He is Bha-ga-van.1. 12. 82Talk, brave talk, has grown so wild;Work, brave work, has dried and died;Living is burdened with hollow pomp,Love is lost while hatred lasts.Feb 84(Students explanation) 21 omkars can be divided into 5 parts.1) Purification of the 5 Karmendriyas.2) Purification of the 5 Jnanendriyas.3) Purification of the vital airs or Pranas4) Purification of the Five sheaths or kosas5) In the last part, consisting of One lone omkar, the aspirant could feel oneness with Atma.30. 8. 84The Lord's family is an ideal one, maintaining harmony and peace in spite of the antagonistic elementspresent amongst them. The vehicles of Siva (the bull), Parvathi (the lion), Ganesa (the mouse) andSubramanya (the peacock) are in their natural state inimical to each other. But living in the presence ofthe Lord they shed their enmity and live at peace. Harmony in the Divine family shows that where there isDivinity there is peace and amity. Hatred and jealousy arise when the Omnipresence of the Divine isforgotten or ignored.23. 11. 84When we delight as He keeps us close and nearHe sows anxiety in the heart, of separation sad;When we despair and feel His sport is our wailHe grants us in plenty laughter to split our sides.When we ride on the crest of the wave of His praiseHe pricks our pride by well-timed jeers.When we roam quite free at the boon, ‘Don’t fear’He heaps trouble on trouble and passes silently by.We cannot turn away, nor forward proceed.Thus He who is in Parthi holds the world in thrill;Who at this time can solve for us His Mystery?25. 12. 85

There is the simple gesture of holding hands when one greets another in offering 'Namaskar. ' What is theinner significance of this gesture ? For one thing, the coming together of the two palms is a demonstrationof the unity that subsumes the multiplicity. For another, it represents the offering of the five sense organsand the five organs of action to the Lord as an act of surrender. The Muslims use the term 'Salaam' as aform of greeting. What does the word mean ? 'Sa' refers to 'Sat', the Lord who is the embodiment ofTruth, Awareness and Bliss; 'La' means 'layana' (majena). 'Salaam' means merging in the Supreme who isalso the embodiment of Truth and Bliss.7. 3. 86The watch has become a part of every wrist. Only, the wearer has not learnt the message of the watch, itspotential to arouse the latent divinity in man. The name WATCH has the five letters :W The 1st letter reminds us of the Sadhana of watching the word. One should not revel in idlegossip, or spreading slander and scandal and wound others and pollute oneself. Examine theword before the tongue pronounces it, is it true, will it hurt, is it necessary ? Warn the tongueagainst relishing falsehood, or indulging in outbursts of vilification and the like. Adhere toTruth at all costs. It is the basic human value.A The 2nd letter reminds us of the additional Sadhana of watching Action. Be vigilant that everyactivity conduces to your moral progress, follows the moral code Dharma. Man's Dharma is tolove and serve fellow men, practising truth without causing injury to others. 'A' teaches us tomanifest Dharma in every action of ours. Dharma is another great human value.T The 3rd letter indicates an additional Sadhana, a 3rd one watching our thoughts. . . Thoughtsmust reinforce the innate peace and tranquillity which are one's heritage. They should notcreate anxiety or anger, arrogance or envy, which are alien to the Divine Core of human beings.Thoughts when watched and waived, promote Santhi, another precious human value.C The 4th letter teaches one to watch the Character. Character is three-quarters of life. Man isthe very embodiment of Love; so his character finds expression through character saturated withLove.H The 5th letter 'H' instructs us to watch the heart and the feelings it originates. It reminds us ofthe human value of Ahimsa (non-violence). Heart does not mean the fist-size physicalequipment we have to purify and pump blood. It is the centre of emotions, good and bad. It hasto be watched so that good emotions alone are manifested. It must expand to include all livingbeings to feel kinship with all creation.4. 86The six enemies are1. Kama - Passion 3. Lobha - Greed 5. Mada - Pride2. Krodha - Hatred 4. Moha - Delusion 6. Matsaryam - Envy.11. 87A person may have outstanding physical beauty; he may have the sparkle of robust youth; he may boast of ahigh noble lineage; he may be a famed scholar. But if he lacks the virtue that spiritual discipline canensure, he is to be reckoned only as a beautiful flower with no fragrance.All are one; be alike to everyone.All are valuable, as the Divine never creates anything that is valueless.Anxiety is removed by faith in the Lord, the faith that tells you that whatever happens is for the best and thatthe Lord's Will be done. Quiet acceptance is the best armour against anxiety.As long as you are able to earn, so long will your kinsfolk be attached to you. After that, when your bodyhas become infirm, not one will speak to you even in your own home. [Sri Sankara]Attachment to the nation, affection to the language, reverence to religion and loyalty to society are allessential. They are all facets of the overwhelming sense of gratitude one feels for all that has shaped one.

Authority and power are powerful intoxicants. They pollute and poison man until he is destroyed. Theybreed misfortune.Be a lotus. The lotus born in slime and mud rises up through the water and lifts its head above it. Itrefuses to get wet although it springs up from water.Be always happy. Share your joy with others. This is true spirituality.Be good, do good and see good. This is the way to God.Be like a bee, drinking nectar from every flower - do not be like the mosquito, drinking blood anddistributing disease.Be like the honey bee which does not injure the flower from which it draws the nectar; it only helpspollination. And the nectar it gathers is realised as honey by others. Look at the fly; it seeks only uncleanmatter. And, later, settling on clean matter, it renders that too unclean.Bear all and do nothing; hear all and say nothing; give all and take nothing; serve all and be nothing.Bear with fortitude both loss and grief. Try and search for plans to achieve joy and gain.Both inner and outer purity are essential for man's physical and mental health. Most persons are concernedonly about external physical cleanliness. People tend to ignore inner cleanliness in the belief that the heartand mind are not visible to others. But they should realise that the physical body is made up of the fiveelements and will return to the dust sometime or other. It is the state of the spirit that is important.Being is lost in becoming.Bring love of God here and take with you Divine power! The more that is accomplished the more pleased Iam. Bring what you have, your sorrows and grieves, worries and anxieties and take from me joy and peace,courage and confidence.Consciousness in Nature is not purposeless. When it is filled with ego, it gets deformed, when it is turnedtowards the Atma, it becomes Divine.Contraction is extinction, whereas expansion is life.Co-operation and mutual respect must become part of one's daily conduct, mental make-up and one's ownnature.Devotion without humanity, Patriotism without morality will be of no use and brings harm to thecommunity.Difficulties do not crush men, they make them.Do not cause injury to any one's self-respect, intentionally or unintentionally.Do not indulge in speculative debates while proceeding on the spiritual path.19. 1. 88If for doing a good deed, you have to cause a little harm, even that should be regarded as a help. But, in allsuch cases, there should be absolutely no element of self-interest. Whatever help is rendered with a selfishmotive behind it is no help at all.

If you desire to cultivate one-pointedness, do not when in a crowd or bazaar scatter your vision to the fourcorners and on everything, but see only the road in front of you, just enough to avoid accidents to yourself.If your Dhyanam or Japam do not progress properly or if the desires you have entertained do not come tofruition, do not get dispirited with God. It will dispirit you even more and you will lose the peace, howeversmall or big, that you might have earned. During Dhyanam and Japam you should not be dispirited,desperate or discouraged. When such feelings come take it that it is the fault of your Sadhana andendeavour to do them correctly.In matters relating to the Lord all have equal rights; all are equal.Inhale only the breath of God! That is the real Divine life. Be ego less, hollow like the flute. Krishna, theLord, will then breathe through you and fill the ethereal emptiness you have achieved. He will createcaptivating melodies enrapturing all creation.Instead of searching for the faults of others, examine yourself for personal faults that need to be corrected.Just as you have fans to cool the atmosphere, so the `fans' of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love arenecessary to reduce the heat of ignorance, injustice, falsehood and lack of discipline.Learn to love your country, without hatred for other countries. Get rid of differences based on community,creed or caste. Regard all mankind as one family.22. 1. 88Have undiminished kindness towards all beings and also the spirit of self-sacrifice.He who loses his temper at all times is disliked.He who loses his temper at the wrong time is ignored.He who loses his temper at the right moment is respected.Health is wealth. Look after it.Hear good things; see good; do good; think good; then you will get the grace of God, as all the eviltendencies will be uprooted.Hold all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you musttreat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Then you mustelevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.Human birth is a consequence of past sins and ignorance. It is necessary to destroy sins, eliminateignorance and achieve peace and serenity in life. Agni will burn our sins to ashes. The Sun-God destroysour ignorance. The moon cools the agitation of the heart. These three are embodied in the name Rama.Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.Humility and tolerance must characterise the behaviour of a Sai devotee.If animal feelings are washed out, Divine feelings begin to overflow instead.If anyone blames you or abuses you or hurts you, do not do the same to him in return. Behave nobly andwith patience. When a dog bites a man, he does not bite the dog in return.If anyone speaks to you on any subject, having understood it wrongly, do not think of other wrong notionswhich will support that stand but grasp only the good and the sweet in what he says. True meaning is to beappreciated as desirable, not wrong meaning or many meanings, which give no meaning at all and causeonly the hampering of Ananda.

17. 7. 88To give up all the prompting of desire in the mind is the negative process; to install attachment to God is thepositive process.To resurrect love and compassion, you must kill jealousy and selfishness, purify your hearts.Today the world is plunged in chaos and conflict. What is the reason for this? All the joys and sorrowsexperienced by man stem from his actions. The actions themselves are the result of thoughts arising in themind. It is only when the thoughts are good that the actions will be pure. When the actions are pure,society will be healthy and peaceful.Treat each trouble you encounter as a fortunate opportunity to develop your strength of mind, and totoughen you with greater hardihood.Truth is God; speak the truth.Try to prevent the five sins that the body commits: killing, adultery, theft, drinking intoxicants and theeating of flesh. It is a great help for the highest life if these also are kept as far away as possible.We become what we believe we are.What man should seek is not longevity in life but the divinisation of life. He must develop his goodqualities. The span of life is determined by Time. It is virtue that has to be nourished. The character andconduct of a person are based uponhis qualities.7. 8. 88Whatever people may say about the faults that you know are not in you, do not feel for it; as for the faultsthat are in you, try to correct them yourself, even before others point them out to you. Do not harbouranger or vengeance against persons who point out your faults; do not retort, pointing out the faults of thosepersons themselves, but show your gratitude to them. Trying to discover their faults is a greater mistake onyour part. It is good for you to know your faults, it is no good your knowing others' faults.Whatever we do reacts upon us. If we do good we shall have happiness and if evil unhappiness.Whatever you feel should not be done to you by others, avoid your doing such to others.When people go to a temple of God they do not always conduct themselves properly. In a temple youshould be concerned only with worship and not think of anything else. Instead of concentrating the mindon the Divine, the mind is allowed to wander hither and thither and think about useless mundane affairs.With the result that people tend to forget that if they secure the grace of God all other things will beaccomplished easily.There is no possession so great as non desire either in this world or in the worlds beyond. [Tiruvalluvar]There is only one caste, the caste of humanity.There is only one religion, the religion of Love.There is only one God, He is omnipresent.There is nothing like silence to still the restlessness of the heart.They are free who are free of desire. [Kural]This body is the torch, where Atma is the cell, eye the bulb and intellect the switch.

Those anxious to live in joy must always be doing good.Those who conquer states and earn fame in the world are hailed as heroes, no doubt, but those who haveconquered the senses are heroes who must be acclaimed as the conquerors of the Universal.Those who give up their body and leave, do not take with them from here even a handful of earth. Whenone does not himself learn to give up, Nature teaches him, on his death, this great truth about the need andvalue of detachment and renunciation.Though the world has become a very small globe, as a result of fast means of communication and transport,man has not yet learn the art of living together in close proximity, as brothers and as children of the oneGod. The closer men are brought, the larger the differences appear. Thus the world is now riddled withproblems of conflicting cultures, competing creeds and contesting ambitions. The sorrows of one statespread fast into all its neighbouring states and in fact the whole world. The world has become one vastbattlefield.Time is everything. Don't waste time.Time waste is life waste.It is rare in this worldTo get the company of the good;The wicked are a-plenty.Granite stones are everywhereBut you have to search for diamonds.15. 9. 88To achieve oneness with the Divine, one will have to be prepared to sacrifice everything.20. 9. 88When you go about with the conviction, `God is with me, I am in God', you will have no fear.Whenever you get a little leisure, do not spend it in talking about all and sundry, but utilise it in meditatingon God, or in doing service to others.Whenever you have a little free time, do not spend it talking about other people. Utilise it by meditating orby doing good and needed service to others.Whether a person is a master of all sciences or famous as a great intellectual, he is certain to be counted outof scholars and pundits if he has not humility and discipline in his dealings with others. Such persons willnot be honoured by society. They may win respect for some time but that attitude will decline pretty soon.Who are you? Who am I? Who is my mother, and who is my father? Reflect on this. You will then realisethat the world and its cares are but the cares and anxieties of a dream, and you will be able then to freeyourself from that dream. [Adisankara]Who gave man his digestive organs?Who is the author of birth and death?To know Him is the height of Wisdom.Forget not this truth, oh Man!Whoever assigns his wealth, strength, intellect and devotion towards the promotion of the progress ofmankind is to be considered as a person who is to be revered. They are those who are born for a noblepurpose, who are observing the holy vow of seva unsullied by thoughts of self.

Win the battle of life by being in the world but free from attachment.Yield not to cowardice; do not give up Ananda.You are the embodiment of love.You can't always oblige a person but you can always speak to them obligingly.You must curb greed and anger, envy and pride and live in amity and the spirit of brotherhood.You must possess control of the senses, an unruffled character and non-attachment.You should conquer lust and vanquish anger. Exile from your mind greed, hate and jealousy.Your body can be compared to a car. Your eyes are the lights, your stomach is the petrol tank; your mouthis the horn, the mind is the steering wheel; the wheels are Dharma, Artha, Karma and Moksha. The airwithin the tyres is faith. Intelligence is the switch.Your body is the temple of God.Your conscience knows the real source of joy; it will prod you towards the right path. Your responsibilityis to take it as a guide and not disobey it every time it contradicts your fancy.Your nature is revealed by your acts, your gestures, your looks, your speech, your feeding habits, yourdress, your gait. Therefore, pay attention to ensure that your speech, your movements, your thoughts, yourbehaviour are all right and full of love, sathwic, and devoid of wildness and waywardness.Your progress is reflected back as grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror justreflects. It has no partiality or prejudice.Remember, there is no morality higher than Truth, there is no prayer more fruitful than Seva.Rivers are dammed and the waters are stored in reservoirs. Through canals, they have to be taken to thefields to feed the crops in order to appease the hunger of millions. So too we store the knowledge availablein libraries in our heads as reservoirs. It has to be utilised through canals of service in order to fertilise andfeed the minds of one's fellow men and make them more intelligent, more skilled and more loving. Thenation will thus become more prosperous and happy.Secular and spiritual education are like the two halves in the seed pulse; the germ that sprouts in between, itis fed by both.See good. Do good. Be good.Service to man is service to God.The heart full of compassion is the temple of God.Seven is a sacred number, as is evident from the sacredness of the seven sages (saptarishis), the sevencolours of the rainbow, the seven sevaras and the seven days of the week.21. 11. 88Man has three instruments gifted to him: the mind which involves him in thought, the power of speechwhich enables him to communicate his thoughts and the power of action by which he can execute histhoughts, alone or with others, for himself and for others.

Man has to contribute his best for the happiness of others if he really wants to be himself in a state ofpermanent joy.Man's life is determined by his qualities. The transformation of the world is related to the transformation ofthe individual. The world will change only when the individual changes. When individuals are good,society also becomes good. We tend to attach importance to the external forms of social institutions. Welay stress on the conditions prevailing in the political, economic, social and environmental spheres.Changes in these spheres are not enough. Mental and spiritual transformation is more essential.Men without gratitude are worse than wild animals.17. 2. 89Be always happy, share your joy with others. This is true spirituality.Love is God; Live in LoveTruth is God; Live in TruthBliss is God, Live in BlissWhen you go about with the conviction, ‘God is with me; I am God’, you will have no fear.6. 3. 89Money and mansions are not the only wealth; hoard the wealth of the spirit. Character is wealth. Goodconduct is wealth. Spiritual wisdom is wealth.Nature is the best preacher.Never speak words that demean anyone. When we are friendly with another and like him very much,whatever he does is certain to strike us as good. When the wind changes and the same person is dislikedeven the good he does strikes us as bad.Never yield to indolence or despair. Suffer loss or grief with an evenminded attitude - this will strengthenyour character.No two persons can agree on any matter, be they brothers and sisters, lifemates or father and son. It is onlyas pilgrims on the Godward path that two can heartily agree and lovingly co-operate. You can be a pilgrimeven while attending to your family duties, only if you can feel that each moment is a step towards Him.Do everything as if dedicated to Him, directed by Him, work for His adoration or for serving His children.Test all your actions, words and thoughts on this touchstone. Will this be approved by God? Will thisglorify His name?Of Him who has no name or form, we sing in a thousand sacred names and we clap our hands in joy.[Maanikkavaachagar]On various occasions, the Lord subjects devotees to different kinds of tests and trials with a view to raisingthem spiritually to a higher level. The Lord, who is the source of all wisdom, will confer illumination onlyon those who approach Him.Only if you are prepared to go through trials and difficulties will you be able to raise yourself in life.24. 4. 89When the speech is sweet, the speaker becomes endearing. Hence men should learn to speak sweetly andpleasingly. Sweet speech confers Peace. It is the means of self realisation.Eyes that seek evil, ears that relish evil, tongue that craves evil, nose that enjoys the foul, and hands thatdelight in evil -these must be totally avoided.

Example is more effective than precept. An ounce of practice is worth more than a ton of preaching.Parents must set good examples for children; teachers must set good examples for students; leaders must setgood examples for those whom they expect will follow them.Expand your heart so that it can encompass all.Exterior charm attracts the animal; internal charm, resulting from character, pleases the Lord.First give up the evil tendency to feel impatient at the prosperity of others and the desire to harm them. Behappy that others are happy. Sympathise with those who are in adversity and wish for their prosperity.That is the goal of cultivating the love for God.Follow the Master,Face the devil,Fight to the end,Finish the game.Be good, Do good and see good. This is the way to God.There is only on e caste, the caste of HumanityThere is only one religion, the religion of LoveThere is only one God, He is Omnipresenta heart full of compassion is the temple of GodService to man is service to GodFood is God. Don't waste food.From the moment, avoid all bad habits. Do not delay or postpone. They do not contribute the least joy.God is beauty. Beauty is God.God is Love. Love is God.Happiness and misery are due to one's own actions. Whether one accepts this truth or rejects it, one has togo through all the consequences of one's actions. This is the law of nature. One may not believe insummer or winter, in fire or rain, but one cannot escape from heat and cold. Their effect will affect him,nevertheless. Therefore, the best course is to direct our activities along proper lines.Happiness is union with God.Haste makes waste, waste makes worry.So do not be in a hurry.17. 12. 89Let attachment to Him who has no attachment be your ONE attachment. That attachment will help you tofree yourself from other attachments. [Tiruvalluvar]Life is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.Life is like a waterbubble on a lotus leaf.Life is the best teacher.Life itself is a market; in life giving and taking, bargaining and speculating is part of the game. Life has itsups and downs, its profits and losses, its joys and sorrows, depreciation and appreciation and balancesheets. But giving of Devotion in exchange for liberation is the most powerful Business of all.

Life on earth is, as on the ocean, ever restless, with waves of joy and grief, loss and gain, the swirling of thecurrents of desires and the whirlpools of passion, and the ogres of greed and hate. To cross the ocean, theonly reliable raft is a heart filled with love for God and man.Look upon external nature and society as the vesture of God, the expression of His will, the manifestation ofHis glory, His power, His might and majesty. See these in every blade of grass, every flower, every slice offruit. Learn lessons from the rivers, the mountains, the stars and the sky.Love all. Serve all.Love is God; live in Love.Truth is God; live in Truth.Bliss is God; live in Bliss.21. 5. 90Even if you cannot oblige, you can at least speak obligingly.Every man has three bodies - the gross (or physical), the subtle (sookshama) and the causal (kaarani).When the physical body is rendered pure by taking pure food, the subtle body consisting of the mind ispurified by pure desires, and the causal body represented by the conscience is sanctified by sacred thoughts,the inherent divinity in man can be manifested and fullness in life achieved.Everything in life depends on maintaining the balance, whether it be walking, riding a bicycle or driving acar. To-day this balance has been lost because of excessive knowledge and misuse of technical skills.Through sight, hearing, speech or thought, knowledge is being misused or wasted. Every action involvesusing of energy. If the energy in the body is properly utilised, then balance will be maintained and thebody will be in good shape.May 90Reform yourself first before thinking of reforming others.Feel happy when others are happy. Do not give room for envy.Only when you follow the dictates of your conscience can you reach the right destination.There is no disease equal to greedThere is no enemy greater than angerthere is no sorrow that is greater than povertythere is no happiness equal to wisdomThink no evil; think what is goodSee no evil; see what is goodHear no evil; hear what is goodTalk no evil; talk what is goodDo no evil; do what is good3. 6. 90The first spiritual discipline is to search for the faults and weaknesses within yourself and strive to correctthem and become perfect.The fruit is sweet but the rind can afford to be bitter, for after all it is the juice of the orange and the sugarcontent of the sugar-cane that counts. Put off the rinds of anger, malice, envy and greed and assimilate thesweetness of the fruit so that the sweetness can develop within you.The heart full of compassion is the temple of God.

The mischief-mongering tendency should be plucked out by the roots and thrown off. If allowed to exist itwill undermine life itself.The present is the product of the past and the future is the result of the present. Both the past and the futureare contained in the present. Hence live in the present with good thoughts and good actions. Rid yourheart of all bad feelings and make it pure and holy.The real renunciation is the giving up of desire.The result of your effort depends on the extent of your effort and your sacrifice. The fruits that you get willcorrespond to whatever seeds you plant.The soul is like a flash of lightning in the spinal column. It is called Sushuma naadi between the 9th and 12vertebrae. It is very sensitive and moves in curves like flashes of lightning. The souls is present in everypart of the body and is not fixed to any one area. But this spine area is very sensitive. (The LivingDivinity, p 116 `Where does the soul reside?')The task before mankind is to plant the seeds of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love in hearts made readyfor their reception, to foster the saplings and watch over them with love and care until they grow into treesyielding a rich harvest of sweet fruits, and to enable all to share in that sustaining repast.The thought in the mind, the word on the tongue and the deed by the hand - try to make all three, one.The world appears dual according to our likes and dislikes. When you like a person, everything he does,even if bad, is pleasing; when you dislike him even the good he does strikes you as bad.The world can be saved only by the power of the spirit inherent in everyone; that has to be tapped byindividual discipline and by the grace of God which can be won only through love, purity and service toothers. If these two are absent, the total destruction of creation is certain; it is inevitable.There are three types of men: those who seek pleasures for themselves only with no attention paid to thepleasures of others, those who consider pleasures of others first and desire thereby the pleasures of theirown, and those who try to prevent others from getting pleasures or benefits even at the cost of their own.There are four classes of persons: those who pay attention to their own faults and the excellence of others,those who highlight their own excellence as well as the excellence of others, those who pay attention only totheir own excellence and those who present their own faults as excellence and the excellence of others asfaults. Each one can discover for himself the group to which he belongs.There cannot be a child without a mother, a disciple without a teacher, a devotee without God. Each isassociated with the other in an inextricable bond.There is no difference between culture and spirituality. In fact the culture of all countries is based onspirituality. The two are integrally related. Dividing cultures on the basis of nationality or religion is asign of narrow mindedness. Religion is a much misunderstood word. Religion really means Realisation.It is the same common experience for all who have realised God.There is no disease equal to greed.There is no greater enemy than anger.There is no misery greater than poverty.There is no happiness greater than wisdom.To give up all the prompting of desire in the mind is the negative process; To install attachment to God isthe positive process.

Fill the reservoir with water; when you turn the taps, the buckets will be full. cultivate Love and Devotion;then youractivities will be saturated with compassion and charity; they will yield the golden harvest of Joyand Peace. The water must be pure; the love must be unselfish and universal. You can yourself judgewhether your love is narrow or broad, whether your devotion is shallow or deep. Are you content withyour achievement? Examine it yourself - pronounce the verdict on yourself, by your own discrimination.Purity of motive is the best guarantee that you will have peace. An uneasy conscience is a tormentingcompanion. Righteous action will leave no bad effects, to disturb your sleep or health.23. 11. 90Do not seek to find differences between one person and another. Seek rather ways and means to strengthenthe bonds of kinship.Don't talk too much.Duty is God. Do your duty.Each nation or community has the joy or grief, good life or bad, decided by and derived from its activities.Eschew selfishness. Promote Unity. Enjoy the bliss of harmony.2. 9. 91During festive occasions, green leaves and plants are displayed at the entrance to houses. Reason: Duringfestive occasions, large groups of people used to gather in houses and they exhale carbondioxide whichfouls the air. The green leaves and plants serve to absorb the carbondioxide and give out oxygen, which isessential for the health of the people. As the houses in olden days had only small windows, this practicehelped to ensure fuller supply of oxygen.The use of cow-dung for cleaning floors in houses had a scientific basis. The cow-dung has antisepticproperties and its use in cleaning floors served to diminish germs. When cowdung water was sprinkled infront of houses, all disease-causing germs were destroyed.In the past women were accustomed to making use of turmeric for cleaning the body. Turmeric was alsoused for adoring the threshold. This turmeric also has antiseptic properties. The use of turmeric served todestroy germs entering the houses. The application of turmeric helped to prevent the growth of hair on theface.Mantra does not really mean pronouncements like "Om Namshivaya" or Om Namo Narayanaya". Mantrais that which gets established in the mind by the process of contemplation on it.26. 7. 91Creation is a manifestation of the union of the Seer and the SeenLife is a challenge, meet it. Life is a dream, realise it. Life is a game, play it.22. 11. 91Only if you are prepared to go through trials and difficulties will you be able to raise yourself in life.Our life is a football ground and each one of us is the ball. Our good qualities, like truth, righteousness,peace, love are on one side, and bad qualities like attachment, pride, hatred are on the other. Both partieskick the ball and try to secure a goal. The poor ball must suffer these kicks as long as it has the air ofegoism in it, but once the air is gone, the kicks also stop.Our race is only one: the human race.We worship one: God.Our caste is only one: the Caste of Love.

Our language is only one: the language of the heart.Of all the workshops in the world, the workshop of the body is the most wonderful, because it is thetabernacle of the Lord.One may have scholarship, may well be educated, or eminent in other ways, but if he has no spiritual urge,all these are of no avail.Past is past; why survey the road you have covered already? Do not pine for past mistakes or measure thedepth of past pitfalls. Be happy with your present potentialities and march forward.Patience is all the strength that man needs.Politics without principles, education without character, science without humanity, and commerce withoutmorality are not only useless but positively dangerous.Preaching austerity and practising luxury will reveal one's hollowness.Realise the divinity within you and recognise that it is in one and all.Silence is the only language of the realised. Practice moderation in speech; that will help you in manyways. It will develop love, for most misunderstandings and friction arise out of carelessly spoken words.When the foot slips, the wound can be healed, but when the tongue slips, the wound it causes in the heart ofanother will fester for life. The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood, scandalising, findingfaults with others and excessive speech. All these have to be avoided; there must be Peace for theindividual as well as for society.Sorrows and distresses are like the clouds that flit across the skies. They cannot injure the blue depths ofspace. Your duty is to strive on, from the very moment.Speak softly; shed comfort with every glance of yours. Do not be slaves to your sensual desires.The `cows' of Truth, Justice, Peace and Love cannot survive in the human heart when the `tigers', namelygreed, anger and pride, enter and play havoc. Today the human heart, especially the heart of the educatedman, has become the lair of wild desires and cruel habits.The end of wisdom is freedom.The end of culture is perfection.The end of education is character.The end of knowledge is love.7. 2. 93It is charity that lends adornment to the hand. Only Truth lends beauty to speech. The scriptures serve toadorn the ears. Man needs no more beautiful ornaments than these. The glory of Divinity consists insanctifying human existence by these ornaments.20. 2. 93What can Kali or the forces of evil do to one whose heart is filled with compassion.Who wears the jewel of truthful speech, whose limbs are devoted to the well-being of others?14. 4. 93"Sri" means very sacred. . . . In order to foster immortality in mortals it is customary to use "Sri as prefixto the names of males and "Srimathi" to those of females. . . Even when God comes down to earth asDivine incarnation such as Rama and Krishna, the prefix "Sri" is added to their names and we call them as"Sri Rama" and "Sri Krishna". The purpose is to signify the immortality of God even when He assumes themortal human form.

22. 5. 93When one looks at the seed, the tree is not visible; when one looks at the tree, the seed is not visible.29. 5. 93In this vast world, there are today more than 500 crores of human being. There may be differences amongthem in the name and form and in their food and recreation habits. But when you view their form thephysical point of view, all human beings are one.21. 7. 93Anything can happen to anyone at any place or any time. No one is competent to determine where a certainthing should take place. Life may end in a town, in water, or in a forest. Each one's life will end in theplace, the manner and at the time prescribed for him. This is inescapable. This is according to theoperation of Nature's law based on the pairs of opposites in life.Gold acquires greater brilliance by being heated in the crucible. Likewise a diamond becomes morebrilliant when it is cut to produce more facets. Trials and tests are stepping stones to fame for good people.10. 8. 93God is called in His Cosmic form as Vishnu, who permeate everything in the cosmos. God is the cause andthe cosmos is the effect. You must try to understand the various attributes of the Lord. Vishnu is depictedas having a conch in one hand and a wheel in another. In a third hand he carries a mace and in the fourth alotus. What is the esoteric significance of all this? The conch is a symbol of sound. Hence, God isdescribed as the embodiment of sound. The wheel symbolises the Wheel of time. The Lord is the masterof Time and Sound. The mace signifies strength or power. This means that the Lord holds in his hand thehearts of all beings.As regards the "Saharara Chakra (in the head of the human body), it a thousand-petalled lotus each petalhaving 16 "kalaas" (or phases). There thus 16,000 kalaas in the Sahasraara. This phase were symbolicallydescribed as the wives of the Lord.The means to prolong or shorten man's life lie in one's hands. Your life span is prolonged when you arecalm and filled with pure thoughts. When you are filled with envy, anger, hatred and conceit, your lifespan gets shortened. The envious man gets no sleep at all. Sleeplessness ruins the health even more thanlack of food. Envy torments a man all the time. These troubles lead to shortening one's life. As forhatred, the man filled it with cannot even bear the sight of his enemy. He suffers from hallucinations,which consume his body and spirit .Anger is the cause of destroying the divine potencies in man. Hatred ruins a man's circulatory system.Envy drives the man crazy by depriving him of his sleep. In that condition he cannot relish his food.Thus, these evil qualities, hatred, envy and anger are wasting diseases. When you consider yourselves asdevotees of God, you should get rid of these three evil qualities. Lead peaceful and pure lives.30. 8. 93The merger in the Divine of devotees who have worshipped the Lord in many ways takes place after a longperiod of trials and tribulations, but it lasts eternally. In the case of the wicked, who remember the Lord,constantly out of hatred, the merger takes place quickly but remains only for a short spell. The merger ofsouls in the Divine takes place for different reasons. In the case of Kamsa it was fear (of Krishna, whichmade him always remember Krishna), hatred in the case of Sisupala and Dantavakra, maternal affection inthe case of Yasoda, who merged in Krishna through love. The Gopikas merged in the Lord through singlepointed devotion and Radha merged in the Lord owing to Ekaatmabhavana (complete sense of spiritualoneness). All attained merger. But in each case, it was upto a specific level.24. 10. 93

Born from the warm womb of the mother, sustained by the fire of his digestive organ, man ultimately endson the funeral pyre. Fire is thus the basic cause of human birth ad death.Mishaps in life should be regarded as happenings which serve to further one's spiritual progress.25. 12. 93Whenever one makes Namaskaram to elders, what is its significance? It signifies the bringing together ofthe five senses of perception and the five senses of action into one, thus unifying the different senses.14. 10. 94Navarathri means "nine nights. " What does the nine signify? There are nine "Grahas" planets according toAstrology). The human body has nine openings. If a deep enquiry is made, it will be found that mankindis dependant on the planets (grahas). Although astrologers speak about nine planets, in reality, there areonly two "planets" that matter. They are "Raga" attachment) and "Dwesha" (hatred).During the Navarathri festival, for the purpose of eradicating one's demonic tendencies, the deities wereworshipped with Kumkumam (sacred red powder). The red powder is a symbol of blood. The meaning ofthis worship is offering one's blood to the Lord and receiving in return the gift of peace from the Lord.The penultimate day of the Navarathri festival is dedicated to what is termed "Ayuda puja (worship ofweapons). The weapons to be worshipped are the divine powers in man.Fill the reservoir with water; when you turn the taps, the buckets will be full. Cultivate Love andDevotion; then your activities will be saturated with compassion and clarity; they will yield the goldenharvest of Joy and Peace. The water must be pure: the love must be unselfish and universal. You canyourself judge whether your love is narrow or broad, whether your devotion is shallow or deep. Are youcontent with your achievement? Examine it yourself - pronounce the verdict on yourself, by your owndiscrimination. Purity of motive is the best guarantee that you will have peace. An uneasy conscience is atormenting experience. Righteous action will leave no bad effects, to disturb your sleep or health.18. 12. 94Men should go away from the worldly path like the fish which swim against the current in a river. That isthe way to realise the Divine. If you allow to be carried away by the worldly current, you can only meetwith a sad end.What is the significance of worshipping the Lord’s feet? There is the devotees yearning for touching theLord.How is this to be done? The easiest way is to touch the feet of the Lord. A spiritual significance is attachedto the touching of the Lord’s feet which sanctify the earth by walking on it. Scientifically also there ismeaning in ‘Paadasparsa’ (touching the feet). The blood circulates from the feet to the head. When onetouches the toe of the Lord’s feet he can experience a current present in the toe. That is a divine energy.From a mundane point of view the body appears as a physical form. But from the spiritual point of view,there is an aura around everybody. It has effulgence (Thejas) from which arises ‘Ojas’ (spiritual energy).This energy produces vibrations. That is why it is declared: ‘Darsanam paapanaasanam’ (Sight of the Lorddestroys all sins) ‘Sambhashanam Sankatanaasanam’ (Dialogue with the Lord destroys all sorrows)‘Sparsanam Karmavimochanam’ (the touch of the Lord frees one from the consequences of one’s actions).When the devotee touches the Lord, it is like the linking of the negative and positive wires, which generatesdivine energy. This connection should be from heart to heart. Only then the Divine energy will flow(from the Lord to the devotee). Then the Lord and the devotee become one.9. 4. 95God’s words, actions, thoughts are always pure, selfless and infinitely precious.20. 5. 95

People worship the photo of the father or the grandfather after they have passed away. The reason is thatthe picture is a reminder of one’s ancester. Similarly, the worship of a stone idol is entitled to say:‘Doubtless it is a stone. But the stone bears the image of the God I worship. ’ The devotee’s devotionalfeelings are imprinted on the idol.What does Hindu means?H stands for HumilityI for IndividualityN for NationalityD for DivinityU for Unity.It is when all the five qualities are present, we have a real Hindu. Of these, humility is most important.Whatever the Divine does, whether it is something small or great, it is for the good of mankind.7. 7. 95 (Good company)When a smoker joins a group of non-smokers, there is every likelihood of his giving up that bad habit; butwhen a non-smoker falls into a den of smokers, he is certain to become a victim soon! Such is the subtleinfluence of the company one keeps. The company you join must be qualitatively and quantitativelygreater and higher than the one in which you are now caught.You must take all the trouble and welcome all the patience needed, to seek Sathsang and remain therein.For, It is not being born a man that is the sign of the glory; it is living as a man that confers the dignityA cup of water has no cash value; but, if it is poured into ten cups of milk, it acquires the value that peopleattach to milk! If on the other hand, one cup of milk is poured intto ten cups of water, it looses the value ithad and is condemned as useless. So, the Sathsang you join must be purer, more venerable, and sticking tohigher ideals of virtue and truth than you yourselves.23. 10. 95Depavali is celebrated today as a festival of lights. with the firing of crakers and display of ifreworks. Inolden days the ancients rejoiced over the destruction of the demon Narakasura and let off firworks. Thereis another meaning in the burning of crackers on Dipavali day. This is the rainy season. All kinds ofgerms fill the atmosphere. The smoke from the crakers destroys these germs. Thereby infectious diseasesare controlled. The joy derived from the burning of crackers should really come from the elimination ofbad qualities within one.14. 1. 96the farmer has no fear of going without food;One who chants the Lord’s name has no fear of worries;The silent man has no fear of discord;The careful man has no fear of danger.17. 2. 96As long as one is proud, men will not like him. Only when he supresses his pride will he be liked by oneand all.The man filled with anger will have ne happiness. He will be immersed in misery. When he subdues hisanger, he will be free from grief.When a man has insatiable desires he will never feel contented. When he control his desires, he will betruly rich.A miserly person will never feel happy. When he gives up greed he will realise happiness.GOD

1953The body is a temple in which the eternal spirit resides as the indwelled.1955The Lord is a mountain of prema; any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaustHis Plenty. He is an Ocean of mercy without a limiting shore. Bhakti is the easiest way to win His Graceand also to realise that He pervades everything; in fact, is everything!This I will tell you, there is no escaping it; all creatures have to reach God some day or other, by the longroute or by the short route.The Lord is a mountain of Prema [Love]; any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannotexhaust His plenty. He is an Ocean of Mercy without a limiting shore.A child told its mother when it went to bed at night, "Mother! Wake me up when I get hungry". Themother answered, "There is no need, your hunger will itself wake you". So too, when the hunger for Godcomes, it will itself activise you and make you seek the food you need.To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him for it. But to theGod intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind. Of all the insanities that harassman, God-madness is the least harmful, the most beneficial. The world has suffered untold damage due toits `mad' rulers and `mad' guides; but nothing but harmony, peace, brotherliness and love have come out ofthe `God-madness' of man!1. 8. 56In this world which is impermanent and ever transforming, the Immanent Power of the Lord is the onlypermanent and fixed entity. In order to realise the Eternal and the true, one has perforce to attach oneselfto that Source and Sustenance. There is no escape from this path. It is the destiny of all, irrespective ofage or scholarship, clime or caste, sex or status.It is God that inspires you to good acts and warns you against bad. Listen to that Voice. Obey that Voiceand you will not come to any harm.It should be realised, however, that there is no greater friend for anyone than God.Let the Will of the Lord prevail; one's duty is but to conduct oneself with the current of His grace.Living beings are different but the life principle is one.Caste and creed are different but humanity is one.Flowers are different but worship is one.Visions are different. God is one.Love of God is the sure means for achieving perennial, Divine bliss. The essence of the study of sastras,puranas and vedas is to develop love of God. If that love is not there, all these studies are worth nothing.Spiritual exercises lacking in the love of God are like fruit without juice.2. 2. 58.The Lord is not affected by either praise or blame. He is above and beyond the dualities that agitate man.He has neither favourites nor foes. Your goodness yields good to you; your badness brings about bad foryou.The Lord is the Immanent Power in everything; those who refuse to believe that the image in the mirror is apicture of themselves, how can they believe in the Lord, when He is reflected in every object around them?

23. 2. 58The intensity with which a devotee calls on God, God also looks to him with the same intensity.The Lord has to assume the Form you choose, the Name you fancy; in fact, you shape Him so.You will hear a Githa specially designed for you if you call upon the Lord in your own heart. He is there,installed as your own charioteer. Ask Him and He will answer.24. 3. 58Have the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart; then, you cannot hate anyone, you cannot indulge inunhealthy rivalries, you will not find fault with anyone. Life becomes soft, sweet and smooth.Have you not seen one single mango seed grow into a tree which gives thousands of fruits, in each of whichthere is to be found a seed identical to the one which was first planted? So too, the one Lord can be found inevery being created by His Will.Everyone has Love towards some one thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone hasultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added lustre.I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith, so that the Christianbecomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim and a Hindu, a better Hindu.When God is in your heart, who can lead you to destruction.You are really three persons, not one. The one you think you are, the one others think you are and the oneyou really are.Everyone should have the spiritual family comprising Truth as the father, Love as the mother, Peace as thedaughter and Wisdom as the son.This incarnation has come to uphold the true and suppress the false. I behave like you, moving , singing,laughing and journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden to chastise and warn! I shallscorch the wrong-doer for his wrong and soothe the virtuous for his righteousness. Justice shall be metedout to all.Man and ‘God in human form’ are the two potentials. Man cooperate and become the vehicle of Divinepower if he has acquired the two essential qualities - Truth and Divine Love.If only you surrender your wish and will, your fancies and fantasies to God, He will lead you aright and giveyou peace and joy. You must not run after diverse ends and flitting pleasures. Leave everything to God,accept whatever happens, as His will.Practise the constant presence of Godandlearn to offer all your activities at the Feet of the Lord, as an act ofworship. Then they will be free from fault.Attach yourself to God and delusion of the world will automatically get loosened.Believe that God is the inner Truth in everything and being.Deserve the grace of God by helping the weak and poor, the diseased and the disabled, the distressed andthe downtrodden.God is everywhere and in everyone. The whole universe is inhabited by Him. One should find God inevery object.

God is the sugar that can make the tasteless drink of life into a sweet potion. Stir the sugar well so thateach molecule of the water is saturated with its taste.Listen to the voice of God, that warns, prompts and prevents; you cannot then be wrong.OthersLord make me an instrument of thy peace;Where there is hatred, let me sow love;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;And where there is sadness, joy.- St FrancisLet us learn to be silent so that the Lord may make use of us. In an immobile silence the vastest action isdone- The motherMan is nearest to God when he does good to others- VivekanandaOn no soul Allah place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffersevery ill that it earns- MohammedGod resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourself therefore under the mighty hand ofGod, that He may exalt you in due time.- JesusYou see many stars at night in the sky but not when the Sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are nostars in the heavens during the day? Oh man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance,say not that there is no God.- RamakrishnaParamahamsaLove your religion, so that you may practise it with greater faith; and when each one practices his religionwith faith there can be no hatred in the world, for all religions are built on universal love.who so in this world overcomes base unduly cravings, from him sorrows fall away like water drops from alotus leaf.- Lord BuddhaGod is in your heart. He is in you and you are in Him. Search for Him inside your heart. If you do notfind Him there, you will not find him anywhere else.- Swami SivanandaBe humble. The more humble the man, the larger the spirit. The larger the spirit, the shorter the shadow.- George Bernard ShawThe Divine is a wine, that would intoxicate you. It is produced by the nectar that the Name of the Lord issaturated in. Taste it and you forget everything else; you are traansformed.1. 9. 58There is in every one a spark of truth; no one can live without that spark. there is in every one a flame oflove; life becomes a dark void without it. That spark, that flame is God, for He is the source of all Truthand all Love. Man seeks Truth, he seeks to know the reality because his very nature is derived from Godwho is Truth. He seeks Love, to give it and share it, for his nature is of God and God is Love.3. 9. 58

The Lord is all Love; so he can be seen only through Love; the moon has to be seen only through its ownlight, no other light can illumine the moon. In the night of utter diluion, the Lord can be seen only by thelight that He himself is, namely, the light of pure lve. He is Truth and Eternal and so He is beyond thecategories of falsity and change.7. 2. 59God is as immanent in the Universe as life is immanent in the egg. The chicken is in every part of the egg;so too, God is in every part of the world.25. 11. 59God is the moving force in everyone. He is behind all good impulses and useful attitudes. You are allseparate beads strung together on that one thread, God. So hatred is ugly, unnatural and inhuman; it isagainst the very core of love that is in everyone.29. 9. 60If by acting your role well you develop love towards fellow-actors, that is more important than gettingdevotion for God. If you acquire peace, that is a more valuable success than acquiring spiritual wisdom.For devotion is the seed of Love and spiritual wisdom is the seed of Peace. At least, devotees shouldbehave as if they are all of one family. Take hold of the chance so luckily available for mutual cooperationin worship and Saadhana.23. 11. 60There is nothing so grand and so sublime as the Lord in whom you find refuge. Call on Him by any Nameor speak of Him as the Nameless one. It is both with Form and Formless, the ocean takes the form of thevessel which contains a part of it. When that is done, the Formless takes Form; the Absolute is reduced tothe Particular. You will find out, however, that all the joy is derived from the Form-full aspect of God; theFormless causes no joy or grief; it is beyond all duality.There is no need to exhaust yourselves in the search for the Lord; He is there like butter in milk, likethechicken in the egg, immanent in every atom of creation. He does not come from somwhere or gosomewhere else. He is there, here, everywhere. From the atom to the great, from the microcosm to themacrocosm, He is everything.The Lord will be characterised by unbounded Love and unsullied sweetness.The Lord alone is aware of the Plan, for His is the Plan! You see only a part of the play on the stage and soit is all very confused. When the entire story is unfold, then you will appreciate His plan, not until then; forthat you have to get behind the screen of Maayaa (deludung power) and contact the Director Himself.While you are an actor on the stage reciting your role, you cannot grasp the inner meaning of the entire playwhich has the ‘world’ as the stage and ‘ages’ as the duration.30. 4. 61Every country is a limb in the body of God, He is conscious of the slightest pain or sensation in the mostdistant part of creation, for that too is His body. He is Lokesha (Lord of the Universe). He is the secretspring within all activity. Have faith in this and cultivate samarasa (broadest Love), towards all.27. 2. 61The body is the temple of God, in every body, God is installed, whether the owner of the body recognises itor not. It is God that inspires you to good acts, that warns you against the bad. Listen to that voice, obeythat voice and you will not come to any harm.21. 10. 61To grasp the significance of the Omnipresence of the Lord, believe that there is no name which is not His,no body or thing which is not His.

26. 10. 61Do not make God modern to suit your fancy. He is neither ancient nor modern; His countenance neverchamges, nor His Glory. Present Him if you must in a modern manner, in a modern style, so that He mightbe understood today. If a child is reluctant to swallow a pill, insert it in a plantain and offer him the fruit;he will swallow both fruit and pill. But do not change the pill itself to suit the whims and fancies of thechild’s taste. Then the illness cannot be cured!1. 1. 64The Lord will be the guide of whoever installs Him as his Saarathi (chariotear). He will not consider thatposition inferior. he is the Sanaathana Sarathi (Eternal chariotear) come to be the chariotear of all. He isthe Lord, for all who seek a Master, a support.There are two birds sitting on one tree; the Upanishadh says: the jeevaathma and the Paramaathma - theindividual soul and the Supreme soul - on the tree of this body, this world. One bird eats the fruits of thattree, while the other simply looks on, as a witness. But, the wonder is, the two birds are really one, thoughthey appear as two; they cannot be separated, since they are two aspects of the same entity. Steam in the aircannot be seen; it has no shape or form; but it is the same as ice, which is hard, heavy and cold. Niraakaaraand Saakaara (without Form and with Form), are just two ways in which the one manifests Itself.18. 2. 64God is the life-breath of every soul. So, learn to live in His Glory, in His Memory, in His contemplation,every moment. That is what the Vedhas and Shasthras teach.16. 5. 64God gives you whatever you pray for; so take care. Ask for the right things.15. 10. 64If you deny God, it is as if you deny yourself. There is no God, you declare; but you assert that ‘I exist’Well, who is that I that existss, that exists throughout the varying stages of growth, physical and mental, injoy and grief? That ‘I’ is God; believe IT. For the ‘I’ sees with eyes, tastes with the tongue, walks with thefeet, aargues with the intelligence; but, all the while, it is conscious that it is separate from all these. Whenyou affirm ‘There is no God’, you first assert and then declare the absence of the entity.13. 12. 64God should be the bedrock on which you resolve; then, life would be smooth. The physical, the mental, theobjective world - these revolve around God, and if that close relationship with God is recognised, they leadyou into light. Like the strokes of the hammer, which lend shape and beauty to gold, Aathma gets Nameand form through the strokes of multifarious karma, from birth to birth.29. 3. 65God is impartial; He is like the termometer that cannot misinterpret, or exaggerrate or falsify. Success orfailure is your own making; you decide your destiny; the Lord has no share in deciding it.19. 4. 65To realise the Lord, you must welcome hardships, trials and sufferings. You must dwell of the Name andForm steady and with faith. You must discard all inferior sources of joy.13. 7. 65Try to be near God, as near as His own kin; do not calculate the number of hours you have spent in servingHim, and pine that He has not compensated you. Be ever in His service, that is to say, in doing good andbeing good.Strive to arrive at the stage when His Wish alone will count and you are an instrument in His Hands.

26. 9. 65The giver of the boon knows its use and its benefits. You are not to judge it, for, yours is the short termview. He knows the past, the present and the future.27. 9. 65He who is the idol is also equally found in all. Have the sense of equality feeding all your activity, but donot make all your acts equal with all, and for all.30. 9. 65The Lord is like the Lotus, unaffected by the environment where He is; that is the reason why His Eyes, HisFace, His Feet, are all compared to the Lotus. Do not discard the one Form and one Name - the Form andName you have selected - when some one’s tongue ways. Hold fast; and save yourselves.4. 10. 65Man is but an instrument in God’s hands; his plans can win through only whenthey are in line with His and,what are His plans? His Commands? They are declared in the scriptures, which are revelations of His planmade to the purified intellects of saints. They are also declared by His Avathaars, who appear in humanform so that they may speak to men in their own language to win their confidence and lead them and teachthem.4. 11. 65The Lord has declared in the Geetha that He is ‘the inner Reality of all beings! Try to be ever in theawareness of this Unity in God; this is the one truth that has to be seen, experienced and announced; this isthe soundest basis for individual and social life. This will serve as an unshakeable foundation for yourinternational outlook.23. 11. 65God is no parrtial benefactor; he gives the fruit from every tree, according to the seed. You have plantedthe sour mango, hoping to use the fruit for pickles; then, why lament that the fruit is not sweet to thetongue? Do good and aspire to get the fruit of goodness - that is pardonable. It is not as bad as doing badand blaming God that He has given you the need for evil deeds.24. 11. 65The Lord cares for the feeling behind the act, not the fanfare and the fuss.1966For everything that can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted and touched, God is the cause. Man is born as manbecause he is to realise this truth, and feed the presence of God in all beings and things.23. 5. 66God cannot be grasped by any one fully. When you dismiss an act as miracle, you are only admiting that itis beyond your ken; you use that word, because you have no other means of describing God’s behaviour ormovements or action.3. 7. 66Be an instrument in the hands of God; let Him use you for any purpose He prefess.question His will?How can anyoneThe Lord is but a witness; He is above all hate and anger, of attachment denied from mine and thine.17. 10. 66God is the nearest and dearest entity, but ignorance hides Him from the eye. The love that God bears manis unequalled; yet, He appears to man as a distant, formidable, unapproachable phenomenon. the starsappears as dots of light, for they are at a great distance from us. So too God appears insignificant or

ineffective to many, because they are keeping themselves too far from Him. If some people say there is noGod, it only means they are at too great a distance to be aware of Him.God is the indweller, and so, when He is sought in the outer world He cannot be caught. Love Him with noother thought; feel that without him nothing is worth anything; feel that He is all. Then you become Hisand He becomes yours. There is no nearer kinship than that.Nov 66God is the seat of illumination; He scatters all darkness of Ignorance.God seeks sincerity and steady faith, not outer pomp and show.23. 11. 66God has four qualities and it is only when you cultivate them that you can understand Him. They areDivine Love (Prema), Beauty (Soundarya), Sweetness (maadhurya) and Splendour (Shobha). thedevelopment of Prema is enough to add unto you the other three. When you are so full of love for thedivine in all creation, that stage is beauty; when you are immersed in the see of Universal Love you reachthe acme of sweetness; when your mind loses its identity and merges in the Universal Mind, then there issplendour indescribable.1. 1. 67God is not far from you, or aaway in some distant place. He is within you, in your own inner altar. Mansuffers because he is unable to discover Him there, and draw peace and joy from that discovery.Man must keep the Goal of God-realisation before him, while engaged in the noisy hilarious procession oflife.11. 1. 67Let His Will be done - this should be yoy guide-line.Do not exhibit anger or grief or pain. Be happy, spread happiness around you. Sweetness alone iss theoffering that God likes.9. 3. 67Nowadays you can bribe your way to success in every sphere. But God cannot be won by tricks or throughshort cuts. He can be won only by the hard way of struggle, detachment and tough discipline. Yearndesparately for Him, cling steadfastly to Him, fill your mind with His Gorm, His Majesty, His Glory andHis Grace.23. 5. 67You believe that God guards the good from harm and inflicts on the bas; that is not correct. The goodnessof the good guards them; the badness of the bad injures them. God is the witness.31. 7. 67Know Him as your strength, your breath, your intelligence, your joy - He becomes all that and more. Nomore can any faculty of yours hinder your progress. He will direct all of them towards the highest Goal;the senses, the mind, the subconscious, the unconscious, the intelligence - all. Grace will confer all youneed.July 67God is Premaswarupa; God is in every being; so, the fruit of every life is full of the sweetness of that Prema.Like the bitter skin of the fruit which is sweet inside which casts the cover of ignorance over the preciousjuice within, so too the bitter skin of envy, egoism, hate, malice, greed, lust and pomp does not allow thesweetness to be patent to all. Every being is entitled to partake of that Prema, irrespective of nationality,colour, creed or status in society.

13. 1. 68God is not to be spoken as coming down or going up, since He is everywhere, available for you becomingaware of Him, through beauty, truth, goodness, strength, love or any one of the divine attributes.26. 2. 68The Truth that there is perfect identity between the individual and universal is proclaimed at every breath bythe silent announcement your breath makes; Soham (I am He). God is the closest, the fondest, the mostreliable companion. But Man, in his blindness, ignores Him and seeks the company of others. God ispresent everywhere, at all times. He is the richest and the most powerful guardian. Yet you ignore Him.The Lord is here, near, loving, accessible and affectinate. But, many do not open their eyes to the greatopportunity.5. 3. 68God is to be recognised in all that exists, all that is charming, or suffering, blooming or drooping. He isIntelligence in the insect, Faithfulness in the dog, latent Energy in the rock!9. 3. 68See God in every one you meet; see God in everything you handle. His Mystery is immanent in all that ismaterial and non-material; as a matter of fact, it has been discovered that there is no matter or material. Itis all God, an expression of His Mystery! Derive joy from the springs of joy within you and without you;advance, do not stand still or recede. Every minute must mark a forward step.16. 5. 68Those who seek to know God must steel themselves to bear insult, injury and torture, with a smile.The universe is the body of God; He knows and feels every twitch, every pang, be it from a black man orwhite, from land or sea or air or space.17. 5. 68God is immanent in the world. So, treat the world lovingly, as you will treat your Master.4. 7. 68The same God shines in and through everyone, whatever be the creed, colour, tribe or territory. Thecurrent animates and activates all bulbs; the Divine animates and activates all. Those who see differenceare deluded; they are befogged by prejudice, egoism, hatred or malice. Love sees all as one Divine family.8. 7. 68God gives ear to the prayers that rise in all languages and even from the silence of the dumb. He has notrace of anger or worry. You too have no reason to develop anger and anxiety.If God is on your side, you have the world in your hold. This is the lesson driven home by the Hinduscriptures. Give up all bonds of right and duty, surrender unresservedly to Me; I shall guard you from sinand liberate you from that sad cycle of ‘entrances’ and ‘exists’ on the stage of life. You can remain ever inyour own Reality of Eternal calm’ the Lord has assured.19. 8. 68The Lord is closest to you, He is the mother, father, teacher, friend, guide and guardian. Call on Him andHe responds immediately. From dawn to dusk, spend every minute in His company.23. 9. 68Rise every day with the thought og God; spend every day with the Name of God; go back to bed with thethought of His Glory as enshrined in His Name.13. 1. 69

God will grant you what you need deserve; there is no need to ask, no reason to grumble. Be content.Nothing can haappen against His will.15. 5. 69God feeds, sustains, holds firm - unseen. He can be seen by those who make the effort, along the lines laiddown for the purpose, by those who have succeeded in experiencing Him. God is, as butter in milk, visiblewhen concretised by saadhana.16. 5. 69The tongue is a post; Bhajan of the Name of God is the rope; with that rope, you can bring God almightynear you and tie Him up, so that his Grace becomes yours. God is so kind that He will yield to yourprayers and get bound. You have only to call on Him, to be by your side , with you, leading you andguiding you.There are many paths to God, as there are many roads to a city or as there are many tracks up a Himaalayanpeak, by which shapas can climb to the top.3. 9. 69The Lord is above all attachments; he has no favourites or fees. You decide the distance between him andyourselves.God is not drawn into desire; He has no wants; He is full, free and ever content. He has no aversions orattractions. He has no bonds of kith or kin.God has no will or want. He does not confer or withhold. He is the eternal witness. To put it in thelanguage that you can understand, He is like the postman, who is not concerned with the contents of theletters that he hands over to the addresses; one letter might communicate victory, another, defeat; youreceive what youhave worked for. Do good and have good in return; be bad and accept the bad that comesback to you. That iss the law, and there is really no help or hindrance.26. 9. 69God is the embodiment of sweetness. Attain Him by offering Him, who resides in all, the sweetness thatHe has dowered on you. Crush the cane in the mill of seva, boil it in the cauldron of penitence; decoloriseit of all sensual itch; offer the crystallised sugar of compassionate love to Him.15. 10. 69Ddivinity is only the terminus of the journey of human life, like the ripe fruit being the terminus of thejourney from bud thriugh blossom, from blossom to the fruiting, the sour bitter fruit to the sweet juicefulripeness. grave is the sunlight which will ripen the fruit - saadhana is the sap which rises from the earth.Both are needed by the tree, in order that it may yield fruit.21. 10. 69He is in you, and it is He that has prompted you to project Him into the outer world, as this idol or thatimage, to listen to your outpouring and give you peace. Without the inspiration, solace, and joy that Heconfers from within, you will be raving mad, as one who has lost his moorings and is tossed about,rudderless or a stormy sea. Hold on to Him in the heart, hear Him whisper in the silent words of counseland consideration. Hold converse with Him, guide your footsteps as He directs, and you reach the goal,safe and soon. The picture before which you sit, the flowers which you place on it, the hymns you recite,the vows you impose on yourselves, the vigils you go through - these are activities that cleanse, that removeobstacles in the way of your getting aware of the God within.28. 10. 69There are not pots, in the clay; but, in the pots, there is clay. So also there are no characteristics in God;but, in the characteristics of Sathya, Jnaana and Aanandha, there is God. God is everywhere, but, nospaceship can hit against Him, no space pilot can espy Him. He is too subtle for all that type of contact,

subtler than ether. So, do not lend your ears too people who swear there is no God. God is too vast, toofar above the reach of reason or imagination. You can only get glimpsis of the Bliss derivable from thecontemplation of His Magnificence.6. 3. 70God is Truth, Goodness and Beauty, but only those who have had experience of Him can assert so andconvince. You may have a pot full of amirtha, but unless you place a drop on your tongue, how can youassert about its fragrance and sweetness? Through your Sai Bhakthas, a transformation has to be broughtabout in the minds of people; so your responsibility is very great.12. 5. 70The God who is the origin and the goal can be cognised only by the pure consciousness, after cleaning ofthe mind is attained. And to cleanse the consciousness, one must start early and drive slowly; then theyreach safely, not otherwise. Put the little feet on the path of God; the joy of the first steps will leed themforward.We in India see God in trees, in plants, in birds and beasts; we worship Him everywhere, in all things.People laugh at you when you worship a picture; and, some weak minded persons feel ashamed themselves,when they do so. But, we are treating the picture as God and not treating God as a picture. Worship thestone as God, not treat God as stone.The eye affected by cataract swears that there is no lamp in the room; but an operation to remove it isneeded for him to become aware of the lamp. the operation is the symbol of the spiritual discipline that onehas to undergo, in order to get the Vision of God.People have specialised in the various methods of worshiping God; There is a host of rites, ceremonies,hymns, festivals, fasts, vows, pilgimages; but, the best form of worship, the one that will bring the Grace ofGod in ample measure, is to obey the commands of God. Adulation is poor adoration! Placing God at agreat distance from you and praising Him as Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent will not please Him.Develop nearness, proximity, kinship with God. Win Him by obedience, loyalty, humility and purity.God is not involved in either rewards or punishments. He only reflects, re-sounds and re-acts! He is theEternal unaffected Witness! You decide your own fate. Do good, be good, you get good in return; be bad,do bad dees, you reep bad results. Do not thank or blame God. Thank yourself, blame yourself! He doesnot even will that creation, protection and destruction shall take place. They follow the same law, theinnate law of the maaya-ridden universe.13. 5. 70God appears in human form; He promotes pasture of cattle and agriculture, in order that the food mightsustain the Head and render it intelligent and clear enough to realise God. The body has to be nourishedfor the sake of the head, so that spiritual knowledge can be attained and liberation gained. Food - Head -God - that is the chain of events.1. 6. 70The One is known by many names; the One is pictured in many Forms. There in only One Truth. Peoplediscern one facet at a time; their vision is too limited to see it whole.The switch that operates the current is in the heart of each one. You can turn it on or off! You can denyGod and flit about blind in the darkness, hitting your head at every obstacle. Or, you can switch on andbenefit by the light. Even the heaviest burden becomes light, when His light falls on you. Darkness breadsdisease and distress; light reveals, makes aware and makes the vision clear, the faith strong and stable.9. 6. 70

Smarana, rememberance, can become established only when you are free from the shackles of spite andenvy. With no trace of pride or envy, malice or hate, egoism or conceit - that is the way to keep the heartclean for God to install Himself.Sorrow affects you because you feel you deserve joy and did not acquire it; but, there is one impartialdistributor of joy and sorrow, who gives you what you need, rather than what you desire. You may needthe tonic of tragedy to set you on the road to recovery. The Compassionate One, the Eternal All-KnowingGod, He knows best.18. 7. 70Do not bewail and say, ‘I love God but He does not reciprocates’ God resounds, reacts, reflects. He givesyou back tentimes the love you offer Him. Yearn, dedicate, surrender. Keep steady on, do not moveforward two steps today and retrace them tomorrow.The ants, poor little weak things, they move one behind the other in an unbroken stream, conscious of thegoal and of nothing else, overcoming obstacles that come in the way.19. 7. 70Every word expresses an experience; every experience is the consequence of a desire; every desire is theprogency of the impact of an object on the sensses; the objective world is the super imposition of diversityon the One; this superimposition, is maaya; maaya is owned and acknowledged as ‘mine’ by the Lord.God does not inquire whether you lived in caves or ate roots and fruits only; He seeks purity of heart,achieved by service and surrender - service to man and surrender to His Will.Ador the God that is resident in all beings, motivating them and prompting their every activity.The root, the trunk, the branch, the leaf, the flower, the bark, the fruit, have each a different texture, tastesmell, colur, use and function; but they have all arisen out of one single tiny seed! So too all this Universehas but One Primal Cause, God. Man must seekf to know the Cause, not the Effect, which is but a facet ofthe Cause.23. 7. 70There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Religion and one Reason.4. 10. 70God does not draw you near or keep you far, you near Him or keep away from Him. God has no likes ordislikes. You live according to the highest demands of your nature and you are near Him.Do not imagine that God is residing in Kaashi or Rameshwaram or Puttaparthi. Know that He is in yourown heart; evoke Him from there, invoke Him from there, and He grants you the Vision, immediately. Iam in your heart aand so, your tricks cannot mislead the God you are.When you discover that you are God, there is no offering of oneself. Wisdom wipes out all; God aloneremains.5. 10. 70Watch a tree! The roots, the trunk, the branches, the twigs, the shoots, the leaves, the flowers, the fruits alllook different in form, taste, hendress, smell; they have different use for the tree and for us. But, all thismanifold variety is produced, sustained, subsumed and served by One single SEED. And each fruitcontains the same SEED! He is the Seed, He is the Tree, He is the Fruit. Love is the Seed, Love is theTree, Love is the Fruit.7. 10. 70You say ‘Thank you’ when someone offers you a cup of coffee; how much more graceful should you be toGod, who gave you this wonder-filled world to live in and this elaborately equipped body to know it and

use it, for realising the grandour of the creator of both. Don’t you feel that the master of the house will bepleased when you give him due homage and reverence, obedience and honour? what, then, about the Masterof the Universe; the vast unfathomable firmament and the vast inscutable infinittesimal!8. 10. 70Ice and steam are but water, though they appear so different in every way; diamond is but carbon; jewels arebut gold; pots are but clay. Go into the truth and you see the One behindd the manifold! Brahman alone isthe One; all else is the superimposition of name and form upon its Sath - Chith - Aanaandha (Being -Awareness - Bliss) essence.Fill the consciousness with the thought of the One, it will get saturated in Aanandha, fill it with ideas ofmany, it will get befouled by hate and partiality, prejudice and envy. The world is the creation of yourmind; go into deep sleep; it is negated! That is why sleep is said to be a form of Samaadhi when the dhee(intellect) becomes Sama (balanced), merged in equanimity.God is your guardian, when you sleep; when you are helpless; even when you have forgotten or neglected ordiscarded Him. He has no need for the ever blissful, ever full, ever free. Do your duty to yourself - that isenough offering for Him.10. 10. 70God will never give you up, nor should you ever give up your hold on God.You may say that you will not believe in God unless you have clear experience personally about Him.Well, you believe that your date of birth is a certain month in a particular year. You have taken it on trust;you take many things on trust; it is impossible to insist on personal experience for everything which we haveto believe, if life has to run smooth. Take this also on trust for, many sages, Saints, scientists, haveaccepted it and experienced it.God is subtler than ether, filling the smallest crevice with His Majesty.manifestations, wherever you meet them.Know this and serve HisLove God and no distraction can turn you from the thought of God.You need not rely on another for success in dhyana and japa and await contact with some sage in order toget from him a manthra for recitation. Pray to the God within you and you will receive the neededguidance.29. 10. 70You can hold fast to God, either through Jnaana, Bhakthi or Karma maarga (paths of knowledge, worship orworl). You may travel first or second or third class in the train the destination is the same; for all jnaanaproceeds on the assumption that God is immanent and transcendent.Do your duty; leave the rest to God. A disc with seven colours of the rainbow, when rotated quickly givesnot the band of vibgyor, but a band of white! So too, the three colours, Jnaana, Bhakthi and Karma aredifferent only when the white light of God is passed through the prism of human reason and mind. Activatethem in deed, they are but parts of one ray.Nov 70Have faith in God; He sees everything;, He is everywhere; He is all - powerful. When queen Dhroupadhiwas dragged into the open court by the wicked cousins of her consorts, and they threatened to insult anddishonour her, she did not call on human lords - Dharmaraja the great master and practitioner of Dharma,Bheema the redoubtable warrior, Arjuna the unexcelled bowman, Sahadeva the knower of everyone’sfuture, Nakula the embodiment of bravery - she sought succour and prayed to Krishna, the Lord andprotector of righteousness, God who listens to the agony of the heart.18. 12. 70

The I which you feel you are, the I that you were, when you were a baby, a boy, a young man, a middleaged man, an old man and a decrepit senile individual that I is but a reflection of God in this Body-Mirror!you are but a wave on the breast of the ocean, namely, God. Know this, experience this - that is theconsummation, the goal!25. 12. 70God is omnipresent; He is in the past, the present, the future. I am placing this garland on my finger. See,the part of the garland to the left of the finger is the future, the part to the right is the past and where itcontacts the finger, that point is the present. Now, I roll the garland on the finger and pull it to the right.The future comes up and becomes the present and moves down into the past, but the present is alwayspresent. god is always present, watching the future rolling on into the past!There is only One God and He is omnipresent! There is only One Religion, the religion of Love. there isonly One Language, the language of the Heart! This God has to be visualised by means of constant spiritualdiscipline.Do not involve yourselves in doubts and hesitations. If only you observe the disciplines and purify theConsciousness, you can see the God installed in your heart.There is sugar in the cup, but the water is insipid, for you have not stirred it well. There is God in theworld, and by stirring the Divine well into every drop or atom thereof, you can make the world a sweetthing to live by. Intelligence is the spoon, saadhana is the process of stirring. Saturate every moment oflife with God; it becomes sweet thereby.God is reflected in the medium of Nature, in everything His image is to be cognised. If the medium isSaathwick (pure), then, God is as divine in the image as in His own Divine state; if it is reflected in theRaajasik (the active passionate) medium, the image becomes the individual Jeevi; when the thaamasik (thedull) medium reflects it, then, the image is ‘matter’. The ‘Moon’ is One; and it is so distant and unaffected;but, its reflections in various pots of water differ in brightness and steadiness, according to the clarity andcalmness of the water.3. 73God is present where only good pervades and prevails. If you examine the present behaviour of men, youwill find that the vision is bad, listening is bad, thoughts are impure, and so, even the human nature in you isbeing besmirched and made bestial if not worse - when God enters the vision, the the things listened to, andthe subjects thought of, your lives will be rendered happy and useful.22. 3. 73Ishaavashyan idham Ssarvam - ‘All this is enveloped in God’. Everything and every being are but waveson the surface of the vast unbounded timeless ocean, which is God. Waves belog to the ocean and dependon it for their individual existence, but, the ocean has no need of waves.Your thoughts, words and deeds will shape others, and theirs will shape you. It is your duty to be good, dogood, and see good. That is the way to make the world good, and be yourslef good.30. 3. 73The mystery of splendour of God can be grasped only by a pure mind and a clear vision. That is why theLord granted a new eye to Arjuna in order that he might not be confounded by His Glory.Water flows from a higher level to the lower levelss. God’s Grace too is like that. It flows down to thosewho are bent with humility. So, give up the ego, overcome jealousy, and cultivate love.4. 73God is in you. God is in every word of yours, every deed and though. Speak, do and think as befits Him.Do the duty that He has allotted to the best of your ability, and to the satisfaction of your conscience.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He canreward it with tons of Grace.15. 11. 73As butter is inherent in milk, God is immanent in the Universe. When it is churned, the butter separatesitself and becomes cognisable. So too, by means of love and the discipline of the recitation of the name,God can be concretised.23. 11. 73True love directed towards God can reveal His reality, and grant the highest Jnaana (Supreme wisdom).Once you accept God as the core of the Universe and yourself, have that faith strong and steady.21. 2. 74It is only when God is the Goal and Guide, that there can be real peace, love and truth. The Divine must berevered at all times; what pleases the Divine must be understood ad followed.9. 3. 74When you spend your hours in thoughts about God, you are also free from evil ways. You will not betempted to abuse others or harm them in any way. Yuo live in Love, accepting all the events of life as HisGifts.20. 5. 74The Universe is the body of God; every particle in it is filled with God, His Glory, His Might, HisInscrutability. Believe that God is the inner Truth in every thing and being. He is Truth, He is Wisdom,He is Eternal. Be humble, before the evidences of His Power and Majesty.30. 5. 74Godhead is a spotless clean mirror; you see in It your own reflection. When you have soft harmlesspropensities, the reflection will be tender and soft. Do not lay the blame on Godhead, as you are prone todo. When everything goes right, you say that God has come close to you; when something goes wrong,you say that God has deserted you and gone afar! He does not move far or near. The distance from Him toyou is as much as the distance from you to Him. He is everywhere. He always is, in your heart.Recognise Him there; realise Him as closest and nearest to you. He is your own self, neither terrible nortender, but simply IS.10. 6. 74God is bound to you by the closest bonds of Love. Parents might fall out; brother might take up armsagainst brother; sister might slip away without recognising sister; children might not revere or evenrecognise their parents. Those are but ‘social or economic ties’, they might declare. But, God will neverdesert you or deny you, or turn away from you.God is the nearest, the dearest, the most loving, the most eager companion, comrade and kinsman for man.This is demonstrated fully in the acts of Krishna, as related in the Mahabharath and Bhaagavatha.Walk steadily and silently towards the goal, merging with God.7. 74Three discipline are essential to become aware of Divinity in all and in the Avatar. No activity should betaken up with individual aggrandizement in view; intellect and emotions must be directed to the revelationof the Resident in the Heart, Aathma; every act should be done sincerely, with love, with no yearning foracquiring personal profit, fame or benefit. Above all, listen to the Voice of God within. As soon as onecontemplates a wrong act, that Voice warns, protests, and advises giving up, It pictures the shame that hasto be suffered, the punishment that has to be faced, the disgrace that it entails. It would appearas if there

are two personalitieinside you, the one that prompts and the one that prevents. The warning signal, thetimely advice,is given by the Jangam ( the spirit of right) in the Anjam (the physical body) . . . .Scatter the dark clouds of ignorance and egoism that cover the face of the Sun shinning in the sky of yourheart. Yuor parents might disown you, your business might desert you. Yuor friends might give you up;your treasure possessions might be lost. But, God will be ever near, ever dear, ever ready with counsel andcourage. People will gatter around you so long as you have pelf and power; you will be left severely alone,when you lose these. They are like swarms of frogs that infests a full lake, croaking flattery, but,disappearing, when the lake is dry.16. 10. 74God is the resident in every heart; so, serve any one, that service reaches the God within him, it brings onyou the Grace of God.24. 11. 74Water drowns man; water also helps him to swim. It draws in and it buoys up both. Only, man has tolearn the process by which he can keep afloat. In the same way, name and form which appear to belimitations and handicaps can serve as instruments and helps to transcend Name - Form and realise God.6. 1. 75God is love and can be reached and realised through love. God is truth and can be reached and realisedthrough truth. But, are you concentrating on the development of love and truth?1. 4. 75God cannot be identified with one Name and one Form. He is all Names and all Forms. All Names areHis; all forms are His. Your Name too are His, you are His Forms. You appear as separate individualbodies because the eye that see them seeks only bodies, the outer encasement. When you clarify ansdsanctify your vision and look at them through the Aathmic eye, the eye that penetrates behind the physical ,then, you will see others as waves on the ocean of the Absolute, as the ‘thousand heads, the thousand eyes,thousand feet’ of the Virant Purusha (Supreme Sovereign person) sung in the Rigvedha. Strive to win thatVision and to saturate yourself with that Bliss.4. 4. 75When you win the Love of God, His compassion will flow unto you. Love gives and forgives. Ego getsand forgets.10. 4. 75God is everywhere and in everyone. The whole universe is inhabited by Him. One should find God inevery object. These are the ideals we find in our scriptures.23. 7. 75Fullness is the quality of the Divine, it is found in part or portion or in half or whole. Quantity is not thecriterion; quality is. In the visible world that has been taken from the substance of the Divine, this qualityis found equally full.We shall not consider the world as anything less than God.God is very much in the world, in and through everything in it, with no exception.There are four stages in securing the Grace of the Lord, by this means:1) Attaching the mind to God2) Loving the Form of God to which the mind has been attached3) Installing that Form in the heart and4) Dedicating all that one has and does to the Form so installed.

The Universe is the field where God sports. Be aware of this fact, every moment of conciousness, andthere is nothing more you need for a happy existence. For, you will then contact God in every thingthrough every thought at every place and at every moment. His Leela is evident in the smallest flower andthe most distant star. The joy that you can derive from the contemplation of these proofs of providence isindescribable.1. 8. 76Wealth cannot yield joyous contentment. Divinity alone can confer that. Yearn for God, and joy andpeace will be added unto you. Embodiment of the Divine Aathman ! when you pursue these elevatingideals, you will come up against many obstacles which others place in your path. So you must be ever alertand vigilant not to taken in by their specious pleas.14. 11. 76Believe that God is everywhere at all times, and derive strength, comfort and joy by siging His Glory in HisPresence. Let melody and harmony surge up from your hearts and let all take delight in the Love that youexpress through that song.23. 11. 76Why does the Divine attract? It is to deceive or mislead? No. It is to transform, reconstruct, reform - aprocess called samskaara. What is the purpose of the reconstruction? To mmake the person usefulandserviceable for society, to efface his ego, and to affirm in him the unity of all beings in God. The personwho has undergone samskaara becomes a humble servantt of those who need help. This is the stage ofparopakaara. Service of this kind done with reverence and selflessness prepares man to realise the One thatprevades the many. The last stage is Saakshaathkaara.6. 3. 77Do not misled by the belief of the existence of two entities; this world and the next, here and hereafter.Realise the hereafter here; this world is intewoven with the next. There is no fault in the disparity betweenthe secular and the spiritual, the godly and the materialistic, the heavenly and the earthly. In all the worlds,it is His command that runs. Not even a blade of grass can quiver without His wll guiding the wind andagitating its position. The bulb of life is illmined by the current comming from the eternal, universal powerhouse, Kaivalya, working according to His Laws and drawn through the cable of Love.30. 7. 77In every deed or act, God is present as the Invisible Motivator; in every minute thing that you handle ormanipulated, God is present as the Inner Core. So always try to elevate yourselves by doing good,speaking good, seeking good, and having the good of others in mind.7. 3. 78You may worship a picture as God, but you should not posit God as a picture. Wood, stone or mud may beassumed to be Divine, but Divinity should not be limited to wood, stone or mud11. 10. 78God is One and is Omnipresent25. 1. 79No one can predict what calamity will overtake one and at what time. Everything depends on the will ofProvidence; it all happens according to the Divine Plan.6. 2. 79The Omnipresent is not absent in the icon or the picture. We do not reduce God and shut Him up in a stoneimage; we affirm and realise that He is in the icon also. We raise the image to the dimensions of theabsolute; we expand the picture far beyond its frame and through the processes of sadhana we becomeaware that the picture, too, can be made a tool for the mind to escape from its limitations.

The Divine was regarded as the primary seed of the diversified Universe. The seed requires husk for it togrow. The husk is the cover and inside is the seed. Similarly, for the seed, which is God, the husk is theUniverse. Without the seed, the husk cannot exist.9. 7. 79Maaya is like a mirror. The mirror reflects within itself all that is before it. The convexity or concavity ofthe mirror, on the covering of dust that might have settled on it, will certainly blur the reflected image, but itcannot distort the objects themselves. Ishwara, prakrithi and jeeva (the Almighty God, objective world andindividualised self) all three are images of Paramaathman (Supreme Soul ) reflected in the mirror of maayaand warped by the gunas (qualities) that tarnish the surfaceof the mirror. It is the mirror that pictures theOne as many. But the One is ever One.14. 8. 79Repeat the name, Krishna, in your mind, every moment of your life. You will find It sweeter than sugar orhoney; indeed, It will taste more delicious than ambrosia.4. 9. 79We pay money to the department which supplies water, knowing fully well that it is not responsible for thecreation of the water. But what charges are we paying to the Creator of water? Nothing. Yet we wish toget His Grace. How is it possible to get His Grace without giving tax? The tax which the Lord expects isdevotion and purity of heart.27. 9. 79God or the Supreme Self or Paramaathman, is praised by man when his desires are fulfilled. When theyare not realised, God is blamed. But God has no prejudice or partiality.God is a witness of the act - consequence chain. You can avoid the consequence by dedicating the act toGod and abstaining from attachment. Only you have to be sincere in your surrender and in yourdetachment. For this you have to cleanse your heart and feelings through japa, smarana and dhyaana(recitation of God’s Names, remembering God, and meditations on God). Without a pure heart andvirtuous life, even though you may recite the Vedhas during the yajna you will benefit little from that.23. 11. 80The Universe is the manifestation of God. In every human being exxists Divvinity, subtle and invisible.Association with good people and saadhana (spiritual discipline) are essential for discovering the Divinitythat is latent in the individual. The real purpose of human life will be achieved only when all our time andall our efforts are concentrated on realising the Divinity that is inherent in us. This realisation is possiblefor every human being.24. 11. 80God is Eternal Power, Omnipotent, Omniscient. He is the cause and consequence, the potter, the clay andthe pot. Without God, there can be no Universe. He willed and the Universe happened. It is His paly,the manifestation of His power. Man embodies His will, His power, His Wisdom. But, he is unaware ofthis glory. The cloud of ignorance veils the truth. God sends sages, saints and prophets to unveil theTruth and Himself appears as an Avatar to awaken and liberate him.God, out of His infinite Grace, assumes the Form that the devotee yearns for. He iss purity. He is theSupreme Wisdom, He is ever - free, ever merciful.Develop the awareness of God, see Him and serve Him, in every living being.

God alone is the Guru, others can at best be teachers, instructors. The Guru out of His infinite compassionand Wisdom counsels the most beneficient path. The pupil out of his infinite devotion, follows it andattains the goal.1. 3. 81It would be a total waste of this human existence if one does not make any effort to find out the nature ofthe Creator. To recognise the Creator, there are certain criteria. There are three types of evidencedetermining the existence of a thing. The first is prathyaksha (direct perception), the second is anumaana(inference), the third is sabdha (the authority of revealed scriptures).17. 7. 81God is the sea Recognise this truth; as the bubble cannot be conceived without positing water, the Cosmos,this world, cannot be conceived as without God. Of course wave rise and fall, advance and recede, but thesea has no such agitations. The mevements of the waves do not affect the sea. As a consequence ofhuman activities, man has ups and downs in life, growth and decay. But the God in him is not affected atall.A silver cup is all silver; it is silver with an identifiable name and form. The Cosmos has a name and form;God because the Cosmos; God is love and so the Cosmos is Love. From the silver cup, you can neverseparate the silver as a distinct entity. So too god cannot be distinct from Creation. Nothing is means orlow, ugly or disgusting; every thing is adorable. To get fixed in this universal God - consciousness, one hasto tame one’s impulses and educate ones desires.2. 10. 81We assert that we have minds but have we ever been able to see it in us? Has joy or bliss any form? Theyare experience - based not sense-based. God is not seen with these eyes but the vision is possible if one canearn the eye of jnaana, of clarified and purified knowledge. When you desire to see the Aathma in you,you look into the mirror. You cannot see your image, without a mirror to reflect you. How, then can yousee your Reality without Reflection through knowledge?Divinity is omnipresent. It can be cognised only by transforming onself through Holy Prema (Love).Love encompasses; it does not exclude. The Omnipresent God has, according to the Vedhic hymn, ‘athousand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet’. This is to say, that the effulgent Cosmic Person, God,the Vishwa Viraat, is the individual multiplied by infinity. The individual mind multiplied by infinity.The individual mind multiplied by infinity becomes the Cosmic Mind. Hiranyagarbha, the UniversalConsciousness. Love expands the one into Infinity ‘I’ merges in ‘they’ and ‘we’, friend and foes, knownand unknown, of all races, creeds and lands, and all become ONE, the Vishwa Viraat.7. 10. 81The five elements abide in Narayana, God. There can be no seed without a shell or husk. the husk is theCosmos; the seed is God. They are both interelated, and abide together. One must try to understand thisfact through steadfast inquiry, jnaana.Speach and song are not enough to cure the dire ddesiease of recurrent birth and death. God has to beplanted firmly in the mind, the Omnipresent God has to be enshrined in the heart; God has to flow with theblood in the veins. God has to be visualised through the inner eye.The Divine is the Omnipresent ONE. It is the minute in the minutest, it is the vast in the vastest. TheAathma that is not born, that does not die, that cannot be killed, that is the Universal, Eternal, Witness, theBrahman itself.21. 11. 81The Cosmos has only One Master, God, the All - comprehensive Supreme Consciousness, Chaithanya. Itenergises and operates the Cosmos, the Vishwa. It impels all the activities of Man. Man is but aninstrument which the Chaithanya wields. God is not limited by time, space or circumstance. But, the

physical body, the mind, the intellect the senses and their longings are moulded and modified by time, spaceand circumstance. Without believing in this fundamental fact man falsely imagines , ‘I am doing this’, ‘Iam planing this’. It is the Supreme All - pervasive Consciousness that unfolds the skills, motivates thesenses and operates the intellect.22. 1. 82The Cosmos is activated by one single Chaithanya (consciousness). It is the Director. Man has only a roleto play. That intelligence, the omniwill, urges all men to play roles decided on by it, and to think and workas it directs.23. 1. 82God is present in you and is viewing with thousands of eyes what you do. Even if no one is seeing, God isalways watching your actions. Do everything with this awareness.12. 8. 82Unadulterated devotion, total renunciation - these alone can help us to achieve the awareness of ourDivinity.21. 10. 82Man has in his stomach the latent Fire that digests food. God resides in man as this Fire. ‘AhamVaishwaanara Bhoothwa Praamnam Deham Aashrithah’, says Krishna. Having become the VaishwaanaraFire, I enter the body of living beings. So, it is God that keeps all the limbs trim and makes keenness andknowledge possible. The latent Fire causes eight functions. It hardens and strengthens the muscles. Itdevelops energy. It ensures healthy progency. It makes one patient and therefore a better instrument. Itincreases the duration of life. It sharpens and deepens memory. It confers boldness of thought and action.Offer love and receive love. Give and take. But, the educational system today lays stress only on taking, aone-way traffic! Giving is taboo, totally absent. As a result, when you do not look at God, God too doesnot look at you. When you look towards Me, your form appears in My eye and My form appears in youreye at the same time. if you do not look towards Me, your form cannot appear in Mine. One-way trafficwill not help.22. 10. 82In the realisation of the divine, there are four stages - Saalokyam (seeing the divine) Saaruupyam (enjoyingthe form of the divine), Saameepyam (nearness to the divine) and Saayuyyam (merging in the divine).When one reaches the stage of nearness, the stage of merging is not far off.Just as Ganga, when it reaches the sea, will not turn back, similarly one who has experienced nearness toGod will not turn back.27. 10. 82Water quenches thirst and also drowns people. Fire gives light and warmth but also burns and reducesthings to ash. Sound terrifies and also thrills. They are all three Divine, Divinity is inscrutable. TheDivine will is ever free and fresh. The Divine has no selfishness or proide or greed or envy. But, yousuffer from all these illnesses. So, your judgement is narrow and crooked. The Divine can function as Itpleases and wills, for, It has no wants.Every object maintains its inner genuineness. When it does not, it degenerates. When fire loses itscapacity to burn, it reduces itself to cold coal. Sugar can no longer be sugar if it losses its sweetness. Godis identified with heat in fire and sweetness in sugar. You may deny God or affirm God - that is dependenton your predominant mood. But, god is in all. God is all. You may accept or reject but Ddivinity willadopt any means it wills in order to revive reverence for scriptures and observance of morality. Youcannot gain by discussing about the means and pronouncing your opinions on them. You have only tocultivate Faith and exult.

One moment you declare ‘God is One. God is Truth, Purity, Stability, All-knowing, the Witness, BeyondFeelings and Thoughts, Devoid of the Three Gunas’, and the next moment you impose feelings and faultson the same God! How, then, can you understand the acts of God?We must welcome them gratefully and gladly, for whatever is done, or whatever is not done, is for theworld’s good.God is inherent in every living being, in every non-living thing. No distinction can be posited, for all areGod. In order to grant joy or enable man to derive joy, God plays pranks, designs and directs dramas. Hecauses tears and quenches tears; he cures madness and inflicts madness. He exorcises the mania for fameand fortune; He inflames the mania for God and Grace.23. 11. 82Be ready to offer all your capabilities and skills to the Lord of All. It is God’s love that rewards you whenyou engage yourselves in japa, thapa or yaaga (repetition of God’s name, penance, ritual of sacrifice) Whatgreater achievement can you strive for than receiving Love Divine from God?Have faith in the Divine and one can experience the Divine. Have faith in oneself and one can have faith inthe Divine.25. 12. 82In the Bible, it is said that God seeks His own. Ponder over this. God is every where at all times. Heneed not be sought anywhere, any time. But, God has to seek those who seek Him and struggle to becomeaware of Him. Whom does God seek? He looks for a sincere, genuine, selfless, steady devotee. Besides,He seeks an ideal son who can be held before mankind as an example and an inspiration. Such personshave become extremely rare nowadays. They style themselves devotees but they weep and wail, when theyought to be really exulting; they exult when they have every reason to weep and wail! So the Lord says,I am searching, still searching,I searched in the past, I search, and search now,For the man knowing and observing his Dharmatme.30. 12. 82Creation is another name for the projection of the Divine Will. Man’s main purpose in life is to exemplifyand stand witness to this Will. What the Divine Will has endowed us with has to be devoted and dedicatedto the same Will. Whatever you do, do as an offering to Him; then, it will reach Him for certain.At the present time, people hanker after quick material profits and not after Divine Grace and simple sincerelives. If God resides at one place or can be discovered at one spot, He can be realised and reached. But,He is everywhere at the same time. So, instead of man seeking God, What is happening is God is seekingman, who are ready to reach Him and renounce their egoistic impulses in order to do His Will.13. 1. 84All the capacities given by God should be used in the service of the Divine. There is no need to go in questof God. God is all the times searching for the genuine and steadfast devotee. The sadhaka is approachingGod for the fulfilment of his desires. He is after petty and transient benefits. He does not seek tounderstand the nature of true love or the divinity that underlies everything. Today’s sadhaka proveshimself to be a self-deluded being with no moral commitment.29. 2. 84God appears to each one in the Form and the magnitude of glory which he can contain. The feeling ofseparation form God, the source and sustenance is a laudable quality. Nursing it and fostering it can helpto consecrate one’s heart. Do not allow the mind to dwell on the faults and vices of tohers; it will becontaminated thereby. Fix it on the fairness and virtues of others; it will be sanctified thereby.13. 7. 84

He alone is the Guru who imparts that Higher Knowledge by knowing which all that needs to be known canbe known and without which all else is useless.According to the Indian seers, the source of the food one consumes, the power that sustains all living thingsand the basis of all objects in creation is God. It is because this basic truth has been forgotten that theworld today is bedevilled by fanures, conflicts, wars and commotion.6. 9. 84If you wish to experience God, you have to fill yoursleves with love. Through love alone can youexperience the embodiment of love that is God.12. 9. 84It is only when we purify our heart that God will be able to enter it.1. 10. 84Existence, effulgence and bliss (Asthi; Bhaata; Priyam) are the characteristics of the Divine. They, in fact,are the Divine itself. They are the bases of everything in the universe. When they are associated withname and form, they acquire a five fold character. Hence all things in creation are known as Pancheke(objects with five attributes. ) The world is described are Prapanche because it makes known these fiveattributes in creation. For the evolution of the corners, the five elements (the pancheshika) ether, air, fire,water and earth are needed. The sheeths have to be sustained by the five initial airs (panche pranas). Thefive vital airs are contained in the Avatar. They are Prana, Apaana, Vyaana, Udaana and Samaana.These five vital airs arise from the One that is their source. They originate by the Wall of the Omni-Self(Chaitanya).There is nothing in the universe without this Divine principle (Chaitanya). From the minutest particle inits most subtle form to the vastest in its amplitude, the Divine pervades the universe.The Cosmos has no duality. Divinity is the union of Prabrita and Parametma. The Divine manifests inman as an individual entity. We must recognise the Infinite in the individual. The individual multipliedby infinity is God. God must be seen in the infinity of the Cosmos - in the omnipresence of the Divine.23. 11. 84You have no need to run about in search of God, for, you are yourself God. God resides in your heart.‘All this is enveloped by God’. ‘All this is God’, ‘All beings are God’. He is the All-pervasive motiveforce. Have firm faith in this fact. Like fire in the match stick, divinity is latent in man. The fire in thestick becomes manifest when it is struck against the side of the box. So too, when the Jeevi contactsDeva(God), the flame of Jnana sheds the Light of Wisdom.25. 12. 84God’s love is boundless and universal, unlike human love, which is narrow and selfish. Swami’s love is‘beyond reason’. It is unlimited and unchanging. I am promoting love all around through my love.Those of you who have been nourished by this love should not deprive yourselves of its beneficence. I donot seek anything. I impose no hardships on anyone. In such a situation, if you understand the real natureof Swami’s love and utilise that love to transform yourselves into embodiments of love, you will be settingan example to the world.17. 2. 85Light has value only when there is darkness, otherwise it has no value by itself. Therefore, in times oftrouble and sorrow. Whenever problems arise, evoke the principle of Divinity, which will shedillumination and light in moments of darkness.22. 3. 85The truth that the scriptures teach is that God is everywhere, near and far, above and below, inside andoutside. God is one, indivisible, omnipresent.

13. 5. 85Know that nothing can exist or happen without being willed by God. Egoism and envy are blinding menfrom this Truth. Bhakthi is defined as the awareness of the Lord being one’s Reality. The ego preventsthe awareness of this fact. Unlike the time allotted to you in attempts to acquire the awareness and live inthat ecstasy.20. 5. 85The scientists conducted numerous experiments and came to the conclusion that there is a unique power,without calling it God. People can call it by any name. But the substance cannot be altered. There iswater in this tumbler. That water is given different names in different languages. The names vary but thewater remains the same. Likewise, different people adore the Divine under different names and forms.But one thing is common to all of them. God exists. There is only one God. He may be worshipped indifferent names and forms.2. 7. 85Man is consumed by time; God is the master of time. So, take refuge in God. Let God be your Guru, yourpath, your Lord. Adore Him, obey His commands, offer Him your grateful homage, hold Him fast in yourmemory. This is the easiest way to realise Him as your own reality. This is the one and only way.20. 5. 85Love has not form, but the mother who shows love has a form. Fragrance has no form but the flower whichexudes it has a form, but there is a form for the Divinity that confers bliss. What is that form? It is a formbeyond comprehension by the senses. It may be associated with anything.Avi has no form but you can experience its presence. When does air acquire a form. When a football or aballoon is filled with air, it acquires their form. Water assumes the form of the container. Like wise,whatever the form in which the devotee worships the Divine, God appears in that form. What is the reasonfor this? The feelings of the devotee endow the form for the Divine. Meditation is the means by which theform is experiences. Whatever the feeling which the devotee cherishes, God assumes that form.The Lord appears in the form that you envisage. Divinity cannot be defined in this way or that. That iswhy it is said that God has a myriad feet, a myriad eyes, a myriad heads and He encompasses everything inthe cosmos. He is omnipresent.Without God there is no universe. It is essential to enquire into the nature of God to strengthen one’s faith.For instance, when you examine a piece of cloth you find that it is amde up of threads, which are made outof cotton. Cotton is the basis. Threads and cloth are changes in form.7. 7. 85There are four stages in the journey to God: Saalokya, Saamipya, Saarupya and Saayujya. Now you haveentered the first stage of Saalokya, which is coming into the Divine Presence. You should progressforward to Saamipya, which means coming nearer; then move on to Saarupya, where you shine with thevery from and splendour of Divinity. Finally, you enter the stage of Saayujya, complete mergence, wherethe bubble bursts and find itself to be the sea. Service will give you the opportunity to progress along thesesteps and come nearer to Swami!11. 7. 85Multiplicity is how the One God when It assumes Name and Form. Then It becomes the Jagath, the Flux,the Cosmos, the Universe. God was alone before the Cosmos appeared. He projects, He protects, Hedissolves and draws it into Himself. This is the Truth.23. 11. 85God is the sole sustainer of human life - the basis, the structure, the consummation. Money cannot helphim to cultivate godliness and merge in God, the source. Scholarship too is equally powerless. The

Upanishad proclaims that release from death can be achieved, neither through entanglement in works, northrough one’s progency, nor through the accumulation of riches. It can be gained only through Thyaga. Itis a pity that this warning is not heeded and man is engaged in mere grabbing and grasping. As a result hesuffers from more and more bonds that get tighter and tighter.7. 3. 86God, the Universal Watcher, is witnessing and weighing your ever thought, word and deed. The God inyou examines and judges and you are able to acquire self-satisfaction through sincerity and serenity.Prove your humanness by the practice of the values which are the unique qualities of man.8. 3. 86Every seed is covered by husk. It is only when the grain and the husk are together that the seed cangerminate. Likewise, in the cosmos, the inner grain is God, the outer husk is Nature (Prakriti). Thecosmos demonstrates the unity of God and Nature. Nature is dependant on God and God is the basis forNature. Likewise, when we seek refuge in God. He provides the protecting cover for us. Dependenceand protection together constitute Divinity at work.The Cosmos is not apart from God. It is one with God. The scientists are saying the same thing in theirown language when they say matter is energy and energy is matter. The relationship between matter andenergy indicated the Nature - God relationship. Energy is, in fact, one of the names of God; Prakriti isanother name.21. 7. 86The Divine is present in everyone. Holding firmly to this belief, one should not cause harm to anyonebecause he would be causing harm to God who is present in every one.27. 8. 86God is the embodiment of Love. Man who is an image of the Divine, should have love as his basicquality. Why, then, is man infected with such qualities like hatred, envy, pride and self-conceit ? Thereason is man's heart gets polluted by his love being turned towards external objects. The image cannot beimprinted on a heart that is impure. It is only when man realises the omnipresence and omniscience ofGod that he can comprehend the nature of Divinity. Only then will he recognise the Divinity within him.21. 9. 87The primary requisite for realising God is pure and intense love.The Divine is totally free from likes or dislikes. All that the Divine (as avatar) thinks, speaks or does isentirely for the well being of the world and for giving joy to mankind. The ways of the Divine have to beunderstood properly. Sometimes people may feel that swami is angry and harsh. This is totally wrong,swami appears to keep a foot from some persons. When He feels that they are pursuing wrong pathswhich may adversely affect their future. This is intended solely do correct the erring devotees. Notrealising this, people subject themselves to various worries and doubt.Only a clean mirror can reflect the correct image. If the mirror is not clean, the reflection will be likewisesimilarly to experience the Divine a pure heart is necessary whether it is bajan or anyother act, should bedone with a pure mind and with complete concentration.24. 9. 87One must be prepared to make any offering to God, including one's life itselfGod is Love; God is Peace;God is strength.11. 10. 86Clay is one, but pots are varied. Gold is one, ornaments are many. Milk is white, though cows may bedifferent colours. The Omni-Self is one; but It assumes innumerable bodies. The Divine is one, who is

hidden in all selves. He is the embodiment of Truth, His glory is infinite. Though Truth is one, it isexperienced in many forms.Technology is employed to raise to the surface water from subteranean sources. This only means thatwater which is already there is being taken out and not newly created. Nor can man destroy the basic stuffof matter. Maan is incapable of either creating or destroying the primary material. It is only when onerealises this truth that he can understand the subtle omnipresent nature of the Divine.Although the power of the Divine has been always present in its subtle but all pervasive form, only thespiritually minded aspirants could experience it ascording to the intensity of their efforts.23. 11. 86The Lord of the Universe is the Lord enshrined in your heart.ecstasy, the heart will be Vaikunta itself.If you play on your heart-strings withWhatever the name or form in which you worship the Lord, He will respond. He is the provider ofeverything, who fulfils every wish. Whether the devotee is one in distress or craving for some object, or aseeker or a Jneni, God responds according to the measure of his devotion.19. 11. 87You must show your gratitude to God by your actions, not your words.It is not easy to understand the nature of the Divine. Because the Divine is omnipresent, He can undertakeany kind of activity. No one is competent to ask whether God can do those or that, whether He can workthrough one agency or another. There is nothing that is beyond His powers. He can make one weep, Hecan avert one's tears. He can turn a hedonist into a yogi + a yogi into a hedonist. He can drive awaymadness or cause madness. He can create, He can protect, He can punish, He can destroy. Only theDivine knows what to do, when, how and in what circumstances, with regard to any particular individual.No one has the authority to tell the Divine how He should act.Good deeds with a person according to his past actions and according to the requirements of the prevailingsituation.The cosmos is the embodiment of the Divine. Differences arise when anyone acts out of self notice. Butthe Divine has no self interests at all. Hence whatever He does is only for the good of others. Every actof His is holy. It is Dharma (righteousness)it is the truth.Without earning the grace of that Lord, all other acquisitions are of no value.Worship in the mind! Give me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with theperfume of virtue and innocence and washed in the tears of repentance! Install God in your heart and offerHim the fruits of your actions and the flowers of your inner thoughts and feelings.Worship the Lord as the resident of your heart.You must show your gratitude to God by your actions, not your words.Man should endeavour to acquire spiritual wealth which is enduring and everlasting. This wealth has to begot by loving God and earning His grace and love.There is nothing in the world nearer to one than the Divine.There is only one God and He is omnipresent.Think of Him as not different from you, and then you achieve identity of Self with God.

Those attached to God, aspiring for God, aware of God, adoring God have certain distinct marks by whichthey can be identified. Such people have a compassionate heart.Though God may be worshipped in various forms, it is essential to recognise the Unity that subsumes all ofthem. Worship may assume any form, but worship itself is one and the same. Likewise the forms of theDivine may be varied but the Divine Principle is only one Atma.To realise God one has to develop Love, adhere to Truth and experience Peace within oneself.To secure the grace of God one must adhere to right-conduct and observe purity in thought, word and deed.Turn the mind towards God; that will keep it strong and sweet.We have to believe constantly that God is resident in our heart. There is no separation between you andyour God.Whatever happens to man, good or bad, is the result of his own deeds. God is a witness.The cosmos is the embodiment of the Divine. Differences arise when anyone acts out of selfish motives.But the Divine has no self-interest at all. Hence whatever He does is only for the good of other. Every actof His is holy. It is Dharma. It is Truth.The Divine is a wine that would intoxicate you. It is produced by the nectar that the name of the Lord issaturated in. Taste it and you forget everything else; you are transformed.The heart full of compassion is the altar of God.The human body is like a chariot and the Atma is the charioteer. The bodies may have separate forms andnames. But the Atma is one and the same. It is essential to recognise the unity that underlies the apparentdiversity. For instance, hunger is common to all, though the kind of food through which it is appeased mayvary from an emperor to a beggar. Likewise, joy and grief, birth and death are common to all. The Atmais common to everyone. Recognising this oneness, they should engage themselves in service to all.There is nothing in the world nearer to one than the Divine.There is only one God and He is omnipresent.Think of Him as not different from you, and then you achieve identity of Self with God.Those attached to God, aspiring for God, aware of God, adoring God have certain distinct marks by whichthey can be identified. Such people have a compassionate heart.Though God may be worshipped in various forms, it is essential to recognise the Unity that subsumes all ofthem. Worship may assume any form, but worship itself is one and the same. Likewise the forms of theDivine may be varied but the Divine Principle is only one Atma.To realise God one has to develop Love, adhere to Truth and experience Peace within oneself.To secure the grace of God one must adhere to right-conduct and observe purity in thought, word and deed.Turn the mind towards God; that will keep it strong and sweet.We have to believe constantly that God is resident in our heart. There is no separation between you andyour God.Whatever happens to man, good or bad, is the result of his own deeds. God is a witness.

Whatever you difficulties, whatever the ordeals you have to undergo, in any situation, do not give up God.God is one whether you are affluent or destitute, whether you are a scholar or an ignoramus. Whatevertroubles you may be faced with, whatever spiritual practices you may adopt, whether you are regarded as asinner or saint, 'Do not give up God and realise God is one'.When we remember God, our life will be filled with peace and happiness.When you learn to reach God, you have to observe the guidelines He has marked out. You need not dwellon His name, or His lineaments all the time. That may not take you far. But, walk along the path: everystep will bring you near.Nov 87It is not easy to understand the nature of the Divine. Because the Divine is omnipresent, He can undertakeany kind of activity. No one is competent to ask whether God can do this or that, whether He can workthrough one agency or another. There is nothing that is beyond His power. He can make one weep, Hecan avert one’s tears. He can turn a hedonist into a yogi and a yogi into a hedonist. He can drive awaymadness or cause madness. He can create, He can protect, He can punish, He can destroy. only theDivine knows what to do, when, how and in what circumstance, with regard to any particular individual.No one has the authority to tell the Divine how He should act.God deals with a person according to his past actions and according to the requirements of the prevailingsituation.The cosmos is the embodiment of the Divine. Differences arise when anyone acts out of self motives. Butthe divine has no self-interest at all. Hence whatever He does is only for the good of others. Every act ofHis is holy. It is Dharma (righteous action). It is Truth.21. 2. 88The whole universe is the mansion of the Lord.There is a valid reason behind every action of the Divine. Therefore, your duty is to pray to God andsecure His grace.There is a valid reason behind every action of the Divine. Therefore, your duty is to pray to God andsecure His grace.7. 88Faith in God being within the heart, faith in His Constant Presence and Constant Guidance - these willconfer Courage, Virtue and Illumination.Give up all doubts regarding the Guru and God. If your worldly desires do not get fulfilled, do not blame iton your devotion. There is no relationship between such desires and devotion to God. These worldlydesires have to be given up some day or other; Bhakthi feelings have to be acquired some day or other. Befirmly convinced of this.8. 88All things in creation are equal in the eyes of God. God is immanent in all of them.Be good; see good; do good; this is the way to God.Believe that God resides in all beings, speak only good words to spread goodness, truth and beauty aroundyou. Do acts which will promote the happiness and prosperity of everyone and pray for peace in all theworlds.

Childhood is spent in ignorance; youth is spent for family and worldly pursuits; old age is embraced withmany worries. Where is time for one to think of the Lord, and attain the lotus feet? You must alwaysremember God, whatever happens in life.Christ declared to the world three important things:(1) God is one.(2) He is omnipotent.(3) Do not hurt anyone. God is the indwelled in every being.15. 9. 88Develop faith in God. All names are His - Rama, Krishna, Christ or any other name. Every man is anembodiment of the Divine.20. 9. 88When you offer all your energies and potencies to the Divine, you experience ineffable bliss.Without earning the grace of that Lord, all other acquisitions are of no value.Worship in the mind! Give me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with theperfume of virtue and innocence and washed in the tears of repentance! Install God in your heart and offerHim the fruits of your actions and the flowers of your inner thoughts and feelings.Worship the Lord as the resident of your heart.Your experience of God is determined by your feelings and method of approach to Him. The Lord has Hisfeet, head and eyes and ears everywhere and He appears to every person in the form envisaged by him.Your master is your heart, where God resides.Whatever your difficulties, whatever the ordeals you have to undergo, in any situation, do not give up God.God is one whether you are affluent or destitute, whether you are a scholar or an ignoramus. Whatevertroubles you may be faced with, whatever spiritual practices you may adopt, whether you are regarded as asinner or saint, `Do not give up God and realise God is one'.When we remember God, our life will be filled with peace and happiness.When you learn to reach God, you have to observe the guidelines He has marked out. You need not dwellon His name, or His lineaments all the time. That may not take you far. But, walk along the path: everystep will bring you near.When you offer life, all your energies and potencies to the Divine, you experience ineffable bliss.Your experience of God is determined by your feelings and method of approach to Him. The Lord has Hisfeet, head and eyes and ears everywhere and He appears to every person in the form envisaged by him.Your master is your heart, where God resides.The whole Universe is the Lord's abode.Where, then, is a street or door for that mansion?Play on the life-strings of your body,Shed tears of devotion and offer your spirit.See Heaven in that experience.That is the road and the door!The Lord's ways cannot be easily understood. He makes one devotee weep and He wipes the tears ofanother. He turns an ascetic into a pleasure-seeker and a libertine into a saint. He excites craziness in one

and removes lunacy in another. These baffling sports of the Divine are the theme of the songs in LeelaSankirtan.10. 88Give up all doubts regarding the Guru and God. If your worldly desires do not get fulfilled, do not blame iton your devotion. There is no relationship between such desires and devotion to God. These worldlydesires have to be given up some day or other; Bhakthi feelings have to be acquired some day or other. Befirmly convinced of this.God becomes close to you only through love.(God is that mysterious power from which the worlds around me originated, through which theydisintegrate, which is the base on which all creation rests and moves - Gandhi)God is the echo of the hills, the flutter of the leaves, the whisper of men, the babble of children, the OM thatis wafted everywhere.God is the source of all love. Love God, love the world as the vesture of God, no more no less.God is understood only by the one who loves Him. The one who truly loves God is understood only byHim. Others cannot fully understand such a one. So, do not discuss matters relating to the love of Godwith others who have no devotion. If you do, your own devotion will be drained and diminished.God is the very embodiment of love. To reach God, you yourself should be full of love.God becomes close to you only through love.God belongs to all. He is universal. All of you have to give up differences of every kind and give noroom for narrow parochial and national loyalties. Consider yourselves as the children of one God. Youmay worship God in any form of your choice, but recognise the truth that God is only one. The observanceof holy days like Christmas is an occasion for realising the importance of love and harmony among humanbeings.God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest of silence.God is one, not many. God appears to the devotees depending on their feelings but there is no differentGod. There is no separate God for different castes, for different religions.God is one, not many. God appears to the devotees depending on their feelings but there is no differentGod. There is no separate God for different castes, for different religions.23. 11. 88I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added lustre.I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith, so that the Christianbecomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim and a Hindu, a better HinduIf you want to worship God, worship Him in the human form alone.creations of the imagination.All other forms are artificial andDivinity is present in man like fragrance in a flower, fire in wood and oil in sesame, not visible but latent.Unaware of the inner truth, men are carried away by external appearances and consider them as the realityDo not allow anything to come near you which will destroy your eagerness and enthusiasm for God. Wantof eagerness will cause the decay of the strength of man.

Do not give up your duties in the world. But do them with the name of God on your lips and invite thegrace of God into your mind.Every activity in the world is God-directed, God-ward moving, whether you know or do not know. Onlyone has to be aware of it and share in the thrill of that knowledge.God is only one. Your forms of worship, rituals and beliefs are purely personal and do not relate to theUniversal. `Divinity' means that which is whole, all-embracing. The one Divine is present in all beings.Every being is filled with Truth and Love.God is prepared to descend to the level of the devotee for the sake of his uplift. He knows what Hisdevotee wants, when to give them, and how much to give. Do not ask; if you go on asking, thechances of your wishes being fulfilled are very remote. If you do not ask, immediately all your desires willbe fulfilled.God is the very embodiment of love. To reach God, you yourself should be full of love.Divinity is present in man like fragrance in a flower, fire in wood and oil in sesame, not visible but latent.Unaware of the inner truth, men are carried away by external appearances and consider them as the reality.Do not allow anything to come near you which will destroy your eagerness and enthusiasm for God. Wantof eagerness will cause the decay of the strength of man.Do not give up your duties in the world. But do them with the name of God on your lips and invite thegrace of God into your mind.Every activity in the world is God-directed, God-ward moving, whether you know or do not know. Onlyone has to be aware of it and share in the thrill of that knowledge.If you want to worship God, worship Him in the human form alone.creations of the imagination.All other forms are artificial andIf you wish to attain God you have to remove yourself from desire and attachment. You can do that onlythrough love.If we try to make our mind pure, then we shall be able to discover anything and everything. In our spiritualpractice (sadhana), the first thing we have to do is to deepen and steady our faith. God is all pervading andHe knows everything, and so the essence of the Spirit that flows out of our mind will be very near to God.Because God comes out of our heart in the form of speech, we must try to make our speech as pure and asclean as possible. God is also in the form of Truth. So whatever we will be telling through our speechGod will say to it `Let it be so!'If you can establish the Lord, who transcends time, in your heart, then you become divine yourself.If you earn the grace of the Divine even mountains of sin can be reduced to dust. Only the Divine has thepower to confer such grace.The Divine dwells in the entire Universe, from the minute atom to the vastest star. This Divine power ispresent in everything in creation. Only man has the capacity to recognise this power.12. 2. 89Surrender to God means to leave everything to His will and is the highest form of Divine Love.The actions of the Divine are totally free from self-interest. Because God is the embodiment of Love, notaint can adhere to God's actions. As God is the embodiment of all that is pure and untainted, any defect

that is attributable to God is only a projection of the defect in the individual concerned. Your defectivevision makes you see defects which do not exist in creation.The bliss that is all-pervasive in the cosmos is also within man. But, as in the case of butter which ispresent in every drop of milk but which can be seen only after the milk is curdled and the buttermilk ischurned, this inner bliss can be experienced only after the right effort is made. The mind is filled withvarious kinds of joy. It is only when the appropriate enquiry is made and one's true nature is ascertainedthat the divine Sat-Chit-Ananda inherent in one will be manifest.21. 3. 89Man is beset today with many problems and difficulties. He alone is a true human being who faces thesedifficulties with fortitude and overcomes them. For this, what is required is strength of Spirit. Withoutspiritual strength, all other things are valueless.Man proposes, but God disposes.24. 3. 89People today try to find God in religions. But God is to be found not in religions but in the mind. It isonly when the mind is controlled and purified that God will be recognised.Place your faith in God and do your duty to the best of your ability. Saturate yourselves with love andshare it with all. If you earn the love of God even to the slightest extent, you will experience infinite joy.Remember always that God permeates everything in the cosmos. Everything you experience is Divine.What all you see is Divine. What you eat is Divine. The air you breathe is Divine. You cannot see theair, nor can you grasp God. The eyes cannot see Him. He can only be experienced in the heart. He isbeyond the mind.7. 4. 89Air has the power to blot out a flame. A lamp is endowed with the power to spread illumination. But thesame air is needed to keep the flame of the lamp burning. Thus the air has the God-given power both toextinguish a flame or keep it burning. How does the same element have both these contradictory powers?This is the mystery of the powers of the Divine.All are expressions of the same God, as bulbs lit by the same current though of manifold colours andvoltage.All religions, all scriptures, all spiritual teachings point only to one truth - the unity of Divinity.All things in creation are equal in the eyes of God. God is immanent in all of them. (8. 88)Be good; see good; do good; this is the way to God.Believe that God resides in all beings, speak only good words to spread goodness, truth and beauty aroundyou. Do acts which will promote the happiness and prosperity of everyone and pray for peace in all theworlds.Childhood is spent in ignorance; youth is spent for family and worldly pursuits; old age is embraced withmany worries. Where is time for one to think of the Lord, and attain the lotus feet? You must alwaysremember God, whatever happens in life.Christ declared to the world three important things: (1) God is one. (2) He is omnipotent. (3) Do not hurtanyone. God is the indwelled in every being.14. 4. 89

God belongs to all. He is universal. All of you have to give up differences of every kind and give noroom for narrow parochial and national loyalties. Consider yourselves as the children of one God. Youmay worship God in any form of your choice, but recognise the truth that God is only one. The observanceof holy days like Christmas is an occasion for realising the importance of love and harmony among humanbeings.God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest of silence.God can be realised only through love and by no other means.God desires no offerings from any devotee. God is the only one friend who confers benefits on devoteeswithout expecting any return. Nevertheless man does not readily accept such a friend. Only the man whoaccepts God as such a friend and is guided by His advice can understand the full meaning of Divinefriendship. Faith of this nature alone constitutes true Jnana.God dwells in all beings in one and the same form. Although living beings may vary from each other, Godis One and indivisible.God has no preferences and prejudices, His is but reaction, reflection and resound.God has provided two hands for every stomach. If those hands work assiduously and intelligently, theycan, without doubt, fill that little stomach. The trouble is, we are loathe to work. We welcome everychance to talk and teach. But, speech cannot fill the hungry stomach. Work, work, dedicated work,intelligent work that is needed. Work unitedly.If you wish to attain God you have to remove yourself from desire and attachment. You can do that onlythrough love.If we try to make our mind pure, then we shall be able to discover anything and everything. In our spiritualpractice (sadhana), the first thing we have to do is to deepen and steady our faith. God is all pervading andHe knows everything, and so the essence of the Spirit that flows out of our mind will be very near to God.Because God comes out of our heart in the form of speech, we must try to make our speech as pure and asclean as possible. God is also in the form of Truth. So whatever we will be telling through our speechGod will say to it 'Let it be so!'If you can establish the Lord, who transcends time, in your heart, then you become divine yourself.If you earn the grace of the Divine even mountains of sin can be reduced to dust. Only the Divine has thepower to confer such grace.In the quest for the Divine, there should be no hurry. Purity and serenity are required for God realisation.There can be no happiness for the man who lacks peace.In the quest for the Divine, there should be no hurry. Purity and serenity are required for God realisation.There can be no happiness for the man who lacks peace.25. 4. 89The sandalwood tree imparts its fragrance even to the axe that fells it. Likewise God is ever prepared tolove, foster and protect equally everyone without any distinction.18. 7. 89God is very much nearer to you than your mother and dearer to you than your father. You cannot afford toforget such a God. Bear this good counsel in mind.

God will grant you what you need and deserve; there is no need to ask, no reason to grumble. Be content,be grateful, whatever happens, whenever it happens. Nothing can happen against His will .God's love is unbounded. It knows no growth or diminution. Worldly love is momentary and fickle.Divine love is unchanging and eternal. Some may feel that they had experienced God's love for a time andhad been deprived of it later. This reflects only their own feelings and not the attitude of the Lord.God's love is unbounded. It knows no growth or diminution. Worldly love is momentary and fickle.Divine love is unchanging and eternal. Some may feel that they had experienced God's love for a time andhad been deprived of it later. This reflects only their own feelings and not the attitude of the Lord.Have the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart; then, you cannot hate anyone, you cannot indulge inunhealthy rivalries, you will not find fault with anyone. Life becomes soft, sweet and smooth.23. 11. 89Remember that which is holier than all holy objects is the name of God which can transform the lowernature and purify it into nectar.See God in everyone you meet; see God in everything you handle. Live together, revere each other; let notthe seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of love.Seek to acquire the friendship of God, than whom there is no greater friend in the world.Single pointed concentration upon pure consciousness is the only real contemplation.Six qualities are attributed to the Divine. They are (1) Aiswarya (Wealth), (2) Dharma (Righteousness), (3)Yasas (Fame), (4) Sampada (Prosperity), (5) Jnana (Supreme Wisdom), (6) Vairagya (Non-attachment).25. 12. 89Christ embarked on his mission and went about calling upon people to earn the love of God by developinglove towards God.Cultivate a nearness with Me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction ofthe Supreme Love.God is complete love incarnate. This love shines equally in every human being. The fragrance of a flowerremains the same whether it is held in the right hand or the left. Likewise God has no distinctions such asthe favoured and excluded.God is everywhere and in everyone.God is for those who are not for themselves.God is in you, above you, around you, behind you. All of you are God in reality; differences in name andform are but temporary and external.God is like a mirror. What you see is only a reflection of your own action and posture. God neitherpunishes nor rewards anyone.God neither punishes nor rewards any one. You are punished or rewarded by your own actions.Whatever Sadhana you may or may not do, your primary concern must be to develop the love of God.Develop love for God. Don’t give up your devotion to God even if others ridicule you on that account.don’t lose faith in Him when you are in difficulties. Consider everything - pain and pleasure, loss and gain,

joy and sorrow as God’s prasad - divine gift or grace. don’t forget to chant His name under anycircumstances. God’s name is the only reliable boat to ferry you across the river of life.22. 5. 90Punishment or reward is the outcome of your own actions.God is omnipresent. So do not act differently when you are away from My presence. Be always andeverywhere conscious of the presence. Be vigilant, even while engaged in little tasks. Maintain silence inthe recesses of the heart, as well as outside. The Gita says that God's hands and feet are everywhere. Youcan hear the footfall only when no other sound hinders. God out of His infinite grace, assumes the formthat the devotee yearns for. He is purity. He is the supreme wisdom. He is ever free, ever merciful.Develop the awareness of God, see Him, and serve Him in every living being.25. 5. 90God never forgets devotees, it is the devotees who forget God. God never gives up on the devotee; onlythe devotee leaves God.God is very much nearer to you than your mother and dearer to you than your father. You cannot afford toforget such a God. Bear this good counsel in mind.God will grant you what you need and deserve; there is no need to ask, no reason to grumble. Be content,be grateful, whatever happens, whenever it happens. Nothing can happen against His will.3. 6. 90God is omnipresent. So do not act differently when you are away from My presence. Be always andeverywhere conscious of the presence. Be vigilant, even while engaged in little tasks. Maintain silence inthe recesses of the heart, as well as outside. The Gita says that God's hands and feet are everywhere. Youcan hear the footfall only when no other sound hinders. God out of His infinite grace, assumes the formthat the devotee yearns for. He is purity. He is the supreme wisdom. He is ever free, ever merciful.Develop the awareness of God, see Him, and serve Him in every living being.God is one for all people though He may be worshipped under different names and forms. Whether theyare Hindus or Muslims, Christians or Parsees, Buddhists or Sikhs, God is one for all. Whatever the form inwhich worship is done, it reaches the one God. The sun is one and does not vary with the nations on whichhe sheds his light.25. 6. 90The world is a temple, the temple of the Lord, His body where He resides.14. 1. 91The Lord pervades everything in the cosmos with His myriad feet, hands, eyes, faces and ears. But man,not recognising the fact, imagines he is the doer and indulges in all kinds of speculation, thinking that noone knows about them. The Lord sees everything. No one can conceal anything from Him.12. 2. 91God is prepared to descend to the level of the devotee for the sake of his uplift. He knows what Hisdevotee wants, when to give them, and how much to give. Do not ask; if you go on asking, the chances ofyour wishes being fulfilled are very remote. If you do not ask, immediately all your desires will befulfilled.God is present in every human being as a seed, which sprouts into a plant, develops leaves and branches inthe form of qualities (gunas) and blossoms into the flower of Sat-Chit-Ananda (BeingAwareness-Bliss).

(God is that mysterious power from which the worlds around me originated, through which theydisintegrate, which is the base on which all creation rests and moves - Gandhi)God is the echo of the hills, the flutter of the leaves, the whisper of men, the babble of children, the Om thatis wafted everywhere.God is the source of all love. Love God, love the world as the vesture of God, no more no less.God is understood only by the one who loves Him. The one who truly loves God is understood only byHim. Others cannot fully understand such a one. So, do not discuss matters relating to the love of Godwith others who have no devotion. If you do, your own devotion will be drained and diminished.29. 5. 91If God is pleased with one’s actions, the whole world will be pleased. No effort is needed to please othersseparately.31. 5. 91Nearness to God enables you to get rid of your bad qualities and to acquire good qualities.1. 1. 92Regard the entire cosmos as the great mansion of the Supreme Lord. it has no streets or doors. Totalsurrender is the way to enter the mansion.Faith in God is the guarantee of victory.If we acquire God’s love we can achieve anything in life.Everyone has to strive to make that love the basis of his life.Love is the one all-pervading element.The body is the temple of God. In everybody God is installed, whether the owner of the body recognises itor not. It is God that inspires you to good acts, that warns you against the bad. Listen to that voice andyou will not come to any harm.23. 11. 92God is formless and attributeless. The unmanifested Divine is worshipped in various forms . God is noteasily accessible to everyone joy is derived there from.1. 1. 93Every action is preceded by a cause. This cause is God. Hence, God and cosmos are related as cause andeffect. The relationship is inter-dependent and inseparable.Everyone is selfish in this world. God alone is selfless. He alone has the authority to confer joy even onselfish persons. He alone is the Master. Follow the Master.14. 1. 93All acts should be performed in a spirit of dedication, realising that God is omnipresent. Then bliss will beexperienced.19. 2. 93There can be no greater thing than to have God as one’s friend.24. 3. 93To seek the Truth and experience God, there is no need to go out anywhere. By going to a forest orvisiting temples, the inner being is not purified. Renouncing all worldly things, one must explore his innerlife. This precription of sacrifice is what the vedas recommend for attaining immortality.11. 4. 93

God is the energy which drives us to action. We should not waste out energy on useless things.14. 4. 93God is as a spark in every one. To recognise this Divinity man has to do some sadhana. A mirror thoughclean may not reflect your image if it is not having the mercury coating behind it. So also the heart may bepure but there should be the coating of love behind it to facilitate reflection of God.God, in the form of conscience, activates the body. If man only understands this truth of spirituality he willnever indulge in bad deeds.Love is God, live in love. The relationship with God breeds love alone and nothing but love. All otherrelationships with your mother, father, spouse or children are temporary. So you should have confidenceonly in the one relationship that is ever-lasting and that is with God.26. 4. 93The best way to love God is to love all and serve all.20. 5. 93All worldly things are like passing clouds. There is only one that is permanent and changeless. That isBrahmathathwa. It should be realised through the path of pure love.24. 5. 93Realise that it is not possible to comprehend fully the ways of the DivineLove of God and fear none. Only the guilt need fear. Why fear when you are innocent? Without any fearin your hearts, meditate on God. This is the royal road to the Divine in the Kali age.The Lord alone is the saviour of the helpless and the forlorn. Do not waver in faith in the Lord in anycircumstance. Go ahead with your tasks with faith and determination.Everything in the phenomenal universe is pervaded by God. When you see Nature, you see only itsworldly aspect. When your mind is centred on God, you see the Divine in everything. The fault lies,therefore, in your outlook and not in creation. Transform your perspective.The divinity present in man and the divinity in God are one and the same, just as bulbs may vary but thecurrent that makes them shine is the same. The differences in the luminosity are related to the wattage ofthe bulbs and not to the current that flows in them. This applies equally to the differences among humanbeings. When a person is filled with narrow feelings, he appears inferior to one who is broad-minded andgood-hearted. A man may consider himself ignorant, foolish or stupid. But this is utterly wrong. He is,in fact, not ignorant or fooled. He is intelligent, well-intentioned and wise. All that needs is a change inattitude to experience these inherent capacities. You have to make the divine effulgence in your heartshine.25. 5. 93O foolish man! why do you seek God outside like the ignorant musk deer? Like the fragrance in a flower,God is right inside you, if you look with insight.God is in man; nay, man himself is God But strangely and foolishly man searches for God in the outsideworld. However just like the ash that covers the fire on the charcoal, desire and hatred envelop thisdivinity in man. Even as the fire is revealed when the ash is blown off, the Self(Atma) will reveal Itself toman when he gets rid of desire and hatred.21. 7. 93In the great drama of cosmic life, the Cosmic Director, God, is also an actor. The cosmic play is governedby certain rules and regulations. Because He is the Almighty. God cannot behave in an arbitrary manner.

His actions have to be in accordance with His role in the cosmic play. There are certain rules as to howone should act according to the time, the place and the circumstances. He cannot behave according to Hiswhims just because He is all-powerful. For instance, the officer who lays down the rules for controllingtraffic cannot disobey them on the ground that he is the author. Likewise, the Creator has to conform tothe rules laid down by Him for creation.The Lord's heart is boundless. He is concerned about the collective well-being of all. Man, however,tends to have a narrow and limited perspective. A narrow outlook can lead only to a limited result. Godmakes no distinction between one group and another. He loves all equally. He blesses all. He wishesgood for every one. Let the whole world be happy is His benediction. Whatever people's desires are theywill be fulfilled by God only according to their desets.10. 8. 93God alone knows to whom, in what circumstances, at what time, to what extent and in what form His graceshould be showered.In the great cosmic drama, the Lord is also an actor. The time should be ripe for the role he has to play in aparticular sequence of events. His action should be appropriate to his role. He cannot act otherwise.Whatever the Lord does is for the well-being of the world. His sole concern is the welfare of the world.Whether the Lord makes his presence felt in certain situation or not should not be judged by narrow humanconsiderations. The Lord will reveal his powers only at the appropriate moment, when the time is ripe.Just as a fruit takes time to ripen, God also bides his time. It is improper to speculate on the nature of theDivine actions. Even the omnipotent and omniscient Lord has to respect the time factor. He has toobserve the rules of the Cosmic game. He cannot violate His own rules and regulations even as a trafficauthority cannot transgress the traffic rules made by him.Realise that it is not possible to comprehend fully the ways of the Divine. Love God and fear none. Onlythe guilty need fear. Why fear when you are innocent? Without any fear in your hearts, meditate on God.This is the royal road to the Divine in the Kali age.The Lord alone is the saviour of the helpless and the forlorn. Do not waver in faith in the Lord in anycircumstance. Go ahead with your tasks with faith and determination.God tests people in many ways. They are intended only to promote your spiritual progress. None canaffect God in any way. Why lose your faith in Him? There are signs of weakness. Give no room for suchunfortunate doubts. Strengthen your faith and realise God by your devotion.15. 8. 93The Divine cannot be realised through wealth, scholarship or by any other means except love. This sacredlove is being fragmented in many ways out of worldly attachments and is being treated as a trivial thing.This is the means in which people today reject truth and welcome falsehood and go afar to consumealcoholic drinks, while refusing wholesome milk and curds offered to them at their doorstep. It is the badfeelings within them which make them behave in this way. Hence, there is great need for people tocultivate good thoughts and good feeling.19. 9. 93Like oil in the till seed,Like ghee in milk,Fragrance in a flower,Juice in a fruit,Fire in wood,Divinity is everywhere.

The power of vision in the eye and of taste in the tongue are derived from this Chaithanya (Consciousness).People are using the sense organs but do not know the source of the power which activates them.A seed germinates and grows into a plant and then into a tree with branches, leaves, flowers etc. The seedof the entire universe is Chaithanya (Pure Consciousness). It is Satchithananda. It grows in full bloom inthe human being and blossoms into the flower of Awareness. Thus God incarnate in man. To understandthis truth is the goal of human life. It is the mind that stands in the way of this realisation.10. 93There is no place in the universe where God is not present. Just as air is everywhere even though wecannot see it with our eyes, Divinity is all-pervasive. But for this Divinity, the Sun and the Moon cannotshine, rivers will not flow, crops will not grow. The Divine governs the whole universe. All things increation are for the use of the entire world. No one can claim exclusive right over these gifts of Nature.The same Supreme Being who saved Prahlada by appearing from the pillar and punishing his demonicfather, the same Supreme Being who came to the rescue of Kuchela, the same Being who descended fromVaikunta to save Gajendra, the Lord of the elephants, has now come to the world as Satchithanandamurthi,presiding over the hearts of all as Puttaparthi Chakravarthi.You will realise that I have come to remind you of your Reality, that in fact, everyone of you is anembodiment of Satchithananda25. 12. 93There is no need to search for God anywhere, since God resides in everybeing. The body is, therefore, tobe considered as temple of God. Today man is breeding bad thoughts in the mind, thereby polluting theheart which is the seat of the Divine.1. 1. 94Without God's grace living itself will be impossible for mankind. Even the troubles you may experienceare the gifts of the Divine. When you surrender all your actions, you will surely receive His grace.One moon is reflected in hundreds of thousands of pots. There is only one Brahman which is reflected inthe millions and billion of beings. There is no second. You place one before zero, the zero gets value.World is zero, Sun is zero, Moon is zero. Actually they are all round-shaped like zero only. All these getvalue because of the one God behind them. God is the only Hero and all else are zeroes.Keeping God as your guide and saviour, whatever work you may do will yield sure success. God is youronly true friend. All other friends may be with you as long as you have wealth, but the moment you loseeverything, the friends will desert you. God is the only friend who will be ever with you. He is alwayswith you, in you and beside you. Therefore, the only way for prosperity is to develop friendship with theLord.14. 1. 94.Like the oil latent in the till seed,Like ghee latent in milk,Like the fragrance latent in a flower,Like the juice latent in a fruit,Like the fire latent in a faggot,The Divine is immanent in every human being.3. 2. 94People imagine that God is an entity far beyond human conception and grasp. That is not true. Divinity isnearer than anything else in the world. If you consider It remote, It will appear distant, but if you regard Itas near It will be near.

As long as man is attached to the body, he cannot realise God. Only when he sheds his attachment, he canexperience the Divine.When God comes in human form, moves freely amongst you, talks with you, jokes with you, eats with youand drinks with you, even then you fail to recognise God. You pursue your own types of devotion. This isnot correct. You must worship the living Divinity, not the lifeless. Honour every human being who is inhuman form. See the Divine in every man.11. 3. 94God looks for your devotion and not for your abilities. He looks into your mind rather than at your wealth.He judges you by your virtues and not by your caste. He is concerned about what you think than about thereligion you profess. He is intent on attracting your heart and not your wealth. But, today, people imaginethat God can be propitiated by the offer of money. This is due to the devotee's ignorance.Where there is confidence, there is love" " " love, " " peace" " " peace, " " truth" " " truth, " " bliss" " " bliss, " " God.Turn your minds towards God. Limit your worldly desire5. 6. 94God can be known only by experience and not by experiments. Sadhana is needed for this purpose.19. 6. 94Man extols God as omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, but, he ignores His Presence in himself!22. 7. 94It should be realised that the divinity in human beings cannot be measured in terms of worldly goods. Ithas to be measured in terms of love. Mankind has to understand this love principle.21. 8. 94God is one but is called by different names.The love of God should be developed. Love for all other worldly things is bound to change. Only love forthe Divine can be unchanging.One should regard love for God as the greatest treasure one can have. When you love God, you will havelove towards all because the Divine is in everyone.The best way to serve God is to love all and serve all.The worship of the Lord should be accompanied by leading a Godly life.experienced.Only then bliss can beGod showers His grace according to one's deserts. He is the embodiment of Love. One's bad qualitiespresent one from realising the grace of God. The fault lies with the individuals and not with God.If you fill your heart with love of God, you will secure all powers. Therefore, live in love. Redeem yourlives through love. Let love become your life-breath and the sole goal of your life.28. 8. 94

God has no dislike for anyone. He envies no one. He has no ill-will towards anyone. Nor does he havefavourites. The grace one gets is the result of one's own feelings. The Divine is beyond feelings andattributes. He is the One, the Truth, the pure, the immovable. He is the Eternal Witness in all minds.No amount of scholarship will give you peace, unless you are filled with the love of God.30. 8. 94Contemplating on God with all your heart, chanting his name and surrendering to him, redeem your life.4. 9. 94God and Truth are not distinct. God is the very form of Truth. It is the duty of the humans to keep Truthas the ideal and adhere to it at any cost. Truth is the abode of God. It is the basis of all knowledge andwisdom.Just the eyes, ears and other limbs are parts of the body, every individual is a part of society. Society is alimb of humanity. Humanity is a limb of Nature and Nature is a limb of God. Man has to realise theintegral relationship between himself and God.You need not go anywhere searching for God. Divinity is within you. Just as there are many limbs in thebody which are activated by one heart inside, the same God is the Life Force for all beings. The entireUniverse is a reflection of the Supreme Being.16. 9. 94God's love is permanent while all other love among human beings is only transient and temporary.9. 10. 94Oh man! If the Divine Lord is not visible to you,Just as the stars cannot be seen in day light,Because you are blinded by ignorance,Do not deny His existence.God is nearer to everyone than one's parents, spouse or children. Kith and kin are outside one, but God iswithin the body. Forgetting the God who is nearest and closest to them, people are trying to seek for aninvisible God elsewhere.A man who is attached to the body can never experience a formless, incorporeal God. Only when he getsrid of the body Consciousness can he recognise the transcendental Divine. Hence, as long as one hasattachment to the body, one must adore God in a physical form.God is one, though names and forms may differ.14. 10. 94Arjuna saw the Cosmic Form of the Lord ( as described in the Gita). All the worlds were seen in thatCosmic form of Krishna. That Lord resides in every human being. He is nearer than one's closest kith andkin and is dearer than anyone else. He is the sole saviour and refuge of man.23. 10. 94Just as a cow’s milk can be got only from the udder and not from any other part of the cow, God’s imagecan be visualised only by those with a heart full of love and which is pure and free from selfishness. Godcannot be perceived by those with impure minds and polluted hearts.The sun cannot be seen when he is covered by a cloud. But when the wind sweeps the cloud away, theeffulgent sun becomes visible. likewise man has to drive away the cloud of ignorance enveloping his mindby meditating on God.

The love of God can arise only from loving thoughts. There must be yearning for God, just as one has toexperience hunger to think of food. There is hunger for God in everyone, but the disease of self-prideprevents one from feeling that hunger. The denial of God is a kind of disease. The unbeliever is afflictedby a variety of diseases like pride, envy, anger and greed.25. 11. 94God knows and God will deal with you as you deserve. Have the faith,. Repent for all wrongs done andresolve not to repeat the mistake; then God will extend His Grace.15. 4. 95To make God approach you, you have to engage yourself in service of others, in conferring joy on them,and in activities which will please God. Subject all that you do to the test of divine pleasure.28. 4. 95Time spent in thought of God or adoration of the Divine is indeed well spent, for, it rewards you with a richharvest oof mental peace and courage.15. 5. 95Everyone should realise that God is with him, beside him and around him all the time.God offers you in return manifold what you offer to him.Today the devotee behaves differently towards God. He goes with a mountain of desires to the temple andoffers a small coconut. This is not what you should offer to God. What you should offer is a pure,unsullied heart. If you offer little, God gives you much in return. This means that some kind of offeringshould be made to God.Draupadi offered a grain of rice to Krishna with devotion and Krishna, in return, appeased the hunger ofthousands (of Duruvasa’a disciples). God needs nothing for Himself, whatever you offer is for your ownsake.What God seeks is a heart filled with love. There is nothing greater in the world than such a heart.Contemplate on God every moment as your life-breath.20. 5. 95In the contemplation of God there can be no difference of caste or creed, no distinctions based on age orlanguage. It is open to everyone. Like food for the body. God is vital for the mind. In the practice ofdevotion there may be some ludicrous exercises. But even in such exercises, there is a spiritual undercurrent.Every man has to understand the nature of the universe. He should also understand the life principle.Only those who understand the nature of living beings in the universe can know the secret of the Divine.Whatever the Divine does, whether it is something small or great, it is for the Good of mankind. There is apower at work about which we are ignorrant. This was described as the unknown power. The ancientscalled it the power of god8. 7. 95There is so much power in the feet of the Lord which you cannot understand. The feet form the basis fornot only the physical frame of the body, but also for spiritual and ethical purposes. The significance ofeach limb of the body is explained in Vedantha.9. 7. 95

When you realise that God is in everyone, you will practice non-violence. God is one, though He may beworshipped in different forms and under different names. You may call him Rama or Krishna, Allah orJesus, Hari or Sai. Any name can be uttered by any one.If you want to transform the world, to promote all-round prosperity in the country, to make the prayer that‘all people should be happy’ become reality, develop faith in the Self. Never forget God. Without Godthere is no universe. Let the non-believers have their way. But they have no right to question the belief ofothers. To ask for physical proofs of the existence of experience like bliss or love or for subtle things likethe fragrance of a flower is impracticable. To deny the reality of love on the ground that it has norecognisable form is meaningless. Love may have no form. But the mother who exhibits love has a form.All beings are manifestations of the Cosmic Divine. The forms are different but the spirit that animatesthem all is One, like the current that illumines bulbs of different colours and wattage. Cultivate this feelingof oneness and do not be critical of any faith or religion. Dedicate your lives to the service of your fellowbeings. Thereby you will be redeeming your lives.11. 7. 95God is the Eternal Witness. He is the dispenser of the fruits of actions. He gives you according to yourdeserts. He is in no way responsible for your grief or happiness.What is that you have to offer to God? Not a leaf, a flower, a fruit or holy water. You have to offeryourself to God. Then you become one with the Divine. That is what God desires from you.12. 7. 95Who is the Guru? He is the Divine dispeller of the darkness within you. The Divine Trinity (Brahma,Vishnu and Maheshwara) have been described as gurus. This implies that the Divine should be regarded asthe supreme preceptor, who can destroy the darkness of ignorance.18. 8. 95The cosmos is a creation of the Divine. It is surcharged with energy. This energy is not localised at aparticular point in space or in time. Though this energy is all-pervading, man is not able to recognise itsdivine nature. As he cannot recognise it, he presumes that it does not exist. Electrical energy is present allthe time. But its presence is recognised only when a bulb is switched on. Likewise, though God isomnipresent, His divine effulgence will shines only in those who adore Him with a pure heart.God is all perfection. Hence, in worshipping Him, the feeling should be total. God should not beworshipped in halves and fractions. The devotee should achieve total involvement with the Divine.Quantitatively there would be a difference between God, which is the ocean of Love, and the devoteewhose love is a drop in that ocean. But the quality of love is the same.The Divine is in every individual, but one’s realisation depends on one’s own efforts. The Divine shinesaccording to the degree of one’s spiritual awareness. To manifest the full effulgence of the Divine, one hasto adhere to the path of Love. Only through Love can the Supreme Divine be attained.God cannot be got by hatred, anger or jealousy. It is because these three evil qualities are present in peoplethat you see in their faces the marks of misery. On the contrary look at the faces of Dhruva, Prahlada andNarada. You see extreme brilliance on their faces because they are filled with the love of God. Thereshould be no mark of sadness on the face of one who has faith in God.Whatever you do, remember the omnuipresence of the Divine. Do every act to please God, out of love andnot out of compulsion.5. 9. 95Oil is present throughout the sesame seed. Ghee is present in every drop of milk. Fragrance is present inan invisible form in a flower. A fruit is filled with sweet juice. In every piece of wood fire is latent. Inthe same manner the Divine is immanent in the entire cosmos is a subtle form.

God is present not in some country or some body. Like vision in the eye and hearing in the ear, God ispresent in the mind as Consciousness. The cosmos is the visible manifestation of the invisible SupremeSelf.The Divine is effulgent in every man as Sath- Chith- Ananda (Being - Awareness - Bliss), the CosmicConsciousness.Reflections of the sun shining in the sky can be seen in the oceans, rivers, the lakes and in wells. Thoughthe reflections are varied, the sun is one alone. The Divine is present in man like the unseen thread whichholds a garland of gems together. The entire cosmos is permeated by the Divine and is the visiblemanifestation of the Divine.Nothing in the world, no object, no human being, no creature can be found wherein God is not present.Though man appears in the world in different forms, speaking different languages, his essential humannessis common to one and all. There is only one race, that is the human race. God is only one. He is Sath -Chith- Ananda.Just as a seed sprouts and grows into a plant wherein a flower blossoms, so does the Divine seed grow in theheart of man and blossoms as a flower, Sath - Chith- Ananda. Just as it is natural for a seed to become afragrant flower, so is it natural for man to experience the bliss of the Divine.People pay a water tax to the authorities who make available water at their dwelling from a diistant source.Likewise people have to pay dues for the electricity supply which they receive. What is the ‘tax’ you payto the Divine for implanting divinity in you when you consider yourself to be remote from God because ofyour involvement in worldly affairs? You pay fro small amounts of water supply and electrical energy. Butwhat do you pay for the heavy downpour of rain which you get from Providence? God fills the tanks andrivers with water. He provides the man with the life-giving oxygen in the air he breathes. The sunillumines the whole world by his light. What is the tax we pay for all these services? The offerings wemake to God is the tax.God does not ask for any offering of wealth or position. God is said to be pleased if a sincere devoteeoffers a leaf, a flower, a fruit or even water. What is this leaf? It is the body. The heart is the flower, themind is the fruit. The water that is to be offered is that from the tears of joy shed by the devotees. this iswhat God expects from you.The flower to be offered to God is a pure heart free from all taints and evil tendencies like lust, anger andpride. The fruit to be offered is a mind free from all bad thoughts and feelings. It should be filled with thesweet juice of goodness. The water that should be offered to God is the water that flows from the eyes outof joy in experiencing God. Tears are of two kinds: tears born of grief resulting from attachments; tearsspontaneously arising from Anaanda. Make God your life-breath, the sweetness of your existence.1. 10. 95God alone is an unfailing friend, who is with you at all times and protects you. When you cultivate such anattitude you can face any situation in life.22. 10. 95Who is God? The scriptures, the Vedhas and the Upanishads, give the answer to this question that God is‘Sath - chith- Aananda’. What you should seek from God, who is Sath-Chith-Aananda’, is ‘Sath-Chith-Ananda’ , and not trivial things relating to the world. All things are included in that Supreme Bliss. Whatis happening today is people invoke the name of God but are really worshipping the devil. All mundanedesires are associated with the devil and not with the Divine. The more desires are controlled, the moreblissful one will be.

People are used to making edible offerings to idols or pictures, but consume them after the ritual. Theseare not what should be offered to God. You should offer your Love to God as the food that God loves.Regard even this love as a gift from God. You offer to God what God has given to you.23. 10. 95The Divine is omnipresent. The entire cosmos is permeated and sustained by this Divine energy.Everyone should endeavour to experience the Divine. Man must make the effort and he is bound to realisethe experience. The necessary sacrifice must be made. All the bad qualities have to be renounced themoment they invade the mind.23. 11. 95God is not somewhere outside. He is the indweller in the body. Sin is the result of one’s own actions.Hence it is folly to seek God elsewhere.25. 12. 95It is essential to have faith in God. The five elements are manifestations of God. They are: the earth,water, fire, air and ether. In the earth God exists in the form of Awareness. In fire, God is in the form ofwakefulness. The Vedic warning is ‘Be awake’. In air, God exists as the vital breath. In ether (space)God pervades it as the primal sound, omkaara. Every element thus proclaims the manifestation of oneaspect of God.All beings experience the presence of the Divine through the five elements, the five senses and the five lifebreaths. Some may ask, ‘when the Divine is omnipresent and is in all beings, why is He not visible to us?’If investigation is made on right lines, God can be perceived. Some human effort is essential to get thisperception. Just as the reflection of the sun can be seen in all its purity only in clear and still water, thoughreflections may be noticed in ponds, wells and oceans, God can be perceived only when the heart is pureand unselfish. How can God be expected to appear before a person whose mind is wavering and hisoutlook is self centred? The wavering mind will experience only a hazy figure. In a steady mind, God willpresent a clear image.Love of God does not mean giving up your normal duties. In the performance of these duties, every actionshould be done as an offering to God. Look upon the body as a moving temple, wherein God resides.Recognise that God is always with you and around you.St Paul was an example of one who originally hated Christ but later become his foremost apostle. Whenyou show love towards all, even to those who dislike you, God will love you. Then you become a ‘Son ofGod’. You earn the right to inherit the Kingdom of God. You can become one with God.1. 1. 96What is the abode of God? The Lord told Narada: ‘I reside wherever my devotees sing my glories’ TheLord dwells in the hearts of devotees. This is His main address. All other places are ‘branch offices’.Any message addressed to the Divine Indweller in the heart is bound to reach God.All objects in the universe appear as different from each other, but the Divine principle in all of them is oneand the same. That Divine principle, which manifests the oneness underlying all objects, is called‘Dharmee’. This means that ‘Dharma’ is what unifies all apparently manifold objects.You can realise God only when you forget the phenomenal world and the body consciousnessYou cannot realise the Divine by immersing yourself in worldly concerns.14. 1. 96When one’s look is cnetred on the Lord, nothing untoward can happen. Even a mountain of danger willmelt away like ice if one’s thought are centred on God. This means that together with concern for worldlythings, there should be devotion to God.

People today speak about God having forgotten man. This is not true. God can never give up the devotee.It is the devotee who gives up God. God can never forget the devotee. It is the devotee who forgets God.God is never away from you. Only the devotee is away from God. You think that God is moving awayfrom you. Not at all. You forget God and declare that God has forgotten you. Your own feelings arereflected in your utterances.18. 1. 96What is meant by Sath-Chith-Ananda? Sath is ‘Being’, that which is eternal and unchanging. Sugar has thequality of sweetness, which remains in whatever form it may be used. For purposes of analogy, sugar maybe described as ‘Sath’. Chith may be compared to water. It has the quality of mobility. When sugar andwater are mixed, you have neither sugar nor water as such, but a new product, syrup. When ‘Sath’ and‘Chith’ come together, you have Ananda (Bliss). People imagine this bliss is to be found in jobs, marriage,children and so on. But happiness eludes you. The only enduring happiness is got by oneness with theDivine. The answer to the question, ‘when is happiness?’ is : ‘Happiness is union with God’.People should not under rate the powers present in the atmosphere. For instance, it is filled with radiowaves coming from different broadcasting centres. But the waves maintain their individual wavelength anddo not collide with the others. This electrical energy is divine. It is one of the secrets of creation.17. 2. 96Divinity is not easily perceived or realised. It is easy to talk about the Divine. It is easy to comment onthe miracles and sports of the Divine. But to understand them in their fulness is very difficult. To look atsomething evil and shout about like crows iss not a good thing. It is better to sing like the cuckoo oversomething good. Tastes differ from person to person. One man’s sweet is another man’s poison. Withsuch diverse tendencies, how can men recognise the Divine? The ancient sages of Bharat carried out manyspiritual investigations and through the study of scriptures proclaimed their experience of the Divine. TheUpanishads declared: The Divine is present in all things as their essence like sugar in sugarcane and butterin milk.God is present both in good and the bad, in truth and untruth, in merit and sin. That being the case, how isone to determine what is false and what is unrighteous? The Gita declares: ‘My Spirit is the indwelling spiritin all things’. The individual who realises this truth will experience equal mindedness.In a government there are different departments like education, finance, etc. Likewise in the spiritual fieldalso there are different departments. They are : Srishti (creation), Sthithi (Suatinance) and Layam(dissolution). Each department has a head. Each head has to govern hos department on right lines. Thereis an overload presiding over all departments. He is like the Prime Minister in a cabinet. He is God. Heis called Allah. By attributing different names and forms to God, Divinity is fragmented in various ways.The one Divine is responsible for the threefold cosmic process. This three aspects of God can be seen inthe English word GOD. G represents generation (Srishti). O represents Organisation (Sithithi). Drepresents Dissolution (Layam). GOD represents the unity of the three aspects. There is amisunderstanding about these three. ‘Layam’ is considered as destruction or dissolution. Its real meaningis mergence. O represents Organisation. It means protection. G stands for Generation (or creation).Brahma, Vishnu and Easwara are three potencies immanent in man. To understand this it is essential tofollow the spiritual path.God today is in search of good men. Every one should strive to be sincere in thought, word and deed.Then you need not go in search of God. God will discover you.GRACE

1953The Lord loves, not the bhaktha(devotee) but his Bhakthi, remember. The Lord's Grace is like rain, purewater, falling equally everywhere; but its taste gets changed according to the soil through which it flows.So also the Lord's words are sweet to some, bitter to others.Yajnas and Yagnas are performed to invoke the blessings of the Divine for the peace and well-being of theuniverse. When the Divine responds with grace, the well-being of all is ensured.24. 3. 58Be careful of at least this; do not yourself commit those faults of which you accuse others. Do not askothers to reach a standard which you are loathe to climb up to! If you live according to these two principles,then even if you do not fall before an image or attend the temple ritual or worship as per schedule, you canstill secure the Lord's Grace.Have faith in His Grace, and lead a virtuous life, a life devoted to the service of the weak; a life spent in thethought about the might and glory of God.Let the will of the Lord prevail, one's duty is but to connect oneself with the current of His grace.The Grace of the Lord is as the Ocean: vast, limitless.3. 9. 58The Goddess of Victory smiles only on the heroic, those who make lions themselves, hardy, brave andadventurous warriors. If you secure the Grace of God, you are reinforced with so much strength that youcan carry out even the most difficult tasks. So get the Lord on your side and draw upon His Grace for allyour needs25. 6. 60If you have the Grace of God, no planet can harm you; maleficient influences even from the most powerfulcombination of planets with which the astrologers terrify you will disappear in a trice. In order to get thatGrace, there are two prescriptions : speak lovingly so far as the world is concerned; and speak the Truth sofar as the next world is concerned. Love is the weapon: enqquiry is the wheel which must be revolvedperpetually to get the light of prema. Until prema emerges, you have to be in the darkness of hatred, whereeven the slightest movement creates fear and suspicion.27. 9. 60It is when you are in a desperate situation that you call upon the Lord, forgetting your pride and youregoism. The Paandavas were so full of misery in a worldly sense that they always had an attitude of prayer.If I had given you all the comforts and opportunities, you would not have come to Puttaparthi. Trouble isthe bait with which the fish is hauled out of the water. Kunthi asked the Krishna should continue giving herand her sons all kinds of misery so thta He may grant them His Grace continuously.27. 7. 61If you win the Grace of the Lord, even the decries of destiny can be overcome. There are certain drugswhich come in bottles on which the manufacturer has given an ultimate date beyond which the drug loses itsefficency. Of course, the drug will be in the bottle, but would no longer be effective. Similarly, Lord’sGrace can make it inoperative.21. 10. 61However great a hero you might be, whatever your prowess and intellect, devoid of the Grace of God, youdegenerate into a slave.6. 3. 62

Suffering entitles you more to the Grace of the Lord. When suffering comes in waves, one beyond theother, be glad that the shore is near; bear them bravely; do not like cowards throw the blame on someoutside Power or develop dislike for the Lord.8. 3. 62The Grace of the Lord will overwhelm all obstacles and fruit of saadhana will be vouchsafed. Once yousecure the grace, you can fulfil all your wishes with it.28. 4. 62To earn the goodwill of the Master, there is one recipe; obey His orders without murmur. I am telling youMy truth, notin self-praise, but so that you can understand Me. If I do not tell about Myself, who can?Grace is showered on all who obey instructions and follow orders.Winning the Grace of the Lord is as easy as making butter; that is why the heart of the Lord is compared tobutter. It is as soft as butter, they say. A little warmth is enough to melt it; a little warm affection shownto a suffering companion, a little warmth while pronouncing His name, turning it over on the tongue, so tosay. The Name is the spring of all the chaithanya (essence of the Supreme spirit) that you get byNaamasmarana; it is the life-giving nectar; it is the fountain of Primal Energy. Recite the Name and theNamed will be before you; picture the Named and the the Name will leep to your lips. they are the reverseand the obverse of the same coin, the Name and the Form.14. 1. 64The Lord is full of Grace that he will willingly guide and guard all who surrender to Him.12. 2. 64You have to come to Me, if not in this birth, at least withhin ten more births! Strive to acquire Grace; Graceis the reward for spiritual practice; the highest spiritual discipline is to follow the instructions of the Master.16. 4. 64The Grace of the Lord cannot be won by a little pretence of vairaagyam (non-attachment) or just a grain ofvivekam (discrimination). Know and act, realise and experience; that is the hard path. Surrender yourselfto His Will.23. 11. 64It is wrong to say the ‘Lalaatha likhitham’ (what is written on the forehead, is fate) cannot be wiped out; thatwhat one has earned in previous births must bu consumed in this birth. Grace can countermand all that;nothing can stand in its way. It is the grace of the ‘Almighty’, remember.When a severe pain torments you, the doctor gives you a morphine injection and you do not feel the pain,though iit is there in the body. Grace is like the morphine; the pain is not felt, though you go through it!Grace takes away the malignity of the Karma which you have to undergo.1. 4. 65Grace can wipe off the past; good self-effort, good company, good practices can ensure happiness in future.2. 4. 65You may say that the burden of past acts and their inevitable consequences have to be borne; but, the Graceof the Lord can burn that burden in a flash; the revelation of reality will, in a flash, save you from thatburden.6. 4. 65The tiny sparrow sits on the storm-tossed bough, because it knows that its wings are strong it does notdepend upon the tossing bough to sustain it. So too, rely on the Grace of God; earn it and keep it. Then,whatever the strength of the strom, you can survive it without harm

10. 4. 65When vices hold sway over your heart it becomes foul and sooty. The flames of kaama, krodha and lobha(desire, anger and greed) char the heart. Grace is proved by the quenching of these flames. Grace confessaanandham, which kaama, krodha and lobha can never confer.14. 7. 65Try to win Grace by reforming your habits, reducing your desires, and refining your higher nature. Onestep makes the next one easier; that is the excellence of the spiritual journey. At each step, your strengthand confidence increase and you get bigger instalments of Grace.27. 9. 65Just as you prescribe minimum qualifications for every profession, the minimum qualification for Grace issurrender of egoism, control over senses and regulated food and recreation.1966Knowledge in the wicked is power misused for the stratagenss of hate and greed. Grace too is power and ithas to be endowed on the deserving only. Therefore, character has to be sublimated into saturated pietyand devotion. Then only can Grace be secured.Every act has its consequence which cannot be escaped, except by the Grace of the Lord. The Grace of theLord can be won only by virtue and truth. So, develop sathya, dharma, shanthi and prema; cultivatevairaagya - non attachment to things and persons; remember death which is around the corner and time isfast fleeting away. Take recourse to the ways of liberation, before you are bound.Each individual must aspire for the Grace of God. That Grace will endow joy hare and hereafter. But,unhappy man gets involved in the agitations of his mind and intoxicates himself with ignorance and so hedenies himself the joy of basking in the Grace of God.23. 3. 66Like a lighted lamp, God’s Grace spreads all round, on all who approach Him and love to be near Him; butif you interpose a shade which shuts out the light from you, you have only yourself to blame if Grace doesnot shine. Open the doors of your heart, so that the Sun may shine through and disinfect the vices thereinand illumine its corners. You must initiate that little effort at least. The Sun will not open the doors andenter. To get the programme right and pleasantly you have to swith on and tune in the receiver. That is aninescapable sffort.27. 3. 66Individual effort and Divine Grace are both inter-dependent; without effort, there will be no confirment ofGrace; without Grace, there can be no taste in the effort. To win that Grace, you need only have faith andvirtue.Knock: the doors of Grace will open. open the door: the Sun’s rays waiting outside will flow silently inand flood the room with light.23. 5. 67Muscular power, mechanical power, political power, military power, scientific power - all are futile whenweighed with the power of Grace. Do not ask for futile gifts. Ask that Grace to give you what He knowsyou mostneed. Leave the nature of the gift to Him; it may be good fortune or bad; it may be pain or joy; itmay be dishonour or defeat. Leave it to Him; He knows best. Dedicate yourself to Him.11. 1. 68When you have filled your heart with sympathy for the distressed, the Lord will shower His Grace.If you have no steadfastness and no depth of faith, you can have no Grace.

28. 3. 68Holding the fan by the hand will not help; you must move it to and fro vogorously, in order to feel the coolbreeze that blows on your face. there is no breeze in the fan; it is all around you, everywhere, as air.Direct it towards yourself by spiritual practice. So too, direct the Grace of God that is everywhere, towardsyou and make yourself happy by saadhana. That is the advice you need and I give.29. 3. 68God’s Grace is as the shower of rain, as the sunlight. You have to do some spiritual practice ( saadhana) toacquire it, the saadhana of keeping a pot upright to receive the rain, the saadhana of opening the door ofyour heart, so that the sun may illumine it. Like the music that is broadcast over the radio, it is all roundyou; but you must switch on your receiver and tune the identical wave-length so that you can hear it andenjoy it. Pray for Grace; but do at least this little saadhana. Grace will set everything right. Its mainconsequence is sefl-realisation; but there are other incidental benefits too, like a happy contented life herebelow, and a cool courages temper, established in unruffled peace.The main benefit from a jewel is personal joy; but when one has come to the last coin in the purse, one cansell it and start life again! That is an incidental advantage. The plantain tree has the bunch of fruits as itsmain gift! But the leaves, the soft core of the trunk, the flower bed, these are subsidiary items, that can alsobe put to profitable use. this is the nature of Grace. It fulfils a variety of wants.13. 1. 69Yuo may say that progress is possible only through My Grace; but, though My Heart is soft as butter, itmelts only when there is some warmth in your prayer. Unless you make some disciplined effort, somesaadhana, Grace cannot descend on you. The yearning, the agony of unfulfilled aim melts My Heart. Thatis the anguish that wins Grace.19. 7. 70The Grace of Gos cannot be won by mere repetition of Hiis glories; utter the name of God, with its halo ofmeaning clear in the mind and soaking into your acts and feelings.15. 8. 70Grace is won by Saadhana and discipline and good character.22. 11. 70Base your activities on dharma, fill your hearts with Prema - then I will shower Grace and be ever with you.The spiritual adventure, the spiritual leap from darkness into light need extraodinary courage, and DivineGrace is the reward for courage.25. 12. 70Only those who can pour out compassion to fellow-men can claim a place in the Grace of God. This is alsothe highest spiritual discipline; it impresses on you the unity of the human community and the glory ofGod’s immanence.23. 11. 78Purity of heart and mastering over the senses - if you have these two credentials, Grace is your right.25. 1. 79Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge, with others less fortunate; that is the sweet means ofearning Divine Grace.13. 7. 80Once you slide into evil, there is no escape; you will be caught in the wheel of despair. Virtue alone willbring to you the Grace of God. Remember that nothing is so precious as Divine Grace.

12. 5. 81God has created each organ of the human body for a specific purpose. It is only when we use these sensoryorgans along the right path for which they have been created we will be entitled to God’s Grace.5. 81Give your best to whatever role is allotted to you. That is the way to earn Grace.31. 12. 83To secure the grace of the Divine, it is not necessary to seek knowledge, wealth, power or position. Purityof mind alone is enough. Every cell of one's body will be filled with the Divine when God is worshippedwith pure and single-minded devotion. To the self-sacrifing devotee, the Divine will be omnipresent.13. 1. 84It may not be possible to escape the consequences of one’s good and bad actions. But even a mountain ofsin can be wiped out by winning the Grace of the Divine. Hence one should strive to earn the love of God,whci is all-embracing and all-powerful.29. 2. 84The 'Chataka' bird is all alert to drink the first few nectarine rain-drops that fall from the cloud. It does notallow either the fearsome typhoon or the reverberations of thunder or the blinding flashes of lightning oreven disastrous bolts from the clouds to distract its concentration. The Sadheka, too, should in the samemanner fill his heart with the yearning for God and await His nectarine grace of Love, not being distractedor disturbed by the joy and grief, profit and loss, honour and dishonour, that pummel him from all sides, orby the ridicule, the opposition or even hatred directed on him by his parents, kinsmen and companions.23. 3. 85In the cycle of Natute, bad is likely to be followed by good and vice versa. Hence we must cultivate thestrength and equanimity to face difficulties and troubles. Only the grace of God can give this strength andcourage.5. 12. 85When some friends, well-wishers or relatives place a gift-article in our hands, we accept it gladly, though itdoes not please us, because our acceptance pleases them. When the gift pleases us, our reaction is hearty.We treasure it and are filled with it. Know that God too reacts in the same way to what man offers Him.When the offering is tainted, He may accept in order to satisfy the longing of the devotee, or sadkek. Butwhen the offering pleases Him by its purity and sincerity, He welcomes it and His joy translates itself asabundant Grace. So, one has to discover and decide on the offering that gives Hime delight and one isblessed thereby with Grace.2. 8. 86Most devotees seek health, wealth, power and fame from God, which are all trivial assets yieldingmomentary pleasure. Divine grace can confer the most precious gift of His Love. Man may assert withthe pride of achievement that he loves God. That takes him only half-way through. He does not gainmuch therefrom. Does God respond with 'me priyo narah', 'he is dear to me' ? Only then man can claim tohave achieved Grace.How can man become 'dear' to God ? The Gita emphasises two qualifications : ever contented and withfirm resolve. He has to be contented and cheerful always, without regard for the changing tides of fortune.20. 5. 95The Divine alone knows when and whom to bless, for what reason and where and in what form. you haveto seek the Divine’s grace in the right form, at the proper time and place. This calls for discriminationregarding time and circumstances. This is mostly absent today. This discrimination is called ‘constantIntegrated Awareness’.7. 7. 95

If you can earn Swami’s Grace then everything will be added unto you and you will be happy here andhereafter. Whatever work is being done by you, do it with utmost sincerity. Always use polite languageand speak sweetly.8. 7. 95To earn the grace to the Divine, the easy way is surrounding at the Feet of the Lord.12. 7. 95All are entitled to receive God’s grace according to their merits. It is like drawing upon a bank accordingto what you have deposited with it. There are three ways of getting money from a bank. One is drawingon your deposit. In spiritual terms, this means realising the fruits of your past actions. The second meansis raising a loan on the security of your assets. This corresponds to the grace you get by your currentdeeds. The Third menas to get money from a bank is to have a good surety for the loan you wish to raisefrom the bank. Spiritually, this corresponds to securing God’s grace through the medium of a guru.14. 10. 95All over the world men are perpetually haunted by fears of every kind because they have not secured thefreedom from fear which God alone can give. God's grace alone can free men from fear. All shouldstrive to secure Divine grace by developing firm faith in God. You may worship any forn, chant anyname, but have firm faith in God. Call the Divine by any name - Rama, Krishna, Allah, Jesus or Buddha -all names are the same, the one Lord is adored by different names.GRATITUDE25. 2. 64Have gartitude to the Creator who poured into you the nectar that ensures immortality; He requires you tostand firm in the face of joy and grief. Even animals exhibit gratitude; not only the pet animals, but wildones, like the lion.16. 10. 64Gratitude is a quality that is fast disappearing in human relations; it is a heinous sin to neglect thisobligation.2. 3. 65Man is worse than even a dog, for he forgets favours received; he denies his master; he trusts the ear, eventhough the eye believes the ear. He behaves as if he has two tongues; when he praises to the sky today, hebelittles and disbelieves the next. The dog knows its master, whatever role he may put on in the play -king, servant, clown. It is grateful for the leavings on your plates, which it is allowed to lick after yourdinner. But, man has no gratitude even for the amirtha he gets.10. 4. 65Ingratitude is the hall-mark of wild beasts, not of man. Man today is all humility, all obedience until hiswish is fulfilled. Once it is satisfied, he tries even to ruin the person who helped him realise it. This doesnot befit man. He must be conscious of benefits derived and eager to repay the debt, or at least, eager toavoid causing harm to the person who saved him while in distress.6. 5. 85To have the qualities and lead the life of a human being with the name, one must develop pure, unselfish,unbounded love. Man derives many lands of benefits from animals, birds, plants and trees. They do notconfer these benefits out of any self-interest or the desire for reward. Man enjoys these benefits withoutdisplaying any sense of gratitude today man not only does not help others but even harms himself by hisactions. He is thereby dehumanising himself.23. 11. 85

The grateful person will treasure as a gift even the smallest service, but, the ungrateful forgets the gift,however valuable, and even renders disservice to the giver.25. 12. 85We are all aware of the kind of selfless service which birds, animals and trees are rendering to man. Butwe see many men who out of selfishness are not only ungrateful to their community, their parents and theirGurus, but even to God. Such persons can never come to anything good. They do not realise the truth ofthe saying, ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’. If you have good thoughts and do good deeds, they multiplylike good seeds sown in a well-manuered field. But if you fill your heart with bad feelings, bad thoughtswill multiply many-fold.24. 6. 89Every individual has a responsibility to society, from which he derives so many benefits. Society is basedon the principle of mutual give and take. Your primary duty is to show your gratitude to your parents, yourkith and kin, your friends, teachers and others who have helped you in various ways to make you what youare.26. 6. 89Man's life is like a garland, with birth at one end and death at the other. Between these two ends are strungtogether flowers of all kinds, troubles, worries, joys, sorrows and dreams. Few men are aware of the stringthat runs through all the flowers. Without the string there can be no garland. Only the person whorecognises the string can become a real man. This string is called the Divine string. The Divine Atmaprinciple is the string which is found in all human beings and which is the source of all the potencies inthem.Students! Gratitude is a cardinal virtue. You must be grateful to all those who have helped you in yourlives. You may earn money by your efforts. There is nothing wrong. But it must be spent in righteousways.25. 12. 91The foremost quality every human being should have is gratitude without it, man ceases to be human.because today men have ceased to cherish gratitude that they have become a prey to many ills.It is10. 5. 92Gratitude is a great virtue. When the power of gratitude is realised, it will be seen that it can give benefitsmuch more than anyone can imagine. If out of narrow mindedness, men become ungrateful, they willsuffer grievously. If such is the case in regard to purely human relationships, how much rewardinggratitude can be when it is offered to God?GREED14. 1. 70Greed is the montrous evil that drags man down.Greed arises from attachment to the senses and catering to them.windows for knowledge, not channels of contamination.Put them in their proper place; they are30. 8. 78It is the greed to earn money by any means, as fast as possible, that has led to the evils that we see in societytoday. Money breeds pride, pride fosters hatred.

22. 11. 79Greed for money is a demon that gets hold of the weak. When one is overcome by it, one loses all trace ofdiscrimination and accepts with ease, wrongful ways of satisfying it.30. 2. 82Limit your greed, your superfluous desires and try to be simple in dress, speech and behaviour with others.When a man was offered free all the land he could walk around from sunrise to sunset, the poor fellowwalked so fast and so long that he died before he could reach the starting point. That is the fate of thegreedy.11. 7. 95When man overcomes greed, he can secure happiness. A greedy man cannot enjoy bodily, mental orspiritual happiness. The miser is like the dog in the manger. He neither enjoys his wealth, nor does heallow others to enjoy it. The world despises a miser.23. 11. 95The Ramayana points out the disastrous consequences of the lust. The Mahabharata teaches that goodbrings utter disaster. The Bheagavatham shows the consequence of hatred towards God (Hiranyakasipu'sexample).GUNAS12. 9. 84The most important cause for the three gunas is the mind. It is impossible to rise above our human natureand realise our divine nature until the mind is transformed. We have to offer our mind to the Lord. Oncewe surrender our mind to God completely He will take care of us in every way.GURU1. 8. 56The Guru is the physician for the illness which brings about the suffering of alternate birth and death. He isan adept at the treatment needed for the cure. If you do not get such a Guru, pray to the Lord Himself toshow you the way . . . and He will surely come to your rescue.25. 3. 58Examine the Guru and his credentials, his ideals and practice before accepting him. Even in my case, donot be attracted simply by stories of what I `create' by a wave of the hand. Do not jump to conclusions withclosed eyes; watch, study and weigh. Never yield to anyone unless you feel the inner satisfaction that youare on the right path.He who is firmly fixed in the faith that this world is a mirage of the mind, he alone is the Swami.13. 7. 84The true Guru is one, who has no ego or selfishness, and who can raise the sishya to his own level.Dressing a saffron robe, mouthing a few mantras and expounding some texts are the signs of many gurusthese days. The signs of a true guru are large heartedness, absolute selflessness, purity in living, freedomfrom acquisitiveness, absence of envy and equal mindedness in his conduct towards everyone. Freedomfrom envy is an essential quality in a guru or sishya, because envy is the root cause of many evils.

The Guru’s role is to lead the sishya on the Godward path. He must teach the sishya the true purposewhich each of his sense organs is to be used - his eyes, his tongue and his limbs. All the senses are to beused for discovering and experiencing the Divine.12. 9. 84The entire world is a manifestation of the three gunas. Of these three, Rajo and Thamo gunas are thesource of trouble. For all sorrows, grief, trouble and problems, these two gunas are responsible. There aresix attributes for Thamo guna - sleep, drowsiness, fear, anger, laziness and inertia.A farmer who wants to raise a crop in the field has to remove, at the outset, the weeds from his field. Ifdifferent types of weeds grow, the crop will be affected adversely. Removing the weeds is an essential preconditionfor getting a good crop. In the same way, a sadhaka who wants to realise ‘Atmananda’ (the joyof Atma), has to remove from his heart the various manifestations of Rajo and Thamo gunas in the form ofmalice, desire, greed, anger, hatred and jealousy. These six types of enemies of man are the children ofRajo and Thamo gunas. We won’t be able to experience the joy of Atma as long as these weeds are there.As long as Rajo and Thamo gunas are there, the heart is not pure. These two gunas will go on pollutingand dirtying the heart. Therefore, to begin with, remove the Thamo and Rajo gunas. Make every effort toremove the dirt from your heart.A person who is full of Rajo guna will always be in a hurry. In everything, he exhibits undue haste. Hehas a lot of anger in him and develops unlimited desires. He cannot keep still even for a moment. Theseare the features of Rajo guna.If you go to zoo and watch the animals - be it a tiger, a fox or any other animal - you will find that they donot keep still for a moment. They are continually moving. The reason is that they have Rajo guna. IfRajo guna enters the heart of man, it makes him move all the time. It doesn’t merely make the personrestless but makes him deluded as well. Not merely does he become deluded, but he goes on desiringobjects, desiring everything in the world, and thereby becoming more and more deluded and restless. So,restlessness, desire and delusion are the three important features of Rajo guna.When you enter the kingdom of Liberation, you will have to remove Sathwa guna also. Vedanta teachesthat we must transcend these three gunas. If a thorn were to prick your foot, to remove it you do not need aknife; another thorn would be enough to help you remove it. Once you have removed the thorn, you couldthrow away both the thorns. In the same way, with the help of Rajo guna, you have to remove Thamo gunaand with the help of Sathwa guna, you must remove Rajo guna.Before you can enter the mansion of Brahmananda (the bliss of oneness with Brahman) you have to cast offall these three gunas. As long as you have gunas, you won’t be able to experience bliss. That is whyKrishna commanded Arjuna to transcend all three gunas.21. 7. 86There are eight types of Gurus: 1) Bodha guru, 2) Veda Guru, 3) Nishiddha Guru, 4) Kaamya Guru, 5)Vaachaka Guru, 6) Soochaka Guru, 7) Kaarana Guru, 8) Vihita Guru.Bodha Guru teaches the sastras and encourages the pupil to act up to sastric injunctions.The Veda Guru imparts the inner meaning of the Vedas, establishes the pupil in spiritual truths and turns hismind towards God.The Mishiddha Guru imparts knowledge about rites and shows how one’s welfare here and hereafter can beensured.The Kaamya Guru makes one engage himself in meritorious deeds to secure happiness in both the worlds.Vaachaka Guru imparts knowledge of yoga and prepares the disciple for the spiritual life.Soochaka Guru teaches how the senses are to be controlled through various types of discipline.Kaarana Guru reveals the unity of the Jivi and the Atma.The Vihita Guru clears all doubts, purifies the mind and shows how self-realisation can be attained.

Of these eight Gurus, the Kaarana Guru is the foremost. Through various teachings and practices, he helpsthe individual to progress from the human to the divine consciousness. Only the divine can act as such ateacher. All other Gurus can be helpful only to a limited extent.HAPPINESS1. 9. 58The chief source of aanandha is dedication to God; nothing else can give that genuine and lasting joy.Become conscious of your kinship with the Lord. It has come down since ages, from the begining of Timeitself. It will persist till the very end of Time, or, in other words, till the end of Time so far as you areconcerned.2. 9. 58Real Aanandha(Bliss) can be won only by means of the transformation of the impulses which agitate themind. It is not to be found in wealth. You think that the rich man is happy; ask Me, and I shall reveal toyou that they are full of grief for they come to Me in large numbers for relief. They have no peace at all.A strong physique does not by itself give peace, nor does scholarship, or asceticism or rituals. Onlyconstant dwelling with the Name of the Lord gives that unshakeable Peace, unaffected by the ups anddowns of life. It makes a man a hero.10. 10. 61Joy is a subjective feeling; it is not inherent in the objective world. You are the witness, separate from thescene; you are the seer, not the scene.21. 10. 61Full happiness consists of auspicious conversation, auspicious thoughts, auspicious deeds.18. 8. 64Grief and joy are the obverse and reverse of the same experience. Joy is when grief ends; grief is when joyends. When you invite a blind man for dinner, you must set on the table two plates, for he comes alongwith another man who will lead him in. Grief and joy are inseparable companions.19. 8. 64Aanandha (joy) is an inner treasure, won by detachment and discipline.19. 8. 65Feel that you are the Lord’s own. Then, the work will not tire, it will be done much better; it will yieldmore satisfaction; and, the wages? The master will maintain you in bliss. What more can any one aspirefor? Leave the rest to Him, He knows best; He is All; the joy of having Him is enough reward. This is thesecret of human happiness. Live out your lives on these lines and you will never come to grief.20. 2. 66Joy is what one derives from one’s own mind; when the mind is vicious, it derives joy from vicious things.When it is pure, only purity can give it joy.Apr 66Lasting happiness, happiness that will not be shaken or diminished or modified by good fortune or bad, cancome only by the discipline of the mind and faith in a Higher Power that guides all the deeds and words andthoughts of man. The lamp of that spiritual awareness has to be lit and fed, so that the footsteps of man cantake that path and proceed unharmed.3. 8. 66

Happiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well, clothed well, housed well and even educated uptoa high standard and employed under comfortable conditions, with no injury to health or security. There aremany who have all these in plenty but who are yet worried or in pain or discontented. They depend on theinner equipment of man, not on his outer skill or riches.23. 9. 66Search for the joy in the inner vision; set it right and you can discover it there.10. 9. 69Expansion is the key to happiness, and Love is the unfailing key to expansion.23. 7. 70What is happiness? It is the state of mind, which is unaffected by fortune good or bad. By systematiceducation, the mind can attain that state. If activity is done as worship, then, the mind will be steady andfree from anxiety.25. 9. 79Happiness, prosperity and power are but flashes amidst the dark clouds of misery, poverty and defeat. Kithand Kin of whom we are proud and in whom we lay our trust succumb to death and depart without a wordof farewell. But, we do not learn the lesson; we cling to the belief that the outer world is the treasure-chestof peace and joy.27. 7. 80Engage yourselves in Saadhana, without delay or dilatoriness. Cultivate virtues; be free from evil habits,thoughts, words and deeds. Grow in love and greet Nature with Love. This is the way to Aanandha.5. 4. 81Happiness can be won only through misery. Pleasure is but an interval between two pains. To achieve theSaathwick happiness that is positive and permanent, man must perforce take on trials and tribulations, lossand pain.8. 4. 81Man struggles variously to attain Aanandha. Aanandha is the height of happiness, the embodiment of joy.It is sought in three different ways, according to the innate quality of the seeker - the Saathwick, the rajasikand the thaamasik. The Saathwick path is poison in the early stages and nectar while coming to frution. Itinvolves firm control and regulation of the senses, of cognition and action. This will be very hard toaccomplish. But as one progresses in practice, the joy increases and bliss is attained. In the Raajasik path,in the early statges, this path is nectarine but later, it slides into misery, foor the happiness is derivedthrough the senses from the objects of the external world. The pleasure soon reveals itself as unreal, falseand exhausting. Once the process starts, it drags on with no facility for rest. Man becomes too weak topursue the goal of dharma (righteousness) artha (prosperity) kaama (wish -fulfilment) and moksha(liberation) which are laid down for him. His intellect, imaginative skill, intuitive faculty - all are renderedlame. Man can even lose his human-ness. The blind pursuit of objective sensual pleasures has todayresulted in this very calamity. Man has forgotten his true Divinity and surrendered his life to unholyactivities. In the thamasick path people who prefer this way of life are unconcerned with the problems ofthe world; they sleep away their lives, deriving joy in sloth and darkness.Of these three paths towards the goal of Aanandha, man must accept the saathwick road, whatever theharship, the loss, the misery, the anxiety and the labour. He must attain the awareness of Divinity, theexperience of Godhead and be established in the Aanandha.13. 4. 81Control gives power; regulation gives greater strength; discipline reveals divinity. People pine forhappiness. But, can one gain it by allowing a free rrein to the senses? Can one be happy eating four mealsa day or riding prestigious car or living in many-roomed bungalows? No. Happiness consists in helping

others. It is brought about by giving up, not by hoarding. Catering to the senses makes man bestial. Theywill drag him into dirt and disgrace.28. 5. 82Joy has to be churned from grief. Pleasure is a product of pain.25. 12. 82The yearning for Bliss is the best proof of our holy nature. Man is Bliss; he seeks Bliss; Bliss isBlessedness for him. Since God is Bliss, happiness is union with God. Nothing else can award that joy,which is unaffected by whatever happens or does not happen.22. 3. 85Happiness is union with God. We must link our happiness with the Divine.26. 5. 85For real happiness you must have a large and lovong heart.27. 9. 87Every man seeks to achieve unalloyed happiness through some means or other and engages himself inceaseless efforts for this purpose. But pure happiness eludes him because he does not know its real natureand where to find it. Ananda (bliss) cannot be found in the phenomenal world or in material objects likehouses, wealth and vehicles or got from kith and kin. When the bliss that he is seeking is his own truenature, what is the use in seeking it elsewhere?Happiness and misery are but the reflections of the good and bad which fill your heart and shape youractivities.Happiness is only an interval between two miseries. Misery is only the gap between two moments ofhappiness. You must equate both happiness and misery and transcend both, teaching the mind to dive deepinto the realms of bliss.Heaven is not in some remote place.paradise.When people are virtuous and of good character, you will findMan has to live in faith to experience happiness. Where there is happiness there is peace.The best way to gain happiness is to choose God as the leader and guide. Then He will guide and guard,from the heart itself.The face is a reflection of the inner being. Whatever thoughts and emotions fill a man, they are reflected inhis face.To be active, yet being always aware that it is all mere acting, is the secret of happiness.True happiness consists in realising one's reality. Men today are keen to know all about everything exceptthemselves. They are able to see everything except their own true selves. They are caught up in thedelusion that the world is different from the One that sustains it. Although what they are seeing is themanifestation of God, they declare that they cannot see God. This is the result of ignorance. All that isseen, the act of seeing and the seer are all Divine. When the unity of this triune aspect of Divinity isunderstood, real bliss will be experienced.23. 11. 88Any kind of worldly pleasure is temporary and it cannot give the lasting happiness.Be happy. Make others happy. All will be happy. God will be happy.

Happiness is an interval between two pains. The sour rind that covers an orange protects the sweet juiceinside. We must look upon pain, anxiety and sorrow as the protecting cover for the peace and bliss that isexperienced later.The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do.6. 2. 93Happiness arises out of union with God. Because there is lack of faith in God elsewhere, there is grief.21. 7. 93For all the experiences in the world relating to pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, the cause is me. All thetroubles one experiences are stepping stones to happiness. This is the essence of Vedanta.Hence, for man, the proper spiritual sadhana consists in cultivating equal-mindedness. Withoutsuccumbing to grief or getting elated over a happy event.10. 8. 93Happiness cannot be got without going through difficulties. Fame is the product of blame.11. 7. 95True happiness consists in manifesting all the potentialities in man. When you put into practice all thesacred thoughts that emanate from your mind you will realise true happiness. Most people do not practicethe sacred impulses that arise in them with the result that they do not experience the bliss within them.21. 11. 95Realise that true true happiness consists in union with God.14. 1. 96Today people derive only physical fitness and strength from taking part in sports and games. But man isnot the body alone. Fulfilment in life is not attained by physical health and strength alone. Even when thestomach is full, the mind must get satisfaction. Hence, efforts should be made to promote mental healthalso. Only when both the mind the nody are hake and well can one experience happiness.18. 2. 96Bliss is not something apart. As long as sublime thoughts, noble feelings fill their hearts, they willexperience bliss. Every thought arises from the heart. When the heart is filled with love, every thoughtand feeling becomes loving.HATRED23. 11. 65Sai is in all. When you hate another, you are hating Sai; when you hate Sai; you are hating yourself.When you inflict pain on another, remember that the other is yourself, in another form, with another name.29. 7. 69It is a wrong against God, this Omnipresent Divine, to hate lliving beings, to injure them, that is to say, it isas bad as hating and injuring oneself - the reason being that the injurer is as much a living being with Godas his core, as the injured.13. 7. 84Relying on differences in physical and intellectual abilities man develop hatred towards each other. Whensuch hatred grows in society, corrective measures have to be taken.6. 9. 84

If a registered letter is addressed to some one, who declines to receive it, the postal department will deliverit back to the sender. Similarly, if you criticise someone or hate somebody, if the other person remainsunaffected and unperturbed, your criticism and hatred come back to you. Jealousy and hatred do moreharm to those who entertain these feelings than to those towards whom these are expressed.25. 12. 84Those who hate others are ultimately consumed by their own hatred. Those filled with envy ultimatelymeet their end in it.The animosity which some persons show towards good and godly people can be traced to one or other ofthese factors. In the first category are those who have no faith in God or goodness and hence opposeanything that is good or godly. In the second category are those who turn against God because their desiresor ambitions have not been fulfilled. The third category are those who are envious by nature and cannottolerate anything good. Other than these three types, there is a fourth composed of persons who think ofGod or seek God’s favour when they are in trouble or difficulties and who forget God immediately aftertheir troubles are over or their desires have been fulfilled.22. 3. 85Anger and hatred are demonic qualities. Envy is worse than either of them. You must get rid of thesedemonic qualities and attune your life to divinity. When anyone reviles you, do not retort in the same way.You then descend to the level of the other man. You should not do yourself what you consider bad inothers. You must strive to develop sacred qualities for your entire life.HEALTH21. 9. 60Moderation in food, moderation in talk, and in desires and pursuits; contentment with what little can be getby honest labour, eagerness to serve others and to impart joy to all - these are the most powerful of all thetonics and health - preserves known to the science of health, the Sanaathana: Aayur - Vedhic; the Vedha ofthe full life.By regulating your diet and avoiding bad habits, you can preserve health. Moderate food, and food ofSaathwick type, will promote mental poise and also physical happiness. Moderation in food is always to bewelcomed. If you do not smoke, you escape a number of illnesses that follow that Rajasic (passionate)practice. Any intoxicant or stimulant, because it disturbs nature’s even trend, is harmful.23. 9. 65Regulate food habits; restrain the greed of tongue. Eat only Saathwick or pure food; engage yourselvesonly in Saathwick recreations. Then you can be free from physical and mental ill-health. Bear calumny,loss, disappointment, defeat, boldly and with equanimity; then, no mental depression can over-whelm you.26. 9. 65Illnesses are caused not so much by the food people eat or the conditions in which they live, but by mentalweakness and mental attitudes, prejudices and predilections. Desires, disappointments, despair - these alsocause diseases. For many illnesses, filling the mind with the thought of God is the curative drug. For therest, regimented diet, sleep, pastimes and activities are effective cures.Another method of avoiding illness is to diminish mental worry. Now, I find people are increasing theirworries, and getting anxious about things that they do not understand; nor can they correct them or reformthem. The radio, the newspaper and other means of communication or information cause so much fear anddiscontent, that worry and anxiety are increased and the mind of man gets weakened. Parents talk abouttheir anxiety before their children and so, they start worrying.

Fear is the biggest cause for illness.Resolve that relying on His Grace, you shall be free from illness from this moment. Transfer the faith thatyou have in drugs to God; put your trust, not in medicine, but in Maadhava27. 9. 65Illness is caused more by malnutrition of the mind than of the body. Doctors speak of vitamin deficiency; Iwill call it the deficiency of Vitamin G, and I will recommend the repetition of the Name of God, withaccompanying contemplation of the glory and grace of God. That is the Vitamin G. That is the medicine;regulated life and habits are two - thirds of the treatment, while the medicine is just one-third only.Mar 66The purpose of Fast is spending time in the contemplation of God and not simplypunishing the body bycutting a meal or a series of meals. Vows, vigils, fasts etc alnog with all bends of voluntarilt imposed orinvoluntarily suffered hardships are to be looked upon as prompting spiritual strength, not as weakeningphysical stamina. They dig around the roots and make the plant grow fast. They clip the wayward twigsand make the tree tall and truly trim.12. 10. 69Disease means feeling uneasy, disturbed, on account of the upsetting of one’s temper or balance orequilibrium, which affects the physical as well as mental condition. This happens for two reasons: faultyfood and faulty activities.It is wise to prevent disease than run after remedies after it has happened or grown beyond control. Mandoes not attend to precautionary measures; he allows things to worsen and then the disease is aggravated byfear, uncertainty and anxiety.Fast one day in the week. This is good for the body as well as for the country. Do not eat a dozenplantains, half a dozen puris and drink a quart of milk and call it a fast! Take only water, so that all the dirtis washed away. Do not crave for fruit juice or other liquids. Even physical machinery is given rest; theycannot run for ever, continuously. What then shall we say of this delicately organised human body! It isnot a sign of culture to overvalue the body, by over indulging in its whims. It is a sign of barbarism.Illness is the inevitable result of idleness and indulgence; health is the inevitable consequence of a toughhard life. If every one decides to carry on all personal services themselves, rather than depend on servantsor helpers, the health situation will definitely improve and hospitals will have much less work.Keeping the mind fixed on God and good ideas and things also helps health. Keep the eye, ear, tongue,hands and feet under restraint. Don’t read eenervating or exciting stuff; don’t attend film shows whichexhaust or inflame the mind. Don’t lose faith in yourself, you are the Divine encased in the body.Do not spend much thought on the body; some people worry always about health, and they are neversatisfied with the care they bestow on the body. Be in the sun; let the sun’s rays penetrate into the home,let them fall upon the body for sometime, let them warm and illumine clothes and food; that will suffusethem with health.28. 8. 76Food and recreational habits are the two main causes for ill-health. Great care has to be bestowed to ensurethat injurious tendencies do not affect these two. . . .it is also necessary to keep the environment of the place where one works and lives, unpolluted by smiko,dust or dirt.13. 7. 80A snese of elation and exultation keeps the body free from ill-health. Evil habits in which man indulge arethe chief cause of disease, physical as well as mental. Greed affects the mind; disappointment makes man

depressed. Man can justify his existence as man only by the cultivation of virtues. Then, he becomes aworhty candidate for Godhead.A healthy heart is the temple of God. Its health is proportionate to the purity of the food taken and thepurity of one’s thoughts, words and deeds. Moderate food and moderate speech are the twin boons oneshould win by one’s own exertion.9. 80The body is the boat on which we voyage across the ocean of samsaar (worldly life) and it has to be kepttrim and sea-worthy. The voyager too has to be strong, confident and courageous.30. 9. 81Health is necessary for gaining this world and the next, for earning worldly and other worldly progress, torealise the very purpose for which the self- has embarked itself in this human form, namely, to becomeaware of its source. , the Paramaathma. In order to attain this goal, the ideals of righteousness, prosperity,moral desire and release from grief have to be practised with the help of a sound mind in a sound body.What are the main causes of ill-health? Millions of living beings grouped as specious dwell on earth; theysustain themselves by means of food secured from Nature, as provided by Nature. It is only man that is anexception. In order to cater to his palate and other senses, he changes the composition and characteristicsof the things provided by nature and prepares, through process of boiling, frying and mixing, concretionswhich have no vitality in them. Birds and beasts do not adopt such destructive methods. They eat thingsraw and consume the strength giving vital essence. So, they do not fall victim to the many ills that manbrings on himself.Evil thoughts cause ill-health. Anxiety, fear and tension also contribute their share. All these result fromgreed, greed to have more of things, of power and of fame. Greed results in sorrow and despair.Contentment can come only from a spiritual outlook. The desire for worldly goods has to be given up.One should not distinguish between ‘my work’ and ‘work for God’. All work should be worship.Whatever the reward, it is the gift of God. It is for our lasting good. If this attitude is developed, sufferingand pain can toughen us and help us to progress towards Divinity.It is best to preserve one’s health by good thoughts and good deeds. It is best to be vigilant about foodhabits Coconut kernel, coconut water, sprouting pulses, uncooked or half cooked vegetables, and grreensare good for health.Most illnesses can be cured by simple living, simple exercises and by intelligent control of the tongue.20. 11. 82Food habits are of primary importance when health has to be secured and maintained. When these are notregulated, health suffers. ‘No restraint, no success’ is the axiom. A restless mind is another importantsource of ill-health. Man is constantly afflicted with some source of worry or other. He is never free fromanxiety.Why? Because he is identifying himself with the body.How did he acquire this body? Through his past activities and deeds.What were they caused by? By the twin pulls of love and hate.How did they originate? They were born out of the entanglement in duality, in the opposites.And, Why does he get snared at them? Ignorance of the Truth, the ONE.Health does not depend on medicine. Good words, good manners, good sight, good thoughts - these areessential. What can even powerful or costly medicines do if one is ill with bad thoughts and bad feelings?On the other hand, virtuous living, beneficial thoughts, elevating ideals and righteous conduct can confernot only health but what is even more precious, Aathmaanantha, the Ecstatic Awareness of the Reality itself.18. 12. 85

A caveat should be said about heart transplant. The operation may be easy, but how easy is it to get a heartfor transplanting? A transplanted heart may serve for a time, but cannot serve as long and as well as the God- given heart.A word of caution has to be uttered with regard to heart transplant or transplanting the cornea for the eye.The character of the person from whom the transplanted heart or cornea has been got should also be takeninto account. The practioners of medicine in ancient times considered those factors in treating patients.6. 2. 93The main causes of heart troubles may be said to be hurry, worry and curry. Curry means fatty foods.Heart diseases are found to be more rampant among non-vegetarians while vegetarians are not prone toheart ailments to the same extent. This is because of higher percentage of fats in non-vegetarian foodwhich increases the cholestral in the food.Woory causes high blood pressure and hurry causes diabetes. Both of them are like twins, one acting onthe heart inside and the other externally on the blood.It is only by sensse control and stradfastness that one can lead a happy and healthy life. Along with controlof the mind, one should control the temper and avoid tension. Prevention of disease should be the goal.21. 1. 94The observance of the three 'p's, namely purity, patience and perseverance vouchsafes permanent happinessand good health free from diseases.I is only unbridled passion which damages the health of man. Living on ill-gotten money also causes illhealthto some extent. Living on earnings got by unjust means causes many unknown diseases to take rootin us. It is said,As is the food, so is the mind;As is the mind, so are the thoughts;As are the thoughts, so is the conduct;As is the conduct, so is the health.Man today is a victim of worry. What is the cause of this worry? Lack of contentment is the cause. Therich man is not contented in spite of the accumulation of wealth. Worry causes hurry and both togetherbring about ill-health. So, worry, Hurry and Curry (fatty foods) are the root cause of cardiac ailments.The consumption of large quantities of fat is the cause of cardio-vascular diseases. Doctors advise againstthe consumption of fatty food-stuffs which cause increase in weight resulting in susceptibility to cardiacdiseases. The presence of toxins also inflicts equal damage. So one should eat in moderate quantity theright type of food and avoid intoxicating drinks to safeguard his health.The intake of food should be gradually reduced after crossing 50 years.indiscriminately unmindful of the calorie content of the food taken.Some people consume foodDoctors should win the harts of patients by talking to them with compassion and concern. Diseases are halfcured when the doctors talk to the patients with love and consideration. The sick and the diseased respondfavourably to your treatment once you start talking to them with love and with a smiling face. But, if youwear a grim expression, the patient loses heart.Doctors should first and foremost have faith in spirituality.transformation of humanity.Faith in spirituality alone can bring about22. 11. 94The body is given only to do righteous deeds. As it is the instrument for action, it should be maintained inproper condition. Because of the anxiety and worry to which man is subjecting himself his health isaffected. The causes of cardiac trouble are ‘hurry, worry and curry. ’ By ‘hurry’, the system is made to

work abnormally fast, which affects the heart. Worry also causes ailments such as ulcer, etc. By eatingbeyond limit the fatty food, the cholestral level is increased causing heart trouble. By controlling foodhabits and avoiding excessive stress and strain, one can maintain good health.11. 7. 95Every persons physical, mental and spiritual health is ruined by bad qualities, bad thoughts and badfeelings. Hence, cultivate good thoughts good feelings and good attitudes. Expel every bad thought as itarises in the mind.18. 12. 95Health is essential for the body. A healthy mind can exist only in a healthy body. Only a man with ahealthy mind will take part in joyous activities.HEART20. 9. 88God will not reside in a heart filled with fraud and falsehood. These must be expelled from the heart.Purifying the heart is the highest form of worship. Only then can the Divine be experienced and the bliss ofthat experience can be shared with others.The seat of all bliss is the heart. Vibrations emanate from the heart. These vibrations proclaim the Lord'sname. There is no need to engage in any sadhana (spiritual discipline) if the power of the Lord's name isunderstood.HINDUISM (includes Sanathana Dharma)3. 9. 88Bharatiyas have held fast to three beliefs:1 the law of Karma,2 the concept of Avatar,3 the doctrine of rebirth.The law of Karma means that there is no escape from the consequences of your actions. The concept ofAvatar implies faith in God and in the divinity inherent in man.24. 3. 58Wherever Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema [Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love] are emphasised, inwhatever religion or language, by whichever teacher wherever he may be, there we have Sanathana Dharma[the Eternal Gospel].24. 3. 58The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.HUMAN VALUESCultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raisedin your heart and should be shared with others.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone hasultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to theservice of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicatedservice.So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on theLord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share inthe sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyondthe temporary gains and losses of this world.The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.Wherever Sathya [Truth], Dharma [Righteousness], Santhi [Peace] and Prema [Love] are emphasised, inwhatever religion or language, there we have Sanathana Dharma [the Eternal Gospel].Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violenceproperly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described asa truly educated person.13. 1. 65You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in whichyou prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So ‘tin’your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeatingholy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes thatyou prepare in it.31. 3. 65Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.4. 4. 65Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, somebecause they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss isvirtue which earns the Grace of God.6. 4. 65An empty iron box gets valued when it contains jewels; the body is honoured when it contains the jewel ofconsciousness and the valuables called virtues. Life has to be lived through, for the sake of the chance tounfold the virtues. Otherwise, man is a burden upon the earth, a consumer of food.When fire rages, you try to put it out by throwing sand or water, and you keep a stock of these in readiness.But, you have six fires raging inside you - lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hatred. What have youin store to put them out? Keep ready Sathya, shaanthi, dharma and prema. They will help you scotch theflames; they are effective extinguishers.30. 9. 65Man’s sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans thepages of the daily newspaper. This is to be attributed to sheer ignorance and perversity, or pitiable fate.The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignoranceof what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed downas the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.14. 11. 65

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identifiedin society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences ofvice.23. 11. 65Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, butyour animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven ofunflinching peace.23. 11. 66Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrinedand is manifest.13. 1. 70If there is righteousness in the heartThere will be beauty in character;If there is beauty in characterThere will be harmony in the home.When there is harmony in the homeThere will be order in the nation.When there is order in the nation,There will be peace in the world.So, be righteous; avoid all prejudices against others on the basis of caste, creed, colour, mode of worship,ststus or degree of affluence. Do not look down on any one; look upon all as Divine as you really are.16. 3. 73Truth is man’s nature; to be untrue is to be false to one’s nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practicalapplication in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) isthe sffulgence of Shanthi.4. 79Every child is born not only with a stomach that has to be catered to, it is also endowed with two handswhich can work and produce the food for the stomach. The hands have to be given the strength and skill;they have to learn the lesson of self-reliance. They should never be lazy or slothful. Then, there can be nodeficiency in food and no problem of underfeeding.21. 6. 79Human nature is an amalgam of animal, human and divine characteristices. Love, compassion, humility,charity - these are all divine. One has to cultivate these, in order to be at peace, with onsself and others.One has to visualise God in every living being and worship Him through love. Therein lies the supremacyof man. Ownership of enormous wealth is a dangerous burden; authority over many men is a dubiousaasset. Love is the most precious treasure to be sought after. Virtue is the wealth to be won.22. 11. 79Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.17. 2. 80You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - thesehelp you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence)Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and theunderstanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth,righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possessfor spiritual advancement.

Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness tocompromise with others’ ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy andfruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.These have to be observed with midifications to suit the conditions of today.9. 80Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. Howis virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings,through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feedthe roots of seva.23. 11. 80Purity of the heart has to be the goal of Saadhana.31. 8. 81Human values can be listed as 50, 60, 70, 80 in all. But they can be better grouped under the followingthree heads; pure thoughts, pure words, pure deed; thoughts, words and deed cordinated with one another.25. 12. 82A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised isa lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems ofwisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to beshared, even at the cost od one’s life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.18. 1. 84Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love thereis sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They arenot mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for ahuman being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a completehuman being.6. 9. 84The man filled with good qualities like Truth, Love, absence of jealousy, ego and hatred, can see Godwithout searching for Him. He becomes a Jnani ( a man of spiritual wisdom)31. 12. 84The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no suchbasis, it leads to disaster.The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is notcorrect. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Innerconflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?22. 3. 85The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the otherfour values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself asTruth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it resultsin Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Thereforewhenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.26. 5. 85

You must cultivate unity, cooperation ans mutual trust. Love is the basis of all other human qualities likeTruth, Righteousness and Peace. If the four qualities of Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are present in aperson, he will manifest the divinity that is in him.5. 12. 85Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibedthese values. The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace andhappiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values, it becomes holy scripture, an inspiring lessonand guide,. Therefore I exhort you: Let Truth and Love be the goals for all your efforts and studies.11. 12. 85More vital than the five pranas (Prana, Apaana and others), Sathya, Dharma, Santhi, Prema and Ahimsa arethe vital life-breath for everyone. Of these the greatest is Prema (Love). Fill yourself with love. Loveshould express itself in service to society. You should look upon society this way. We exist for societyand society exists for the good of all. Try to sanctify your life by doing service and spreading joy andcomfort all around.7. 3. 86Those who produce, those who guard and those who guide - the workers, the soldiers and the teachers - arelike the three lengs of a tripod. But as a mere structure with three legs the tripod cannot be useful andefficient. The people who are the concern and under the care of the three categories form the plank on topof the three. The seat has to be screwed tight to the legs - the screwd being peace, love and truth and theprocess of screwing and tightening being the eager enthusiasm for progress, prosperity, security and unity.The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violenceand Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranasmentioned in the scriptures.9. 3. 86We are today concerned with education in Human Values. In my view the cultivation of Human Valuesalone is education. Whoever tries to understand the human values of Truth, Rightous Conduct, Peace,Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sinceritycan alone be described as a truly educated person.It is when you experience another’s suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.You may think that the programme of education in human values was launched only five years ago. But infact I initiated it nearly fifty years ago. When I was staying in Karnam Subbamma’s house I used to sing asong.With Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and PremaCarry on your life’s journey, oh man;Karma yoga is your bourden duty;Remembering the Lord is the great secretAnd Sadhana is the devotee’s hallmark,Proceed, oh man, on your life’s pilgrimageWith Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema.Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Usethe intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the cropthat is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation isthe manure, Brahmananda is the crop.Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raisedin your heart and should be shared with others.

Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spend itself, devote it to theservice of others. Education in human values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicatedservice.The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading themessage of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony.Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya,Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.Even teachers have to be trained in this respect.5. 90The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Humanstate. If human qualities are lost, the honour of the society and the nation will be lost.2. 9. 91Human life is beset with ups and downs, joys and sorrows. These experiences are intended to serve asguideposts for man. Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficultieswhich bring out the human values in man.Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.6. 2. 93There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.In this context religion means the religion of love. This is the only religion in the world. There is only onecaste, the caste of humanity. One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmonyin thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.12. 4. 93The five values of Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence are related to different innerinstruments of the body . The value of Truth is expressed through speach or words. The value ofrighteousness is expressed through the body. This is related to the physical sheath. Peace can beexperienced only in the mental plane. For Sathya, Dharma and Shanthi one has to purify the instruments ofspeach, body and mind. Love comes out of the mental and bliss sheath. Non-violence comes from Blisssheath. Love (prema) flows as an undercurrent in all the inner instruments and purifies them. So all thefive values are having relationship with the five sheaths.Shanthi comes from Manomaya KosaSathya comes from Vijnanamaya KosaDharma comes from Annamaya KosaPrema comes from Praanamaya and Manomaya KosaAhimsa comes from Anandamaya KosaIn these five sheaths are encased 3 types of bodies: physical (sthoola), Subtle (sookshama) and causel(kaarana) sarirars. Annamaya Kosa represents physical body. It is like the tyre of a lorry. If youincrease intake of food it grows and the weight of the body increases. Divinity is there in all the sheaths ofthe body. It is contant Integrated Awareness in different forms in speach, action and feelings.21. 7. 94

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress.on the observance of human values.When the society and the nation is based18. 12. 94Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, thegreatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity inthought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H’s is essential. ‘Heart, Headand Hand. ’ But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.9. 4. 95A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities isdescribed as the embodiment of ‘Triputi’ (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.15. 4. 95Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).It is a divine quality.Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware ofthese values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.Forgiveness is a quality that every man should possess. That forgiveness is Truth itself, it is Righteousness,it is the Veda. It is the Supreme virtue in this world. Hence, all people should develop the quality offorgiveness.People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups anddowns of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely facethem and overcome them.20. 5. 95Students should acquire human values, in addition to their scholastic, intellectual and other attainments. Itis the decline in human values that accounts for the degradation of human beings in the country today.Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love isright conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understandingwith love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place forhatred.11. 7. 95Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.1. 10. 95How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does notrecognise human values? You must see that you don’t harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed beingwho causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.17. 11. 95Human values should predominate in men’s thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.To be a true human being, one has to practise these values in daily life.18. 12. 95Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love andNon-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by thelove they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned withsuccess.

15. 1. 96What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.He has to follow righteousness. He has to cultivate love. he has to live in peace. He has to observe nonviolence.Sticking to these five values, man can exercise his freedom. These five values, are associatedwith the five elements which make up the cosmos. These five elements which may be used in differentways, but they are the basic substances constituting the universe. Beyond these five, there is only one sixthelement, that is, the Antahkarana, the Inner Motivator, which is identical with the Atmic Principle.To exercise freedom in its true sense, man has to respect the five basic values. It is in that freedom he willfind true bliss.18. 1. 96Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are bornalong with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from humanvalues and yet wants to live as a human being. To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one hasalso to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the worldwill progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as aseed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritualsoil. If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, waterit with love so that human values will grow.Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity.flourish.When these two are present, humanness willControl of senses is an important human value.17. 2. 96At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losinglove mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace andnon-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.HUMILITY25. 11. 59The unmistakeable sign of rain is the wetness of the ground; so too, the sign of a person who has had someyears of schooling is good manners; he must have humility and know that the field of knowledge is so vaastthat he has been unable even to touch its fringe; he must be aware oof his kinship with all mankind and hemust show a keenness to do service to others, at all times, gladly, and without desire for publicity.10. 4. 75Education should lead one to humility, which in turn equips him with all the eligibility. Eligibility provideshim with necessary material wealth, which again enables him to do some charitable deeds. Charity makeshim happy both in this world and the other one higher than this.22. 11. 81Humility is the mark of scholarship. If this mark is absent, the scholar is an ignorramies. Humility is theproduct of Aathma Vidhya.25. 5. 82

Education must result in humility. Humility is the best credential one can earn. That yields wealth andthrough wealth one can promote righteousness and engage in charity. This ensures happiness here andhereafter. Humility cannot grow through poring over books. The educational process prevalent todaydoes not promote humility. It confers degrees which swell the heads of recipients. It does not ssanctifythe person who is educated. It does not promote the nations progress. But, education has to encourage theexploration of the true needs of the country and the methods by which they can be met. Youth musttdedicate itself to this work.27. 10. 82Humility can be built only on a foundation of charity, detachment.21. 7. 94Humility does not mean mere bonding of the head.and attachment can be called humility.Only an attitude of mind free from egoism, ostentation1. 10. 95At birth all are pure and innocent. But as they grow, they develop arrogance, pride and ostentation. Butthis is not proper. People should cultivate humility and discipline, which are the hall-mark of humanness.Humanness means harmony in thought, word and deed. The absence of this harmony is degrading. Menshould learn to respect one another. The Divine is present in everyone. Strive to make others happy as faras possible.Everyone should manifest his divine essence as a spark of the Divine. It is a fruit of many lives to be bornas a human being. Man must lead an exemplary life. Education and wealth are good in themselves, butwhen they are misused they become harmful. The fault lies in the conduct of the persons concerned.Humanness consists in leading a life free from egoism and acquisitiveness.20. 1. 96The characteristic of true education is Humility. Humility helps to make one deserving of respect.Deservedness leads to wealth and wealth leads to Righteousness. Righteousness is the means of liberation.We are now giving importance only to intellectual cleverness. This is wrong. Importance has to be givenonly to character.INTELLECT14. 1. 65Why blame the Sun that he does not illumine your room? Open the doors and the Sun, who has beenwaiting at the doorstep for just that moment, floods the room with light. You must use your intelligence todeserve the Grace of God. That is the purpose of human effort.30. 1. 65When the Sun is in the sky, the Moon is blazed out of sight. Buddhi, the sharpened intellect, is the Sun; thepale satellite, waxing and waning, the Moon, is the Mind. So, give intelligence full prominence; let themind subserve the dictates of reason, not of passion.23. 5. 65You must use your intelligence to discover what is best under the circumstances and in the situation,considering the status and the profession which you have won.19. 8. 65

Provided your intellect is sharp and free from prejudices and predilections, the Reality will reveal itself toyou in a flash, for it is quite a simple thing. Only, it must be capable of seeing the problem in its basicessence, apart from all the jumble of irrelevances.28. 9. 65The mind is the morach; the senses are the soldiers; the soldiers are now ruling the king, because he lendshis ears to them and not to intellect, who is the Prime Minister. Let buddhi take charge; in a moment, thesenses will be forced back into camp and the mind can save itself.2. 10. 65The body is the temple of God; He is resident in the heart. Intelligence(buddhi) is the lamp lit in that altar;now, every gust of wind that blows through the windows of the senses affects the flame of the lamp anddulls its light, threatening even to put it out. So, close the windows; do not keep them open for direattraction from objects.Keep buddhi sharp, so that it may cut the mind like a diamond and convert it into a blaze of light, instead ofbeing a dull pebble.10. 9. 69Make the mind subserve the Intellect; then, the path of man towards God is straightened and smoothed.1981The intellect is like the driver of the car. The faculty that decides between good and bad and what courseone should take is buddhi. the buddhi has to exercise its direction in the light of injunctions from theAathman, its Master.Buddhi is the superiormost amongst all the faculties and its pre-eminence is due to its proximity andcloseness to the Aathman. The horses are in front of the chariot; the reins are outside equipments, but thecharioteer sits close to the master inside. Therefore, amongst the instruments, buddhi stands foremost;below buddhi is manas (the mind), below the sensory organs is the body (gross body). The brilliance of theAathman directly falls on buddhi which derives the maximum benefit and strength from the Aathman.Therefore, buddhi can judge aright and choose the right path. Only when a man uses his intelligenceproperly we call him buddhimaan. If he does not use its direction properly we call him moodha or aviveki.The buddhi should exercise its control over the mind, and the mind over the senses. But what happensgenerally is that the buddhi does not exercise discrimination; the mind arrogates to itself superiority overthe intellect and the senses arrogate to themselves superiority over the mind. And the chariot runs in thewrong direction and the purpose of the journey does not find its fulfilment. To avoid this, buddhi has to actin the Aathmic light and the mind in subordination to buddhi. When buddhi is centered and anchored inAathman, it receives the Aathmic light and brilliance and it gains its strength in fulfilling its role efficientlyand fruitfully. It is not as if our daily life is different from Aadhyaathmic life.In our day-to-day life, if we use the intelligence to discriminate between right and wrong and follow thedictates of the Aathman, then everything will be right. This is the Divine prescription and panacea for life.What is therefore required first is faith in the existence and supremacy of Aathman. if one has no faith inAathman, no self-confidence, and if he goes ahead with his egostic vanity, how can he ever benefit by thedivine light and guidance? How can he know the Aathmic splendour?13. 1. 84No one should feel proud about his cleverness or intelligence or about his ability to win laurels in studies.Good character and right thinking are more valuable than scholarstic achievements or intellectual abilities.Utilise your intelligence and thoughts for achieving that bliss which comes from leading a life ofrighteousness and goodness. Enter on a life dedicated to ideals.14. 7. 84

In the field of the heart grows a wish fulfilling tree. Around it all kinds of shrubs have grown. If theshrubs are cleared, the wish-fulfilling tree will be visible. Today the aspirations of man soar to the sky.We should realise that man has not only a mind which conceives thoughts, but also a heart which can putthem into practice. From the heart emanate such good qualities as kindness, compassion, sympathy, nonviolenceand equal mindedness. Evil qualities like anger, envy, hatred, cruelty, greed also flow from theheart. Man has the power of discrimination through his Buddhi to decide what is right and what is wrong,what is good and what is evil.The possession of intellect alone is not enough. Man has to cultivate the spirit of enquiry to be convincedwhat is right or wrong. Even that is not enough. After having found what is right or wrong, he must liveupto to his convictions. Thinking, discriminating and practice - all three constitute the basic humancharacteristices. By the unity of these three, the light of wisdom illumines the heart. The mere presence ofthe light is not enough. We should seek to go forward with the help of that illumination. If, having thislight, we do not follow the path revealed by it, we are as unseeing as the blind.INTELLIGENCE29. 9. 60You very often say, ‘Oh everything is Baba’s Will’; then why do you come and ask for this and that or evenwish or plan? You must use the intelligence and the imagination you have been allotted, to the best purpose;then the giver will be pleased to give more. On the other hand, if you misuse the intelligence and turn theimagination against your master, the giver will naturally get incensed and he will punish you in order toteach you a lesson.How do you give me Aanandha? By taking to heart what I say and putting it into daily practice. Decidingto move high but attracted by the low, you betray yourself. Improve your character and conduct; whenyour feelings become cleansed and your impulses pure, then you cansee My Form in its Reality. I shall tellyou the thing in a nutshell; Make the intelligence that has to understand Me free from crookedness; let itbecome straight and sharp.17. 3. 66Man, according to this ancient teaching, is not simply a co-ordinated collection of limbs, senses andsensations. He is all these, governed by intelligence, sharpened by the modes and memories earnedthrough many births. That intelligence itself is an instrument with a limited range of efficiency; there aremany goals which it cannot achieve. These can be reached only by the descent of Grace and Power fromabove. Complete surrender of the ego to that Power will bring it down, fill you with itself.12. 5. 68The body is as the container of the torch, the senses are the bulb and the mind is the cell, but haveintelligence as the switch. Then, it will not be turned towards the undesirable. It will be used only to helpman’s progress towards the Divine destiny.17. 3. 73Intelligence is a special gift from God to man; it confers the power of discrimination between right andwrong. Peace or happiness depends on the choice of the right means and this is a matter to be decided bythe intelligence.Without intelligent discrimination, no skill or strength can be profitably used.10. 3. 74When a rose is held in the hand, its fragrance can give the holder joy. So too, when your intelligence issaturated with the fragrance of virtue and charity you can derive contentment and joy, and those around youalso can share in the peace and harmony.

1. 8. 76Intelligence being the special mark of humans, every effort must be made to amplify and sharpen it so that itmay be a fit instrument for understanding the inner and the outer worlds. Along with the intelligence,character, too, has to be cultivated in equal measure, for then alone can that intelligence be used to servesociety.25. 1. 79Man has been endowed with the power of discrimination between the essentially good and the superficiallypleasant, but he does not cultivate that faculty and benefit from it.26. 4. 79Intellect is best used as an instrument for self-realisation. It is nearest to the Aathma in man, but when it isever busy seeking faults in others, it gets polluted in the process and loses the power of reflecting themajesty, the splendour and the glory of the Aathman which can illumine it. Now, the advantage of theadjacence is lost and Buddhi strays far into the world in search of objective pleasure, and sensorysatisfactions.21. 11. 79Buddhi (intelligence) should subject to scrutiny all the wishes of the mind. It is only when buddhi is lit bythe splendour of the Aathman that it can recommend the course of action to the senses, through the mind.Calamities happen only when the buddhi is not alert or is circumvented by the mind. Let Buddhi take allthe time it needs to sort out the pros and cons. Haste makes waste; waste results in worry; so do not be in ahurry.21. 9. 80Bamboo is valued for its form and strength and beauty. Similarly the real work of man lies in hisintelligence. His intelligence has come to him over many lives and the real value of his buddhi (intellect) isto practise thyaaga (renunciation).14. 4. 95The quest for Truth is linked with the pursuit of wisdom (Jnana). For the acquisition of wisdom, purity ofthe intellect (Buddhi) is essential. If the intellect is not pure, the senses are likely to go haywire. Purity ofthe intellect is infact, essential for every purpose. Sadhanas performed without purity of the heart will beutterly useless, like food cooked in unclean vessels.Man today is inclined to follow the mind rather than the intellect. Hence he is caught up in ignorance,because the mind has no luminosity of its own. It is only when the light from the intellect illumines themind that man can make a safe journey. The intellect has been described as capable of going beyondd thereach of the senses. Hence man should be guided by the intellect. Below the intellect is the mind. Belowthe mind are the senses. Below the sensses is the body.JAPA23. 2. 58Japam and Dhyaanam are means by which you can compel even the concretisation of the Divine Grace, inthe Form and with the Name you yearn for. The Lord has to assume the Form you choose, the Name youfancy; in fact, you shape Him so. Therefore, do not change these two, but stick to the ones that please youmost, whatever the delay or difficulty.21. 11. 70A person who is ill has to swallow the medicine himself and that to as long as he is ill, however bitter themedicine may be. A person, who is ill with ignorance and therefore is suffering from egoism and

discontent, has to take the medicine of Japa - Dhyana; the disease of over-attachment to worldly objects canbe cured only by the drug of attachment to God, cultivated through Japa and Dhyana.Nov 75With your body doing good work, with your mind having good thoughts and with your mouth uttering goodwords, these are three good aspects of thapas (ability for meditation). It is in this context, we have beentold that if thought is one, word is the something and the deed is also the same thing and if there is harmonybetween though, word and deed you become a great man. If there is disharmony between thought, wordand deed, thought is one thing, word is yet another and deed is still another, then you become a bad man.JEALOUSY9. 9. 59Jealosy is the cause of ruin. It is born of the undue importance attached to the body, the senses and theaccumulation of objects that cater to the senses. See things in their proper perspective, give them theirworth but no more. There are greater things that grant joy and peace. Try to get hold of them; everyone ofyou has a right to possess them. None can keep them away from your grasp.26. 11. 64The Lord is approachable by all; do not have envy towards others or feel that they are your rivals or yourinferiors or even superiors; each has a place in His mansion.12. 12. 64Envy is the greatest of sins. Vanity, envy, and egoism these three are kin. They cut at the root of man’sreal nature. To feel proud that you ara a bhaktha is also a blot. Though you may be a mountain, you mustfeel you are a mound; though a mound, you should not pretend to be mountain.6. 9. 84The cultivation of good qualities implies getting rid of all bad qualities. Among the latter, two areparticularly undesirable. They are Jealousy and Hatred. These two bad qualities are like two conspirators,one aids and abets the other in every action. Jealousy is like the past which attacks the root of a tree.Hatred is like the pest which attacks the branches, leaves and flowers. When the two combine, the tree,which may look beautiful and flourishing is utterly destroyed.Jealousy attacks a person from inside and is not visible. Hatred exhibits itself in open forms. There ishardly anyone who is free from the vice of jealousy. Jealousy may arise even over very trivial matters, andout of jealousy hatred arises. To get rid of hatred one must constantly practise love. Where there is love,there will be no room for jealousy and hatred and where there is no jealousy and hatred, there is real joy.This joy reveals itself in Beauty.You must learn to enjoy another’s prosperity and happiness. This is a great virtue.Jealousy expresses itself even in the form of finding faults in the Divine. It manifests itself in many forms.If one has earned a better name than another, jealousy develops towards him. Since people are evenjealous of those who are more handsome than themselves. Students even envy others who secure moremarks in the examination. The jealous person cannot bear to see anyone who is better placed, morehandsome or prosperous than himself. This is a sign of human weakness.Once jealousy take root in a man’s mind, it, in due course, destroys all his other achievements. It promotesdemonic qualities. It dehumanises the man. It reduces him to the condition of an animal. Because of itsegregious evil tendency, jealousy should be rooted out from the very begining.By freeing onself from jealousy, one can even conquer the qualities of Sathwa, Rajas and Thamas.Jealousy not only does harm to others but is also self distructive. For the man filled with jealousy, there isno sleep and he cannot even eat heartily. It is like a consumptive disease which weakens a person from

inside. It is a wasting disease which is widespread in this Kali age. It is because of jealousy that man is aprey to peacelessness.Jealousy is a canker that is self-destroying.Everyone should strive to rid himself of egoism, jealousy and hatred. This elimination cannot be achievedby mere study of books. Constant effort is required. by cultivating love and dedicating all actions to God,these evil traits have to be got rid of. As long as jealousy remains, to the slightest extent, it will destroyevery good quality in us.A man filled with jealousy and hatred is like a blind man who cannot see the sun however brightly he mayshine. He cannot see God however near God may be.7. 8. 88Before you undertake any activity, you must examine whether it is right or wrong, whether it is good or bad.When such an enquiry is being made, sometimes an evil force enters. It is jealousy. It clouds your vision.This jealousy has an evil companion called egoism. These two evil elements are always seeking toestablish themselves, especially in the minds of the young. Every effort must be made to give no room forthem.3. 7. 93The demonic qualities produced by jealousy results in the destruction of the discriminating power and leadman to pursue evil ways.The root of all the evils arising in the world can be traced to jealousy.JESUS25. 3. 58Jesus taught that God is love. Instead of recognising this basic truth, men are allowing hatred, envy andother evil qualities to pollute their love. Man is gifted with the quality of love and not to express it forselfish purposes but to direct it towards God. Jesus declared that there was nothing great about returninggood for good. They should do good even to those who harm them.The `I' when crossed out becomes the symbol of cross; so what is crucified is the ego, remember. Then, theDivine nature manifests itself unhampered.22. 11. 70A person who is ill has to swallow the medicine himself and that do as long as he is ill, however bitter themedicine may be. A person, who is ill with ignorance and therefore is suffering from egotism anddiscontent , has to take the medicine of Japa - Dhyana; the disease of over-attachment to worldly objectscan be cured by the drug of attachment to God, cultivated through Japa and Dhyana.11. 75With your body doing good work, with your mind having good thoughts and with your mouth uttering goodwords , these are three good aspects of thapas (ability for meditation). It is in this context, we have beentold that if thought is one, word is the same thing and the deed is also the same thing and if there is harmonybetween thought, word and deed. Thought is one thing, word is yet another and deed is still another, thenyou become a bad man.25. 12. 88Two different characteristics are to be found among men. One characteristic, which is rather common, isfor one to delude himself that he is a good man, with many virtues, intelligence and talents. The other

quality, which is rare, is recognition of the good quality in others, their merits, abilities and good deeds andappreciate their ideals. Jesus belonged to the second category. He saw the good qualities in others,rejoiced over their virtues and shared his joy with others. .`You must adhere to Truth and not succumb to falsehood or unrighteousness. You must face with couragethe vicissitudes of life. You must love even your enemies. Universal love transcends all other virtues.Love is the supreme virtue' declared Jesus.25. 12. 92It is not right to celebrate Christ's birthday by feasting, drinking, singing and merrymaking. The idealstaught by Jesus should be put into practice. That is the right way to celebrate his birthday. Whomsoeveryou adore, you must try to live up to his teachings. What kind of devotion is it when the devotee does notpractise what he professes? It is pseudo devotion.Jesus performed many miraculous deeds, relieved the sufferings of many in distress, preached sublimetruths to the people, and ultimately sacrificed his life. For over a hundred years after his martyrdom,Christ's message did not have any impact. Four centuries later, Christianity was accepted by Romanemperors.KARMA27. 9. 60There are karmas which have to be done as duties, related to the status in Samsara (worldly life), and ifthese are done in the proper spirit, they will not bind at all. Do all karma as actions in a play, keeping youridentity separate and not attaching yourself too much to your role. Remember that the whole thing is just aplay and the Lord has assigned to you a part; act well your part, there all your duty ends. He has designedthe play and He enjoys it.29. 9. 60The oil in the lamp is the fat derived from the actions of previous ‘lives’. The stronger the flame, thebrighter the light and sooner the oil is used up. Do vigorous karma and exhaust the effects of the past andbe free from the weight hanging round your neck. there is more joy in the doing of karma than in the fruitit may give; the pilgrimage is often more pleasurable than the actual experience of the temple to which thepilgrim went.It was mentioned in the Geetha that you should not care for the fruit of your action; but I say now that youmay value the result of your actionsnto a limited extent. That advice was given according to the conditionsprevalent then and the delusion Arjuna suffered. Since it will increase your Aanandha (Bliss) and givegreater strength to your Sadhana, I say now that so far as Saadhana is concerned, you can do it with a keeneye on the Aanandha that you will ultimately derive.I have no desire and so, no binding karma. It is only you have the desire, aim and wish that drag you alongvarious paths. For Me, your Aanandha is My Food, your elation is the swing on which I sit, your activityis My Playground.30. 9. 60Do nto be weighed down by sorrow that your Praarabdha karma is against your progress. Theaccumulation of the effects of your past karma is sanchitha and out of that store what you have selected forpresent consumption is Praarabdha; if wisely used and cooked, the Praarabdha can be made sweet, palatableand healt-giving. Moreover, God’s Grace can destroy the effects of past karma or modify its rigour.Never doubt that.

If the law of karma is so unbreakable, then why recommend sadhana, good living and cultivation of virtue?Praarabdha will melt like mist before the sun if you win the Grace of the Lord! The Grace of the Lord isneeded for the dawn of Jnaana also.21,10. 61The craving for fruit will render all spiritual discipline fruitless.2. 10. 62In the firmament of the heart, the mind and the intellect must must shine as the Moon and the Sun; Karma islike the clouds that pass; do not worry about them. Some clouds are inevitable; they will shift soon andfade away. So also Karma. They will not disappear if you simply shout at them. Discipline alone candrive away those clouds; that is to say, Karma has to be done to free the mind form the cosequences ofKarma.18. 2. 64The Godward path is action based on righteousness (Karma based on Dharma). That is the path, alsotowards joy, contentment and therefore of strength. Now, the path has become hidden by an overgrowth ofbriar and bush; the bridges and culverts are in despair. People have forgotten the goal, the path, and thehabit of walking on it. That road is the only refuge; it must be tomorrow, if not, today, for the goal lies atthe end of that road.15. 8. 64Dedicate all tasks of offering to the Lord. never deviate from that attitude.11. 10. 64You cannot desist from Karma; only, you have got to take care that it is saturated with prema and promotesthe welfare of the world.12. 10. 64Karma cleanses the mind, if it is done as a dedicatory act, the consequence being left to the Will of theLord.23. 11. 64Do the Karma for which you are best fitted, which is your Swadharma (one’s duties that accord with one’snature); do it without complaint, without any malingering. That is the priciple of Varnaashrama dharma(duties of social groups and stages of life).14. 1. 65Karma is the cause of birth, the jeevi (soul) being compelled to undergo another ordeal for clearing itsaccounts and becoming free of both credit and debit.A volcano throws up its lava on the screen of the picture house; a dam bursts and the flood waters it hadimpounded roar along towards the sea, submerging vast states; but the screen is not burst, nor does it getwet in the least. The screen is the truth, the film is an illusion, however realistic it was, however genuinethe feelings it aroused. Know this and so direct your life that this knowledge is the beckground of all youractions. Thus you will have great peace and great joy.Perform action, but do not hanker after the fruit. Do not complain that you did not get public recognitionfor the donations you gave to some Trust. Fruits, whether good or bad, you yourself have to consume; sothe best means of leberating yourself from the consequences is to ignore the fruit and do perform action, forthe sake of action only. You will not be burdened with either sin or merit if you act so.If you fan a person out of love, you can leave off when you must; but a servant accepting wages for faninghis master has to continue whether he like it or not. Give up the desire for remuneration and you are free;accept it or ask for and you get bound. That is the secret of ‘renunciation of the fruit of action’.

29. 1. 65Engage yourselves in action that will direct your intellect and mind along divine and sublime channels.Win Grace through karma, do karma that will win Grace. if the lamp does not burn it proves that you havenot lit it. the Lord is neither benignant nor malignant; your progress is reflected back as Grace; yourdecline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice.30. 1. 65Good acts done with attachment ensure Heaven, from where one has to come again to Earth, when thedeposit is spent out.24. 3. 65Go straight along the path of karma (action) and dharma (virtue) towards Brahma (the Supreme Reality);this is your destiny, karma has to be done, there is no turning away. Each has his allotted task, according tothe status, taste, tendency and earned merit. Do it, with the fear of God and of sin, deep in your heart.Welcome pain and grief so that you take both success and failure as hammer strokes to shape you into asturdy saadhaka. Inner content is more important than outer prosperity.26. 3. 65The consequence of karma can be wiped out only through karma, as a thorn can be removed only by meansof another. Do good karma to assuage the pain of the bad karma, which you have done and from whichyou suffer now. The best and the simplest karma is the repetition of the Name of the Lord; be ever engagedin it. It will keep out evil tendencies and wicked thoughts. It will help you radiate love all round you.The sages of ancient times divided karma into vikarma (that is intentionally done) and akarma (that is donewithout any intention to gain the consequence). Follow the latter and you will save yourselves fromsuffering. All other activities - the earning of wealth, of reputation, of fame and publicity - results insuffering. Gain internal peace, internal joy; that can be done only when you act without an eye on the gain.the act must be its own rewad; or rather, the act must be according to the prompting of the God within, sothat its consequence is left to Him. Practice this attitude consistently and you will find great peace wellingwithin you and around you.You may ask why the burden of the consequences of acts in previous births cannot be easily brushed away;no, they can be destroyed as a heap of cotton is burnt by a spark of fire. The spark of jnaana will destroythe effect of karma, in a trice. these consequences are like the cloud of dust that follows a bus, when it runson a fair-weather road; when bus reaches the gravel road or the metalled road, the dust is less, but it is stillthere. When at last it enters the tarred road there is no dust. The mud track is karma; the metalled road isupasana; the tarred dust-free road is jnaana. By human skill and effort it is possible to reduce the burden ofpast karma.28. 3. 65Activity results in either joy or grief, due to the attachment with which it is done. ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are the twofangs of the serpant; pluck them out, then, you vcan safely handle it and play with it. You need not give upactivity. As a matter of fact, you have to be intensively active. In thiss karmabhuthi it is only throughkarma that you can trnascend karma. Birds and beasts are not aware of this secret; man alone can selectand accept the karma that is most profitable for liberation from the chain of karma. If he seeks happinessby satisfying the demands of the sense, he learns that happiness won by that search is inseparably mixedwith misery4. 4. 65Do not aspire to be a servant of God, working for wages; you reduce yourself to that level if you ask for thisand that from Him in return for the praise that you offer or the sacrifice you undergo; even if you do not ask,if the bargaining attitude is in your mind or if you feel disappointed that God did not give you desirableobjects in return for all the trouble you took to please Him.

Dedicate the deed as well as the consequence to Him. Then you becom His own, not a cooly, demandingwages. That is the highest level a bhaktha can reach through saadhana. That is the reason why nishkaamakarma (ddesireless action) is so highly extolled in the Geetha by Krishna.10. 4. 65The law of karma is not an iron law, by dedication, by purification, which invites benediction, its effects canbe moddified, and its rigour mitigated. Do not despair; do not lose heart.23. 5. 65Karma is the seed out of which the individual emanatess; the jeevi feels separate and limited, on account ofths illusion created by karma or activity. As the karma, so the consequence. If it is good, the consequencewill tend to attract you towards the means of liberation, that is, towards spiritual efforts and Godly thoughts.29. 9. 65Man is journeying through the stream of life from one out to another; it is one continuous activity, markedby karma throughout. But the pity is he does not know the correct technique of karma. The fruit dependsupon the seed, the soil, the manure, the care, the fence. The fruit of karma has to take account of thetendencies and consequences of the activities in previous lives also.23. 3. 66The law of karma holds out hope for you; as the karma, so the consequence. Do not bind yourself furtherby seeking the fruit of karma; offer the karma at the feet of God; let it glorify Him; let it further Hissplendour. Be unconcerned with the success or failure of the endeavour. Then, death can have no more tobind you with. Death will come as a liberator, not a jailor.27. 3. 66Engage in some work which will take you out of your narrow self into the vaster magnificence; some taskwhere you dedicate the fruit of karma to God, where you devote your time and energy to share your joy orskill or knowledge with fellow-men.17. 10. 66So long as the consequence of karma persists, man is bound to be born, to finish the consumption thereof.For, the slate of karma has to be wiped clean so that the account of birth and death can be closed with nilbalance. Desire is the prompting behind all activity. Desire is the urge. No activity arises in those whohave attained all desires, for they rest in the aathma which has no desire.It is only in Sanathana Dharma( the eternal Moral Code) that the importance of karma in shaping the destinyof man, the fact of the individual undergoing many births in his progress towards birthlessness, and themighty Grace of God’s coming as Man among men to gather them around Him in holy companionship forsaving them and saving the world through them, is so strongly and so clearly laid down. If you doubt anyof these great truths, you are certain to suffer and grieve. Every one of you must be saved, sooner or later,by the Grace of the All-Merciful. Make it sooner rather than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye andmarch on.11. 11. 66So long as you act with an eye to benefit by it for yourself, you will have to undergo the consequence andsuffer either joy or grief, being born to bear them both. A person being transferred from one jail to anotherwill have two constables who will escort him; the good consequences (punja) and bad consequences ofactions (paapa) are the constables who lead man from one birth to another. If you must escape from theirattention and avoid migration from one jail to another, act - but do not calculate the consequences. That isto say, do not worry about the consequences; leave it to God who prompted the act and made it possible.Dedicate the act, the will, the wish, all to God.3. 9. 67

Karma, when engaged in as dedicated to God, loses its deleterious effects for the doer, leaves theconsequence to God; moreover, he considers every act as an act of worship and so does it to the best of hisability.23. 4. 67When you engage in activity, you must choose such an activity that will not involve you in its chain ofconsequences. Karma must be such that it does not involve you to the karma. Karma dedicated to God,karma done in a spirit of surrender, with no concern for the cosequence - these alone can prevent thesprouting of further shoots from each individual karma.14. 10. 67The Lord is neither up nor down. He is within, not seen because the heart is unclean. Engage in karmauntil this cleansing is accomplished; then, when the Lord in you is cognised, all your acts will promote thewelfare of the world.15. 10. 67There is a law of cause and effect; every karma has a consequence, whether you like it or not, whether youanticipate it or not. A good karma produces a good result; a bad one has to produce a bad result. Birth isthe result of the karma done before death, if you are asked what happens to men after death, you can pointto yourselves and declare ‘This is what happens’; they are born again. This is no religion of despair; it is alife. For the future is in your hands, tomorrow can be shaped by today. , though today has already beenshaped by yesterday. That is the reason why the biggest section of the Vedhas is called ‘Karma Kaanda’and deals with various types of karma, calculated to induce detachment, to canalise the desire towardseternal and universal ends, to transmute all acts into acts of worship, to offer adoration to the Devas whopreside over every force of Nature, every energy of man, every limbs of his anatomy.22. 11. 67All the acts you perform must be directed towards one end: drawing dowm on you the Grace of God. Allthe provissions stocked in the store-room in your house are there to meet one purpose: appease your hunger.So too all karma is for attaining God.The Lord values the mental attitude behind each act. Yad bhaavan thad bhaavathi - what you feel, that youbecome. Transmute every act into an item of puja, of worship; then derive maximum joy. Sai in everybeing; so, do not slight any.Karma is the flower and jnana is the fruit. The flower becomes the fruit, in the fullness of time. Only, onehas to guard it and keep it free from pests.27. 3. 68The most direct method of spiritual success is Nishkaama karma(desireless action), action without anyattention or attachment to the fruit therefrom, action as duty, action as dedication, action as worship. But,action and the fruit thereof are not two separate entities, the fruit is the action itself, in its final stage, theclimax, the conclusion. the flower is the fruit; the fruit is the flower; one is the begining, the other is thelegitimate end. The flower becomes the fruit. The action become the consequence.One’s duty is to act; act well, act in fear of God; act within the bounds of morality; act in love; continueacting; the consequences will naturally follow as the fruit follows the flower. One need not worry or exult.Act enthusiastically, with faith - success is yours. Arjuna acted so.28. 3. 68The ‘second hand’ in the watch moves fast, round and round; when it completes one full round, the ‘minutehand’ moved first a little. Its movement is not so perceptible. When the ‘minute hand’ has completed oneround in its own slow manner, you find that the ‘hour hand’ has moved towards the next number! The‘second hand’ is the symbol of karma (action); through karma done by the gross body, the various goodworks it engages itself in, the subtle body or inner consciousness progresses a little and moves forward.

12. 5. 68Karma (activity) has to be regulated by dharma (righteousness) then it will lead one onto Brahman (thebasic truth of the Universe including Onself).18. 7. 70When acts are done as offering to God, one will not be elated at success or disheartened by failure, for, Heprompts, He helps, He grants joy or grief as He Wills, as He cares. The doer will have no attachment to thefruit of the deed; so, he will not be bound to its consequence; it will leave no trace on his personality whichwill shape him beyond death.3. 10. 70Activity that is divorced from spiritual goals, divorced from reverence and humility, leads to conceit andauthoritarianism. It makes man arrogant and cruel; but the sages of India laid down that all activity has tobe done as a yajna,as offerings for the Glory of God, in a atmosphere of thankfulness and awe, of humilityand holiness. The goal of all activity was idealised as the happiness and peace of all mankind, indeed, ofall living beings. Individual aggrandizment was thus ruled out and coondemned.10. 10. 74It is the activity which declares whether the individual or society is good or bad. The thermometermeasures the temperature of the body and announces whether the body is well or ill. the Karma or activityis the indicator of inner character. Observing one’s actions, their motives, their consequences and theextent of one’s involvement, it is possible to declare one as a pashu (beest) or Pashupathy (the Lord ofIndividual Souls), that is to say as Divine as God Himself.All Karma done to ensure the welfare of others without any aspiration for personal benefit is good karmawhich the Gods would appreciate as a Krathu. The evil consequences that are sure to affect you when youhave committed wrong Karmas can be counteracted by engaging yourself in beneficial Karmas, therebyearning benefit.30. 12. 77We become what we feel and act. Karma (action) shapes the future as it has shaped the present. Karma isthe supreme make of one’s destiny. So one must seek Sathsang in order to purify one’s Karma, whichotherwise might act as a shackle. It is impossible to escape from the consequences of one’s Karma. Theshruthi (revealed sacred text) requires you, therefore, to prostrate before every karma that you do, prayingthat it may not bring harm to anyone or to yourself.5. 4. 81You may rotate a ball of sweets outside the mouth but unless it is put into it and eaten, hunger will not beabated. So, develop sincere longings, cleanse the mind, purify the thoughts and put the precepts intopractice. In Vedhaantha, this process is mentioned as karma maya, the path of activity.12. 4. 81Dedicate all your activity to God. Then, it will not be warped and worsened by the ego.17. 7. 81Activities (karma) are of three kinds: karma, vikarma and karma (action, inaction and unaction). Of theseunaction is the most subtle of actions, for it is neither sloth nor action motivated by desire. It is simpleawareness, the deepest experience. It is neither thaamasik nor raajasik. Action is rajasik when urged onby selfish motives. Inaction is thamasik. But unaction is saathwick.30. 8. 81Karma shapes one’s personality. The nature of the karma decides the nature of the consequence.22. 10. 81

There are four types of karma: Production, Acquisition, Transformation and Refinement. Let us take thefirst type, production. Land is levelled and ploughed, furrowed and fed, before seeds are sown, thensaplings are guarded and crops are fostered, before the grain is harvested. But, the grain does not give uslasting contentment and joy.The second type is Acquisition. We acquire things which we hope will fulfill our wants, through the use ormisuse of our status in society, position or authority, command over riches or other men and our ownphysical prowess and intelligent skills. Even such gains and possessions do not confer lasting joy. Whileacquiring, while guarding what has been acquired and while spending or consuming it, we have to undergopainful effort and be ever vigilant. Acquisition is therefore fraught with difficulties and it has onlytemporary value.The third type is Transformation. An example is the change caused in milk to produce curds; forging apiece of iron into a knife or axe. Even these articles do not last long. They disintegrate soon.The fourth type of activity is Refinement, removing dirt and dross. When we decide to celebrate a holyday, we repaint doors and windows, clean floor and polish door knobs etc. and make the house look spicleand span. We wipe the dust from off the mirrors. The daily bath and washing clothes are also processesof refining. We have to refine the mind also. But refined things and minds do not last as refined; theyhave to be subjected to the same process again and again.20. 5. 82Every action has its reaction on oneself and on others. This is the law of nature, as inevitable as the effectsof heat and cold. Every karma brings with it a series of consequences. Physical illness, mentalderangement, economic suffering, domestic miseries are all the fruits of one’s own karma. They cannot beascribed to the hard-heartedness of God.One’s karma reveals one’s bestial propensities or human virtues or god ward aspirations. The attitudes andpreferences built into man’s consciousness either by his previous lives or the society into which they havethrust him in this life, are also revealed.1. 9. 82Karma is the sincere discharge of one’s duty, as laid down in the scriptures and as beneficial to our standardand ststus. Through karma done for some benefit in view, man progresses towards karma with no benefitin view, so that he does it as a rightful obligation, undeterred by defeat or unaffected by success. He doeskarma, regulated by dharma (virtue). Then his consciousness is purified and elevated and can help him tobecome aware of his Reality as the Self which includes all, Brahman.27. 10. 82The seed turns into a tree only after years, and the fruit takes a few more. Every deed is a seed thatinevitably yields fruits, either sweet or bitter, which one has to eat in joy or grief. So, man mas to resolveto do good, see good, hear good and be good.13. 7. 84Every action in daily life should be turned into an act of devotion to God.When you do any act in a spirit of dedication, as an offering to God, you can experience joy and findfulfilment.5. 9. 84When one acts without foresight, one has to repent for the consequences of the indiscriminate action.10. 9. 84All acts undertaken by persons after surrendering their wills and wants to the Lord become so holy and sopure that they do not bind one, either by the iron chain of misery or the golden chain of exultation.

When work is undertaken with an egoistic attitude, impelled by selfish motives and inspired by hopes ofself-advancement, it feeds greed and pride, envy and hatred. Then, it fastens the bond and fosters thefeeling of attachment to more and more profitable works. It promotes ingratitude to those who lent theirhands and brains and to God Himself who endowed the person with the urge and skill. ‘I did it’, one sayswhen the work succeeds; or ‘others spoiled it’, one says when it fails. Resentment, depression and despairfollow when the work results in failure. The more deeply one is attached to the fruits, the moree intenseand painful is one’s grief when one is disappointed. The only means therefore, to escape from both prideand pain is to leave the result to the will of God, while one is happy in the thought that one has done hisduty with all the dedication and care that one is capable of. No one can do better than his best.12. 9. 84Krishna told Arjuna, ‘Offer your everything to Me; offer all your Dharmas to Me and I will take care of youand give you liberation and deliverance. Be they physical, mental, spiritual or worldly, offer all youractions to Me!23. 9. 84The actions performed by men are described as Karmas. To reap the fruits of their actions, they take birthin bodies. Hence, man is represented as bound by karma. It is for experiencing the results of one’s goodand bad deeds that one takes birth.Involvement in actions, whether good or bad, results in bondage. The chains that bind may be made ofgold or of iron, but they are chains all the same. Good deeds alone cannot be the means of liberation.One must seek what is permanent and eternal. That can be realised only through Nishkama Karma(desireless action). Every action without ego leads to divinity. Ignoring this truth, man indulges inmeaningless actions.Whatever you do you must regard it as a duty done without any motive of self-interest or self gain. It isonly when all actions - whether they be Yagas or Yajnas or Tapas or any kind of Sadhana - are done asofferings to the Divine, will they become sanctified and liberating. Through desire filled actions we takebirth, through desireless actions we can attain freedom form re-birth.18. 11. 84Through right action one achieves purity of heart which leads to the acquisition of the higher knowledge(Jnana). When right action is coupled with Jnana, there is true service. To feel that one should be the soleenjoyer of the results of one’s actions is a sign of selfishness. It is naive to think that one alone is the doerof one’s actions. All the things in the world are not intended for the exclusive enjoyment of any singleperson. They are to be shared by all.20. 11. 84The right action you do today, by repetition becomes a ritual. Today’s ritual becomes tomorrow’s habit.And the habit is due course becomes a sadhana. Sadhana leads you to your life’s goal. Hence therealisation of the goal depends on your actions.Life is a sacred and precious gift. All actions should be done on the basis of this fact. One should not becowed down by the vicissitudes of life.22. 3. 85Good and bad conduct are present among men, but will not be apparent to others. The results of each one’sgood and bad deeds, however, will be reflected in each one’s future life.Everyone should be vigilant continuously regarding everyone of his actions. When the actions are bad,even a stick can turn into a snake. There is no escape from the consequences of one’s actions. Only byvigilance can disasters be avoided.

Can you escape from karma, oh man?Whatever your scholarship,Whatever your daily worship,Whatever penance you may perform.Can you avoid the results of karma?Whether you fill your vesselIn a small pondOr the vast oceanIt will be filled onlyUp to its capacity.If you keep watch over your actions, the results will be appropriate. You cannot indulge in sinful deedsand hope to realise the fruit of meritorious actions. Hence embark on good deeds and sanctify your life.6. 5. 85All your actions must be aimed at purifying your minds and hearts to experience the Divine. When theheart is pure, the light of wisdom shines. The illumined heart become the receptacle of pure love.Karma is the root cause of our birth. The root cause of karma is sorrow. Ignorance is the cause of sorrow.Ignorance itself is the result of Brahma (the delusion which makes one regard the real as unreal and theunreal as real). And as long as Brahma persists, the Brahman cannot be recognised. When we are rid ofthis delusion, then sorrow will cease. When sorrow goes, ignorance disappears.26. 5. 85You must see that every action of yours is pure and sacred. It should be based on truth and should beintelligent and purposeful.11. 12. 85Through Karma Yoga man achieves control of the senses and develops the qualities of universal love,forbearance and compassion.Apr. 86One’s birth is the result of one’s actions in previous lives.21. 2. 88Our condition in life is determined by our actions. Our habits are governed by our actions. Habitsdetermine conduct. And conduct determines our future. Hence it is supremely important how we act.Good and evil in life are determined by the nature of our actions.Action (Karma) is not limited to what you do with your hands. What you hear, what you see, what youspeak and even what you think - all of them constitute action. This means that the things you see, thewords you hear, the thoughts you think and the speech you make should all be pure. All that you take inthrough your five senses should be wholesome and pure, not merely your food alone.3. 9. 88As human birth is the result of Karma, there can be no escape from the consequences of Karma. As is youraction, so is the reaction to it.The law of Karma means that there is no escape from the consequences of your actions.doctrine lays down that one has to experience the results of his actions.The Karma1. 1. 93

In this world, man, with his body, senses and mind cannot be free from desires. But how is he to become‘desireless’. When he performs actions regarding himself, as the doer, the actions become fetters that bindhim. All actions which are performed with the feeling that they are intended as offerings to please theDivine, do not lead to bondage. They become ‘desireless’ actions.One has to recognise that it is the Divine principles in all beings which is getting all actions done throughhuman beings as intruments. As long as man regards himself as the doer and enjoyer he cannot escapefrom the consequences of his actions.Actions done with an impure heart can only produce undesirable results.Whatever good results you want to secure in the external world, inner purity iss the basis.6. 5. 95People want the fruits of meritorious deeds but they indulge in sinful action. How can you get good resultswhen your action is faulty or sinful?12. 7. 95One’s actions determine one’s future. Actions are of three kinds: Thoughts are one kind, giving expressionto them is another. Acting according to one’s words is the third. The mind is responsible for thoughts thetongue for speech and the hands for actions. The combination of thought, word and deed represents thehuman state. These three account for man’s pleasures and pain. Recognising tthis , one should understandthat he is accountable for his actions. No one can escape from the consequences of his deeds. Butanything can be achieved through God’s grace.The results of one’s actions are realised over different periods of time. In some cases, the results occurafter a few minutes or hours. For example, the food you take in the morning is digested after two hours.When you sow a seed in the ground, it takes some months or years to grow into a tree and yield fruits.Some fools imagine that they can get away with bad deeds because the consequences are not immediate.But the consequences are bound to occur some time or other.People who may have done no actions of any kind in their present lives may still suffer from theconsequences of their actions in previous lives.Everyone has to face the consequences of his actions, though he may not know how, when or where theseconsequences may occur. Man can reverse the consequences of bad actions by performing good deeds andinvoking God’s help.18. 8. 95Dedicate all actions to God. That is the way to experience oneness with God. God is in you. You are inGod. This oneness is the basic truth. Chant the name of the Lord and render social service in a spirit ofselflessness and devotion to God.22. 10. 95All actions should be done wholeheartedly. This was exemplified by the total devotion of the Gopikas toKrishna. They were lost in ecstasy over the melodius music of Krishna’s flute. They found in that musicthe essence of all the Vedas and the scriptures.18. 12. 95Every man takes birth as a result of karma (past actions). Karma is the cause of death! Thus karma is thecause of birth and death.Every action has an effect. In any action done by man, its consequence is present in a subtle form. Actionthus is related to its fruits. Moreover, time is also relation to action. Action and time are inextricablyinter-related.

Every action has its own course. One object is separated by space form another. Likewise, time is themeasure of the duration between one action and another.Action is the interval between two points of time. thus time and action go together. Hence everyoneshould recognise the intimate relationship between action and time.Every action, whether good or bad, has its consequence. There is no action in the world which is devoid ofconsequences. This is law of nature.You sow a seed. It becomes a sapling after some days. To bear fruit it takes some years. Thus everyaction has a consequence, but the time interval between action and result varies from case to case.Good actions produce good results and bad deeds have bad consequences. Recognition of the law ofkarma will make man lead proper lives. Man today takes to wrong paths because they have not realisedthis truth.KNOWLEDGE30. 9. 60Jnaana is the discrimination between what promotes one’s progress and what retards. Be your own Guru,your own teacher; you have the lamp with you, light it and march on without fear.Jnaana (spiritual wisdom) can be got through Bhakthi or Karma or Raajayoga. These three are onlydifferent names for the process of churning the milk for getting the butter which is immanent in it. Oncethe butter has been got and rolled into a ball, it can be kept separate and un-impired in the liquid where itwas all the time. Similarly the liberated person (Jnaani) can continue in the world free from attachment,once he has realised that he is of the same substance as the Immanent Brahman. When that Brahman isseen through Maayaa, it appears as Saguna (endowed with qualities) and is referred to as Lord orBhagavaan.How can that jnaana be earned? By a slow, systematic process, eliminating all limiting factors; greed, lust,pride, envy, hate and all the snaky brood of possessive instincts and impulses; by the educative influence ofDharma, the body of rules laid down by the experience of generations for the regulation of living; by study,rumination and practice; by analysis of the experiences of the waking, dreaming and sleeping stages; bylearning to be a witness of all this passing show without getting involved in its tangles; by overcoming alltrends that divide and differentiate.21. 10. 61He who is steady in Wisdom stands closest in the company of the Lord.23. 12. 61What is the use of searching for quiet, available only in the silence of the Inner Awareness, in the jungle ofPrakirithi (world)? It is like searching for something you have lost in your room under the street lamp.Your ‘self’ you have lost; search for it in you. . . that is the path of wisdom.16. 5. 64Through Bodha (knowledge) alone can Dharma be saved in the modern kali-age. That is why I amengaged in bodha (imparting knowledge), in this task of re-constructing through upadesha (instruction).When you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate. You have to keep them inside thesoil. So too, bodha(knowledge), if it is scattered on the surface, it will not germinate, grow into the tree ofknowledge and yield the fruit of wisdom. Plant it in the heart, water the plant with divine love, manure it

with Faith and courage, keepoff pests with insecticides of bhajan(group singing of holy names) andsathsangha (company of the holy), so that you can benefit in the end. You have not yet got started inSaadhana; still you demand Shanghai; you demand Grace. How is it ever possible? Start! Then, everythingwill be added unto you.16. 10. 64You must reach the terminous where ignorance dies and jnana is born; then, there is no more journey.Along the route, there are many pseudo-termini which tantalise you; but, you would not give up the journeyuntil you reach the real one. Calumny, scandal, loss, dishonour, poverty, distress, fame, pomp, triumph -all these call on you to aloght; but you should stick fast to the seat and never give up.3. 1. 65Jnaana (knowledge) is got by ceaseless dyaana (meditation of the glory and potence of the Almighty.3. 3. 65The body is the temple of the Self; the world is a structure raised on one strong pillar, ‘I’. For, when this‘I’ is dormant during deep sleep, there is no world, so far as you are concerned. Yuo are alone, when yousleep. Before you were born, there was no world for you. After you die, there is no world of whivh youare conscious. To get this jnaana (knowledge) fixed, you have to pass through the preparatory schools ofkarma (dedicated activity) and upasana (contemplation). Karma helps to cleanse the heart of egoisticimpulses; Upasana helps to focus attention of the Universal and the Absolute. Then jnaana emerges.25. 3. 65If only men knew the path to permanent joy and peace, they will not wander distracted among the bye-lanesof sensual pleasure. Just as the joy felt in dreams disappears when you wake, the joy felt in dreamsdisappears when you wake, the joy felt in the waking stage disappears when you wake into the higherawareness called jnaana.29. 3. 65Some people have their minds and senses like cotton balls and a spark of jnaana will set them ablaze andthey achieve victory! Some others have them like died jaggots; they take longer time, but, victory is certain.Most have minds and senses like green fuel and even the raging fire of jnaana may be put out by theonslaught of the moisture contained in them.30. 3. 65If you hit a tamarind fruit when it is green, the seed too will get the impact; but hit it with a stone or hammerwhen it is ripe, tthe seed will not get hurt. Be like the seed in the fruit; feel that you are unaffected by theblows of fate; when you get the jnaana that you are not the body but the self, then, no blow can hurt you.6. 4. 65Discriminate, discriminate all the time; use viveka and vijnaana( spiritual knowledge) and experience of thewaking stage, the dream stage and the stage of deep sleep. In the dream stage the senses are negated;Intellect does not work; only the mind is the master: it creates its own ‘world’ A tiger mauls you in thedream; a snake strikes deep into your leg. You feel all the pain and all the fear. How do you cure theunhappy man? there is no need to bring a doctor or a magician with his charm. Wake him; he is cured! Heknows that there was no tiger or snake or bite or pain. So too, jnaana will immediately remove all the dualexperiences of joy and grief, derived from these non-real objects.19. 4. 65It is only after you place a morsel on your tongue that you discover whether the salt in it is enough orwhether it has not been salted at all. Dhal requires salt; that is to say, the boiled dhal must have salt in it fortaste. So too, it is only when you have moved in the world and taken a slave in its activities according to amoral code , you discover the salt of jnaana, it does not taste well; take it with a springling of the salt ofjnaana, the knowledge that you are not the body but the resident of the body that you are but the witness ofthe ever - changing panorama of nature and you feel happy and peaceful

Slowly, step by step, confirm yourself in the thought of the Unity of the world in Brahman. Then, evenwithout praying and pleading, everything worthwhile will be added unto you.27. 9. 65Just as there are four stages in the life of everyone - boyhood, youth, middleage and old age - there are fourstages in his acquisition of jnaana, contemporaneous with these Mayas. Jnaana is the ripeness of the fruit;which is the consummation of a long process from the fresh spperance of the flower in the tree. The 1ststage is the apprentice stage, being trained by parents, teachers, elders; being led guided, regulated,warmed, reprimmanded. The 2nd stage is the junior craftsman stage; eager to establish happiness andjustice in society, eager to know the world and its work and values. The 3rd is the craftsman stage: pouringout energies to reform, reconstruct, remake the human community. The fourth stage is the master stage:realisation that the world is beyond redemption by human effort, that one can at best save oneself by tryingto reform the world, that it is all His Will, His Handiwork, His World, Himself.27. 3. 66Company of pious and holy men leads gradually to withdraw from the entangling activities. When a coldbit of coal is placed in the midst of glowing cinders and when the fire is janned, the coal too gets glowingwith fire. The Fire of wisdom (Jnaana-agni) operates similarly.19. 10. 66When you have attained treu wisdom, you will find that good fortune should not be gloated over, nor badfortune grieved over. The hero treats both with equal unconcern. They are breezes and stroms that cannotaffect the depths of the ocean of bliss in the heart of man.10. 3. 67Sow in the field of your heart the seeds of good thoughts, charged with humility; irrigate it with the watersof Love; protect the growing crop with the pesticide called Courage; feed the crop with the fertiliser,Concentration; then the devotional plants will yield the harvest of the eternal wisdom, that you were alwaysHe, though you did not know it so far.24. 5. 67Jnaana is the treasure that man has to accumulate, so that he can so realise and merge.26. 2. 68The angler uses rod and line; that line has a float from which hangs inside the water a sharp hook with aworm. The fish is drawn by the worm to the hook, the float shakes, the angler feels the pull of the fish onthe line, and he draws it on the land, where it is helpless, unable to breath. The body is the rod, theyearning, the eager longing, is the line, intelligence, is the float, discrimination is the hook; knowledge is theworm; Aathma, the fish, is caught thus by the cleaver angler. When you get spiritual wisdom (jnaana)divine status draws towards you.27. 9. 68The forces of lust, greed, anger, hate, pride, malice, envy and avance are celebrating triumphant victory -dances in the heart while the humbled victim, the prisoner in their hands, expects to be honnoured andlionised. The internal foes can be destroyed by the light of jnaana (the illumination that accompanies therealisation of the Reality).To acquire that illumination, one has to cultivate the spirit of impartial, steady, un-fluctuating inquiry, basedon the revelations made in the Vadhas about the nature of man and God, and the relation between the two.29. 9. 68Man is as ugly as a noseless face, if he has no wisdom, whatever other attainment he may decorate himselfwith! The yearning, the agony, the endeavour, to know Him and His Might and Majesty is the jewel to beproud of. The consciousness that God is the Indweller, who prompts and executes all that we feel, think

and do, that gives the inspiration to surrender the strength to dedicate, the urge to be but an instrument inHis hands for His purposes, is jnaana.18. 10. 69Remove all traces of salinity from your hearts adding to the soil the precious complements of the Name andForm of the Lord. Water it with Faith. Then plant the seedlings of Divinity; have discipline as the fence,and steadfastness as the pesticide to be sprayed. Then, you can reap the rich harvest of Jnaana, which willfree you from the task of cultivation for ever.20. 11. 70All beings and all things are Divine - but through intelligent analysis, you have to choose the beings andthings that will help you and to avoid the beings and things that will hinder you. This is the way ofWisdom.25. 12. 70Wisdom alone can grant full freedom. Just as the end of culture is progress, the end of knowledge is love,so the end of wisdom is freedom.7. 12. 78Jnaana (knowledge) is usually associated with two ways of acquisition - the worldly or the material and thespiritual or Brahman path. The worldly path is like a pair of scissors. It cuts knowledge into pieces. TheBrahman path is like a needle - it makes the separate parts into one and indivisible. The spiritual aspirantmust be aware of both.21. 9. 80True knowledge consists in cognising that, for all that you see, there is always a hidden cause. It cannot beknown by studying yanthra (machine) alone, but by studying the mind and taking to manthra (mentalenquiry).There are three types of knowledge. Knowledge of material energy, knowledge of mental energy andknowledge of cosmic energy. Cosmic energy works in every person, in the form of divine knowledge.23. 11. 80One may perform puuja (ritualistic worship) for hours or sit for meditation every day. But, if he has noknowledge of Divinity he is invoking or picturing, these are of no avail. Divinity is his own nature. He ishimself God. His Divine nature must express itself in daily living.1981There is knowledge of music, knowledge of arts, science etc. But all pale off into insignificance in the lightof the knowledge of the spirit. All other branches of knowledge are like riverlets which flow into the sea.Just as all rivers flow into the ocean, all types of education will find their true fulfilment when they lead andend up in spiritual knowledge and wisdom only.8. 3. 81Though mankind has achieved incalculable progress in science and technology, the mind of man is stillpolluted with greed, envy and gross selfishness. Egotism has struck deep roots in the heart of man. It hasgrown into demonic proportions. Man has become a puppet, yielding to every pull of the string. Hecraves all things that can confer joy on him; he accumulates things that cater to his sense of power. Heexamines every item from his own selfish point of view. Therefore, he is enslaved by the monsters - envy,pride, fear and prejudice. True knowledge alone can save mankind from ruinous downfall.2. 10. 81Knowledge can never ripen into wisdom so long as the ego persists in craving for results which can satisfydesire. When the ego fages away, knowledge can shine as wisdom.

7. 10. 81Man can earn wisdom only in and through the challenges the world offers and the opportunities forawareness that it confers. When once jnaana is attained, the world can be left to itself; one need not beinvolved in it or with it. It is like the daily newspaper. When it has been read once, only an insane personwill start reading it again. Today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s waste paper. When one has experienced theworld, it would be a sign of insanity to wish for experiencing it again. Man relishes consuming the samemeal day after day, washing the face every morning, listening to the same story on every occassion; he doesnot advance towards the Joy that awaits him.Utilise the world as the means to an end; do not desire to stay on it.20. 10. 82Things that confer joy can also confer grief, when their real nature is not understood. The counsel of thewise calms our mind and enthuses our hearts. But, sometimes, it may disturb the mind and depress theheart, when we feel it is denying or discouraging our pet plans and pleasures. But, the quality of thecounsel is, on both occassions, wisdom.22. 11. 82Knowledge must teach man to turn to God and discover that Nature too is God. Knowledge must awakenthe consciousness latent in man and become aware of the Aathma that underlies all its levels. Knowledgeclaims to increase man’s knowledge. What is that knowledge worth? Without character, that knowledge isbest cast into fire.30. 12. 82Knowledge progresses from doubt and discovery. Yesterday’s doubt is today’s knowledge. And today’sknowledge becomes tomorrow’s wisdom. Discover unity in multiplicity and know that it is Divinity. Atthe base of things, in the lowest level is Matter. Humanity is the higher, the upper, and divinity is thehighest, the uppermost level. Humans must dread and descent into the material level.31. 12. 83True knowledge can come only when one is confronted with an extreme moral crisis. This was thesituation Arjuna faced when he was placed between the two opposing armies. Parikshit faced a similarcrisis when he learnt he had only one week to live. It is at times of such crisis that one thinks of God andseeks Divine help.19. 1. 84True knowledge consists in understanding the unity that underlies the Cosmos. All the sufferings aandproblems in life arise from the sense of duality. Once the feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ is got rid of,consciousness of the all-pervading Divinity will be realised.28. 9. 84Atma Jnana dawns in man when he has purity of the heart. This purity can be achieved only throughKarmas. The body, the mind and the Atma, all three are involved in the human entity. They areinextricebly interdependent. When they become disparate, life loses its meaning.When the body is subject to the mind and the mind is controlled by the Atma, life finds fulfilment. Whenthe body alone is predominant, the human descends to the level of the animal. When the mind prevailsover the body and the sensory organs, the human level is attained. When the Atma prevails over the mindand the body, Divinity is realised. Recognising this fact, the Gita has indicated a three - stage path todivinity. Engaging the body in good deeds, using the mind to develop good thoughts and human qualitiesand to contemplate on God through Upasana man reaches the stage when, like a river joining the ocean, hemerges in the Brahman. This is the process by which the human becomes one with the Divine.2. 7. 85What is meant by Jnana? The awareness of the One, without a second, is Jnanam, or the supreme wisdom.

2. 1. 87True knowledge can come only when one is confronted with an extreme moral crisis. It is at times of suchcrises that one thinks of God and seeks Divine help.Wisdom dawns when man realises that the body he believed to be his is understood as only temporaryhesitation and a burden he assumed out of sheer ignorance.Activity finds fulfilment when wisdom dawns. Karma is the path by which Jnana is attained and, wisdomin action is the highest karma. Worthwhile activity must result in purifying the mind.knowledge is the raft afloat on the ocean of ignorance2. 7. 89Today great advances have been made in science and technology. But human character and morality havenot made corresponding progress. Knowledge without discrimination is dangerous. Atomic power isbeing harnessed for destructive purposes. How much could be done for improving production and raisingthe condition of the people if all this energy could be used for peaceful and productive purposes.Knowledge should improve people's well-being and not cause harm to them.True knowledge can come only when one is confronted with an extreme moral crisis. It is at times of suchcrisis that one thinks of God and seeks Divine help.1. 1. 91Activity finds fulfilment when wisdom dawns. Karma is the path by which Jnana is attained. And wisdomin action is the highest Karma. Worthwhile activity must result in purifying the mind.Knowledge is the raft afloat on the ocean of ignorance.Self-knowledge is self-realisation. Constant contemplation on the Self is the means of experiencing thedirect vision of God. What is the Self? That is Atma. When you refer to the `I' that is the Self. Who isthis `I'? Is it the body? Or is it the mind? Or the intellect (Buddhi)? Or the Atma (indwelling spirit)? Whenyou enquire into this question you realise that the Atma alone is `I'.25. 12. 94Knowledge without right action is useless. Mere action without knowledge is foolishness. Hence, it isnecessary to combine knowledge with cultivation of character.The most important requisite for man in the world is truth based on thought. True thoughts constitute theproper wealth for man. But, alas, modern man makes no efforts to cultivate good thoughts. The absenceof good thoughts weakens the will power. With a weak will man cannot accomplish even simple things.To achieve anything worthwhile in life man has to strengthen his will power.20. 5. 95In this work - a - day world, knowledge is the adomment for man. It is hidden wealth. It is the basis forfame, happiness and comforts. It is a teacher for teachers. It serves as a relation when one goes abroad.It is like a third eye for a man. Such sacred knowledge qualifies the person for honour at the courts ofkings. It is more precious than riches. A man without such sacred knowledge is verily like an animal.8. 7. 95In order to light the jyothi you need four things: - a container, oil, wick and a match - stick to light it. Fordispelling the darkness, you need these four. Similarly for dispelling the darkness withing you, you needthe Jyothi of Wisdom.29. 8. 95

The body is the temple in the centre of which the Ganga of Wisdom is flowing. In this ganga of Wisdomthe two rivers of Devotion and Earnestness (represented by Yamuna and Saraswathi) merge and the point ofconjunction of the three is known as Prayag. Hence, the Divine should be offered what is most pleasing toone.22. 10. 95It must be realised that it is difficult to secure human birth. Having acquired this privilege, human beingsshould not be content with what is seen by the physical eyes. Man should acquire the eyes of wisdom(jnaana netra).To have a vision of the Lord, the physical eyes are not competent. One must acquire the eyes of wisdomfor this purpose.LIBERATION10. 7. 59All the taste and all the forces and roar of the wave are derived from the ocean and they disappear into theOcean itself. The disappearance of the wave form and the wave-name is called Miksha (liberation); that is,merging of the wave in the ocean from which it seemed to differ. De individualisation is in other words,liberation.21. 10. 61Release from bondage to unborn impulses is the Real Liberation.24. 5. 62Without surrender, there can be no liberation. So long as you cling to the narrow ‘I’, the four prison wallswill close in on you. Cross out the ‘I’ and you are free. How to kill the ‘I’? Place it at the fett of Lord andsay, ‘You’, not ‘I’ - and you are free of the burden that is crushing you.1. 1. 64When the obstacles in the path of truth are laid low, deliverance is achieved. That is why moksha(liberation) is something that can be won, here and now; one need not wait for the dissolution of thephysical body for that.11. 2. 64If liberation means the stoppage of grief and the acquisition of joy, then, it is easy. What you have to do isto place all your burdens to God; that makes you care-free, grief-free. Then, when you take everything asthe Leela (Divine play) of the Lord, you clap your hands in the bliss whatever may happen, for it is all HisDivine play and you are as happy as He is, when His plans are going through!.The minute hand of the clock is the individual soul, the bird that eats the fruits. It goes round and roundbut, the hour hand moves silently and slowly, with a certain dignity. The hour hand can be said to be theSupreme Soul. Once an hour the two meet, but the individual soul does not get that consummation fixedfor ever. It loses the precious chance and so has to go round and round again and again. Liberation iswhen the two merge, and only one remains.When the obstacles in the path of truth are laid low, deliverance is achieved. That is why miksha(liberation) is something that can be won, heere and now; one need not wait for the dissolution of thephysical body for that.14. 10. 64Every one of you has in possession a ticket for liberation from the cycle of birth and death. But, most donot know the train which they have to board; many get down at intermediate stations, imagining them to bethe terminus and wander helplessly in the wilderness or are carried away by sights and scenes.

2. 3. 65Liberation is just the awareness of Truth, the falling off of the scales of dillusion from the eye. It is not aspecial supurb of select souls; it is not a closed monopoly of expert saadhakas. Like the Godaavari losingits form, its name and its taste in the sea, liberation dissolves the name and form, aptitudes and attitudes.You are no more separate, particular, individual.25. 3. 65You must tread the spiritual path with an uncontrollable urge to reach the Goal; you must cultivate theyearning for liberation from all this encumbrance. Remember that you have to dwell in a house built onfour stout pillars: dharma, artha, kaama and moksha (righteousness, wealth and liberation);. Dharmasupporting artha and moksha being the only kaama or desire. However much you may earn either wealthor strength, unless you tap the springs of aanandha (bliss) within you, you cannot have peace and lastingcontent.2. 4. 65Seeing one’s own reality is the opening of the doors of liberation; for this, the mirror of the heart has to beprepared, by coating the back of the heart with Sathya and dharma. Otherwise, the imge will not appear.In every act of yours, if you observe and justice, then you can see your own reality revealed.1966Attach yourself to the good and earn detachment; detachment will liberate you from illusions; that will makeyou steady in the faith, in the Principle; that faith will liberate you. So, certain disciplines have to befollowed to realise the truth about oneself.16. 3. 66When the yearning for Liberation has become intense beyond expression, man can set aside all socialconventions, worldly norms and codes of conduct that do not subserve that high purpose.11. 11. 66Develop physical health and mental alertness and cleaverness in discovering the way to lasting happiness;then you will have attachment, which if turned to God becomes devotion which promotes detachment fromall that distracts the mind away from God and leads to liberation.3. 9. 69The receptacle may be different, but the Divine content is the same. The taste of sea water will be salinewhether you test a truck load, a bowlful, a potful, or a sip or a drop on the tongue! The taste of the Divinecan be experienced in the atom or the cosmos, the friend as well as the foe, the virus and the Universe.This is the Realisation, the Liberation, the Illumination, the Revelation!14. 1. 70Be happy that you have within you the source of power, wisdom and joy. Announce that you areunconquerable and free, that you cannot be tempted or frightened into wrong. So long as a trace of ‘I-amthe-body’consciousness persists in you, you have yourslef to search for God; you have to approach themirror, the mirror will not proceed towards you, to show you, as you really are. Open the twin doors of lustand anger, remove the bolt of greed, then, you can enter the sacred precints of Liberation.1. 6. 70Liberation comes through intellectual awareness of the unity, that underlies the diversity15. 8. 70One gets the Liberating Wisdom of the Reality through Grace or Prayer or Prema.You cannot achieve the goal, throught good words alone. In Good, there is an extra O; a something that ismere zero! That is to say, the desire which prompts you, the fruit which entices you, the reputation that

tantalises you - these are all sheer Zero, a big O. Leave it off; then we have Good with a zero less, with noself intruding, that is to say, we have God.4. 10. 70The secret of liberation lies, not in the mystic formula that is whispered in the ear and rotated on the rosary,it ;ies in the stepping out into action, the walking forward in practice, the pious pilgrim route and thetriumphant reaching of the Goal. The best Guru is the Divine in you; yearn for hearing His Voice, HisUpadesh.6. 10. 70Let not defeat or success alter your inner calm, inner joy. See your self as yourself unreleated to others orto the objective world. When you know your self as yourself, you are liberated: that is Moksha. Mokshais not a Five-starred Hotel, or a Deluxe Tourist Home. It is just the awareness of your reality and therejection of all contary conceptions. you can recognise yourself quickly and clearly if you purify your heartby manthra or by the singing of the glory of God. Both will grant you the boon.10. 10. 70Liberation is disappearance of delusion.20. 11. 70The sages have laid down four goals for man on earth: dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth),karma(desire) and moksha(liberation). That is to say, man must earn wealth through righteous means anddesire above all for liberation from the see-saw of duality. Liberation is the goal that must dominate all theactivities of life. The rest of the three have to be subordinate.If you nee flowers from a tree or its fruits, you do not water the boughs and twigs, where the leaves, budsand shoots are! You feed the roots! So too, when you seek the last of the four, liberation for dharma; thatwill sanctify your wealth, and purify your desire and win for you the liberation you strive for. Developdharma and let it saturate your efforts to earn wealth and comfort.6. 3. 77Man has to manifest the Divine in him and lead and guide all living beings in that adventure. He has toliberate himself by his efforts and liberate all life by his example. He must become free and secure in hisown source. This is what is called Miksha (liberation). He is liberated from littleness into vastness, frombondage to bondless Bliss.14. 4. 95There is one common quality present in all living beings : Moha or attachment. This quality is presentequally in human beings. But man alone has the competence to overcome this attachment and attainliberation.The Maya (illusion) which envelops man drives him to take to wrong courses. Maya has three qualities.Sathwa, Rajas and Thamas (Purity, Passion and inertia). Through these qualities man tends to forget hisdivinity and humanness and behave like an animal. The three qualities of Maya and the three forms ofMoha combine to make man a demon. The three forms of Moha are desire for wealth, attachment to thewife and attachment to children. These three makes man a slave to attachment. The man who conquersthese three desires can transcend moha. When Moha declines, Miksha becomes attainable. Liberation isthe elimination of Moha (attachment). Everyone should strive to bring under control these three desires.22. 10. 95People speak about liberation. What is it from which they have to be liberated? Is it from family, wealth orposition? No. Liberation from this is an easy affair. Liberation is from the sense of identification with thebody. The body is only an instrument and not your true self. The body is a gift from God. It does notbelong to you, but you have to protect it as an instrument given to you. Everything belongs to God. You

have to treat it as a trust and not as your private property. It is therefore, your duty to make right use of thebody and senses given to you.LIFE2. 55Devotion and faith are the two oars with which you can take the boat across the sea of samsaara.4. 57I would advise you to become the Murali, for then the Lord will come to you, pick you up, put you to Hislips and breathe through you and, out of the hollowness of your heart due to the utter absence of egoism thatyou have developed, He will create captivating music for all Creation to enjoy. Be straight without anywill of your own, merge your will in the Will of God. Inhale only the breath of God. That is Divine Life,that is what I want you all to achieve3. 9. 58For the crop of life, courage and confidence are the best manure; they are also best insecticides.20. 12. 58Life is a pilgrimage to God; the holy spot is there, afar! The road lies before you; but unless you take thefirst step forward and follow that step with others, how can you reach it? Start with courage, faith, joy andsteadiness. You are bound to succeed.10. 7. 59This life which begins with a wail must end with a smile. When you were a little baby, all round yousmiled though you kept on wailing. But when you die all around you must weep at the loss and you shouldsmile in peace and queit resignation. The pleasures from sensual enjoyment must finally be converted intohappiness from divine union; the pleasures of the senses must gradually be left behind and you mustdevelop a taste for the higher and more lasting pleasures derivable from the springs of your own personality.The fish are happy because they are immersed in water; when thrown out of the water, they struggle andsuffer mortal pain. So too, man is happy when he is immersed in Love, Peace and Truth; those are thecomponents of the water that gives him life; when he is thrown out of the water, he also suffers and feelsterribly miserable. Life is ‘being’ thrown out of the water; spiritual discipline is the struggle to leap backinto the life -giving element. For success in this struggle, do not depend upon another; depend uponyourself and on the Grace of God.25. 11. 59Be eager and earnest to know more and more about the art of joyful living, happy unpurturbed living. Onecan advance only step by step and there is the danger of slipping down two steps when you climb one.what matters is the determination to climb, the resistance with which the sliding tendency is met, theyearning to rise to progress, to conquer the lower impulses and instincts. If you have that, the hiddenspring of power will surge up within you; the Grace of the Lord will smooth your path. Keep the idealbefore you; march on.17. 3. 61Life is like a flight of steps towards the Godhead. You have your foot on the first step when you are born;each day is a step that must be climbed; so be steady, watchful and earnest. Do not count the steps aheador exult over the steps behind. One step at a time and that well climbed, that is enough success to besatisfied with and to give you encouragement for the next one. Do not slide from the step you have gotupon. Every step is a victory to be cherished; everyday wasted in a defeat to be ashamed of.25. 4. 61

The vehicle of human life is drawn on two wheels by the senses which are driven by buddhi (intellect), withviveka and vairaagya (discrimination and detachment) as the reins, the two wheels being the Kaala chakraand the Karma chakra (the wheels of Time and Action). The spokes of the wheel are the rules of dharma,bound by the rim of Prema. The self is the Rider and he will not come to harm if the axle is Sathya and thegoal is Shanthi.18. 7. 61A life lived in Love and Humility will gain the respect of all and will also be full of Peace. Do not ask oflife only joy and happiness, but, take cheerfully all that comes to you. You cannot insist that the doctorgives you only sweet medicines. Have the hardihood to bear sorrow as ressignedly as you bear joy.Remember that death is inescapable, that life is but an interlude, that the world is but a caravansani and, youwill get the strength to pass through the pilgrimage of this birth.10. 10. 61Do every act as an offering to the Lord, without being elated by success or dejected by defeat; this gives thepoise and equanimity needed for sailing through the waters of the ocean of life.1. 1. 64The lotus, born in slime and mud, rises up through the water and lifts its head high above the waters; itrefuses to get wet though water is the element which gives it life! Be like the lotus.Sail in the boat that floats on water; but, do not allow the water to enter the boat. Be in worldly life, but, donot allow it to get into you.25. 2. 64Make four resolutions about your life hereafter:1) Purity - Desist from wicked thoughts, bad habits, low activities that weaken your self respect.2) Service - Serve others for they are the reflection of the same entity of which you are yourself anotherreflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except with reference to the One Original.3) Mutuality - Feel always kinship with all creation. See the same current flowing through all objects in theUniverse.4) Truth - Do not deceive yourself or others, by distorting your experience.13. 3. 64Life is a mirage; it comes from no visible rain; it falls into no recognisable sea.14. 8. 64The mind must become bhakthimaya (saturated with devotion to God); the intelligence must be transformedinto jnaana - dheepthi (the splendour of universal wisdom), or jnaana (Divine knowledge); the body must bea willing and efficient instrument for Saddharmacharana (the practice of righteousness). Such a life isindeed the crown and glory of humanity. The rest are contaminated, contained, caged lives!10. 10. 64Practice renunciation from now on, that you may sit out on the journey when call comes. You don’t knowwhen. Or at that moment, you will be in tears, when you think of the house you have built, the propertyyou have accumulated, the fame you have amassed, the titles you have won. Know that all this is for thefleeting moment; develop attachment to the Lord, who will be with you whenever you go. Only the yearsthat you have lived with the Lord have to be counted as life; the rest are all out of count.4. 12. 64Life itself is a market, where giving and taking, bargaining and speculating are part of the game. Life hasits ups and downs, its profits ans losses, its balance sheets and disappointments, its joys and sorrows. Butthe giving of bhakthi in exchange for liberation is the most profitable business of all.5. 12. 64

The sorrows of life can be ended not through hatred and injustice; these only breed more of the species.They will yield only to nobler and higher thoughts and experiences, germinating from the pure heart wherethe Lord resides.12. 12. 64Life should be frittered away in accumulating riches; it should be spent in knowing about the glory of Godand in realising Him in the innermost being of oneself. No other intellectual exercise can give such joy.3. 1. 65Two things are essential for happy life. Dhaanya and Dhyaana. Dhaanya (grains) for the sustenance of theBody and Dhyaana (contemplation) for entering the temple of the Lord and merging in Hid Glory.20. 2. 65Remember always that it is easy to do what is pleasant; but it is difficult to be engaged in what is beneficial.Not all that is pleasant is profitable. Success comes to those who give up the path strewn with roses andbrave the hammer - blows and sword-thrusts of the path fraught with danger. As a matter of fact, no road isstrewn with rose petals. Life is a battle field, where duties and desires are always in conflict. Smother thefiery fumes of desire, of hatred and anger that rise up in your hearts; it is sheer cowardice to yield to theseenemies that turn you into beasts. When obstacles come meet them with courage. They harden you, makeyou tough.26. 3. 65Do not divert all your energy to the cravings of the body, which ages every minute and is fast movingtowards the burial ground. Life is a three - day fair; it is like a flower that fades by eventide. Oldage,when physical charm is lost and when you have to depend on others for everything, will soon be upon all.Prepare then for death, have the equipment to meet it calmly, joyfully, with quiet resignation to the Will ofthe Lord. You cannot get it in a trice, when you want it, it is the result of long years of practice. See thehand of God in everything that happens; then you will not exult or grieve. Then your life will be onecantinuous puja or dhyaana.6. 4. 65Life is a steady march towards s goal, it is not a meaningless term of imprisonment or a stupid kind ofpicnic. Be patient, humble; don’t rush to conclusions about others and their motives.10. 4. 65The arena of life is raised on four pillars: Dharma, Artha, Kaama and Moksha (Righteousness, Wealth,Desire and Liberation). They sustain and support. When the arena loses two and strugglles to stand on theremaining two, viz. , artha and kaama, naturally, anxiety, pretence, grief and greed afflict mankind. Eachpillar must co-operate and complement the parts that the other three play. Dharma must sublimate artha,that is to say, through moral means alone should the means of living be obtained. Artha must be wonthrough dharma and used in dharma. Kaama must be primarily for moksha; that is to say, desire must bedirected to liberation from bondage, not to the forging of new chains or the addition of further links in thechain of birth and death.3. 10. 65Give the leaf, the flower, the fruit that has grown on the tree of your life; the fragrant leaves of your mentalresolves and plans, the sweet juicy fruits of your own activities and thoughts.God has given you ‘the heart’ yo use in life; return it to Him as clean and as pure as when He gave it, afterusing it for storing prema, shanthi, dharma and sathya and for distributing them to all who came in contactwith you.4. 10. 65Man does not belong to anywhere except to God. This is the native land. Journey to His native land, ishis mission in life.

1966The tree of life is dried up if the roots are eaten up by greed or envy or hate. Education must train childrento love, to co-operate, to be brave in the cause of truth, to be helpful, to be sympathetic and to be grateful.The training must be supplemented by the conduct of the teachers, the parents, and the elders. There is nouse teaching the children one thing and holding out example of the opposite before them.The goal of life should be the earning of Aathmic faith. That alone confers great joy; that alone is truereligion.14. 1. 66The tree of life is a tree of delusion, with all its branches and leaves and flowers of maaya. You can realiseit as such, when you do all acts as dedicated offerings for God. See Him as the sap through every cell asthe Sun warming and building every part. See Him in all; worship Him through all, for He is all. Engagein activity, but, fill the activity with devotion: it is the devotion that sanctifies.19. 2. 66Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy.16. 3. 66Life is a campaign against foes, it is a battle with obstacles, temptations, hardships, hesitations. these foesare within man and so, the battle has to be incessant and perpetual. Like the virus that thieves on the‘bloodstream, the vices of lust, greed, hate, malice, pride and envy sap the energy and faith of man andreduce him to untimely fall.23. 3. 66Let not your faith in the goal or the road quake before trouble or trial, toil or travail, distress or despair.They are but passing clouds, casting temporary shadows, hiding for a little time the glory of the sun ormoon. Do not get distracted by doubt or despondency. Build the mansion of your life on four firm pillars:dharma, artha, kaama and moksha (virtue, wealth, desire and liberation), the goals of human effort laiddown by the ancient sages, each pillar bound strong and safe with every other. Do not allow the pillars toslant or tumble as many individauls, communities and nations doing now.3. 8. 66The tree of life has to be watered at the roots, but now, those who plan to raise the standard of living, waterthe branches, the leaves and the blossoms. The roots are the virtues; they have to be fostered so that theflowers of actions, words and thoughts may bloom in fragrance and yield the fruit of seva (service), full ofsweet juice of aanandha.Life is an opportunity offered to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and grander; tomaster oneself and merge in the Reality.The tree of life can yield the fruit of aanandha only when it is watered by virtue and fed on faith. Provisionof food, clothing and shelter will not ensure peace and joy; they can come only through virtue and faith.Virtue alone can endow love and sympathy. We are now putting the cart (the body) before the horse(mind) and providing for the safety and strength of the cart only. The horse (mind) is allowed to grow wildor is starved.19. 10. 66Take the ups and downs of life as natural; they are incidental to the world of compounds and components.22. 4. 67Life is a jungle, where there is a great deal of dry wood which harbours worms and insects. No one cleansthe floor of the forest or cuts away the undergrowth of bush and bramble. To wade through the thorns andthe leech-ridden floor of the jungle, one has to wear boots. So too, one has to wear the boots of sense -

egulation if one has to pass through the jungle of life, without harming oneself. This is the lesson I wantyou to carry home with you today, for pondering over and for practise.23. 5. 67Just as sparrows during a storm fly towards a warm shelter, man too must take shelter in the DivinePrinciple to escape from the storms of life.6. 11. 67Life as man is the chance given to every one to achieve one glorious end, namely realising the Atma and itsUniversality.13. 1. 68Man walks with two legs; like a para (this world and other), righteousnesss and God! If he istotallyengrossed in this world, he is choosing to travel all his life with a handicap; hopping on one leg. That isfraught with trouble; he may fall any moment and break his skin. And he does! Goodness in this world,Godliness for the life after death - equal attention to both, vigilance while taking a step, with either foot,these are essential for a happy journey through life.22. 2. 68Life has to spent in accumulating virtue and safe guarding virtue, not riches. Listen and ruminate over thestories of the great moral heroes of the past, so that their ideals may be imprinted on your hearts.Unless each one is respected, whatever his status, his economic condition, his spiritual development, therecan be no peace and no happiness in life. This respect can be aroused only by the conviction that the sameAathma (self Reality) that is in you is playing the role of the other person. See that Aathma in others; feelthat they too have hunger, thirst, yearning and desires as you have; develop sympathy and the anxiety toserve and be useful.5. 3. 68Life is a pilgrimage, where man drags his feet along the rough and thorny road. With the Name of God inhis heart, he will feel no exhaustion. The company of the holy will inspire him to travel in hope and faith.The assurance that God is within call, that He is ever near, will lend strength to his limbs and courage to hiseye.29. 3. 68Life is but the interval between birth and death, a procession towards the grave that starts at the verymoment of birth.Have God as your lamp, you can pass through life in safety.18. 6. 68The body is the bridegroom for the Life principle which is the bride; this is the wedlock in every life. Asthe body enfolds, guards and fosters life, the Lord maintains the vital principle enshrined in man, so that itmay realise Him.4. 7. 68The purpose of ‘living’ is to achieve ‘living in God’ Everyone is entitled to that consecration andconsumation. You are the Truth; do not lose faith; do not belittle yourselves. You are Divine, howeveroften you slide from humanity, to animality, or even lower7. 7. 68Life is a newspaper; read it in a casual manner, headlines, a few columns that catch your fancy and throw itaside. Do not make it more important than that. Tomorrow, it is ‘waste paper’! So too, life is worth onlya casual perusal; do not lay it aside for a second perusal. One birth is enough; let the death coming to yoube the last.

23. 9. 68The duration of life is under the control of Him who gave life, the Creator. It does not depend on thecalories of food consumed or the quantity of drugs that are injected, or the qualifications of the physicianwho prescribes the medicines. The chief causes of ill-health and death are fear and loss of faith. If oneconcentrates on the aathma, which has no change or characteristics, no subtraction or senility, no decline ordamage, man can conquer death. Therefore, the most effective prescribtion is the injection of aathma -vidhya (knowledge of the Soul as one’s real Self).29. 9. 68Life is just a chance to see for yourselves your begining and your end. Every clock has some one who hasamde it and who is winding it so that it may work. You too have One, who has the key and who winds.Discover Him. The clock shows thw time for all who need. It looks for no reward, it does not care whyyou are anxious to know the time; it ticks unceasingly, night or day, fair weather or foul. Be like the clock.15. 5. 69You do not see the foundations of a multi-storyed sky-scraper. Can you, therefore, argue that it simply setson the ground? The foundations of this life are laid deep in the past, in lives already lived by you. Thisstructure has been shaped by the ground plan of those lives. The unseen decides the bends and the ends;the number of floors, the height and weight.12. 10. 69Life is a bridge over the sea of change; pass over it, but do not build a house on it.15. 10. 69Reduce the luggage you carry about, when on the journey of life. Remember, all that is not ‘you’ isluggage! You are not the body. So, the body is an item of luggage. The mind, senses, the intelligence, theimagination, the desires, the plans, the prejudices, the discontent, the distress - all are items of luggage.Jettison them soon , to make your travel lightter, safer and more comfortable.14. 1. 70Inquire into the Will of God, discover the Commands of God, guess what will please Him most, andregulate your life accordingly.Do not get caught in the sticky tangles of outer Nature. Do not harden your heart through greed and hate.Soften it with Love. Cleanse it through pure habits of living and thinking. Use it as the shrine, whereinyou instal your God.12. 5. 70Love is the impetus and Truth is the gain; they are the two wheels of the chariot of life.1. 6. 70The craving is now for the easy life, the smooth life, the life with less and less of physical hardship; buthealth, can only come through a keen appetite and strong limbs and deep hunger and strenaous work.Make your thoughts nobler and engage in some hard work. The more idle time you have at your disposal,the greater opportunities you have to stray away from thought of seva, of saadhana and of the Inner Truth.Fill every moment with some constructive, beneficial activity, dedicating it to God, the Master who directsthe activity, invisibly but inevitably!9. 6. 70Welcome the tragedy and fight your way through, with the armour of the Memory Divine. As all rivershurry towards the sea, let all your imagining wend their way to God. The play is His; the role is His Gift;the lines are written by Him; He decides the dress and decoration, the gesture and the tone, the entrance andthe exit. You have to aact well the part and receive His approbation, when the curtain faals. Earn by yourefficiency and enthusiasm - the right to play higher and higher roles - that is the meaning and purpose oflife.

15. 8. 70Desire plus Life, is Man! Life minus desire is God.9. 10. 70When you shift your house from the old one, people will find you filling carts with old and useless shoes,mats, brooms and all sorts of cumbrous impediments! You dare not throw them out, for long association hasrooted them in your affection. Travel light, even in the journey of life.20. 11. 70Cultivate detachment, develop renunciation and keep desire in check. The end of human life is not wealthor vanity, gold or worldly fame. Be moral, be virtuous. Be sincere in thought, deed and word. Be honestto yourself. Money comes and goes! But morality comes and grows! So, man has to give up the yearningfor money and yearn for more and more morality.4. 73Forbearance, compassion and incompatible, virtue are the three pillars of a happy life. Only such a life canbe called civilised.Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain; grief is an interval between two moments of joy, peace is the interludebetween two wars. You have no rose without thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks, and gather theflower. There is no bee without the sting; cleaverness consists in gathering the honey neverthless.Troubles and travail will haunt you, but you must not allow them to deflect you from the path of duty anddedication.Life is to be dedicated not for mere food and drink, or mere catering to the cravings of the senses. It has tobe devoted to the attainment of the aanandha that God alone can confer. Of course, worries and fears therewill always be along the road that you take from birth to death. But you can ever be free from birth,provided you have as the Giver of Light, the name, Sai Ram.4. 4. 75Understand that the purpose of life is - to know the Embodiment of love, namely, God, through love, anddemonstrate through your own love that you have known Him.25. 7. 75Life is a struggle between the forces of good and evil, of joy and grief, of success and failure.23. 11. 75Life suatained by food is short; life sustained by the Aathman (Divine Spirit) is eternal. Do not lay claim tolong life, but to Divine life. Do not pine for more years on earth, but for more virtues in the heart.4. 12. 76Life today is filled with sorrow, it is beset with fear and despair. The only time you can forget thesethoughts and strengthen yourself to meet the hard times is when you contact the source of all strength, God.You cannot get that peace and joy while you bend under the burden of daily life. You are carrying a hugeload of worry all day; keep that aside for an hour every evening and spend that time with God who canmake your shoulders strong and your burden light.25. 12. 76The sole purpose of this human career is to propagate the Omnipresence of God, His might and Glory. Noone has incarnated for meerely consuming quantities of food and catering to one’s senses. Human life ismuch more precious than that. That is why the capacity to appreciate beauty, truth and goodness has beenendowed only on man.18. 2. 80

Life is a tree. The natural relationship we cultivate and cherish is symbolised by the branches, twigs andleaves; the thoughts arising in the mind are the flowers; aanandha (bliss) is the fruit, and dharma (virtue) isthe sweet juice it contains. The tree is held firm by the very roots which feed it - roots that symbolises faithand self-confidence.21. 9. 80Moksha (liberation) is not a distinct and different saadhana (spiritual discipline). It is only giving upunnecessary desires. Through anger wisdom is lost, disharmony is the cause of anger; of disharmony,jealousy and of jealousy, ignorance is the cause.Life is holy, sacred. Go through it with joy and happiness. Do not carry gloomy unhappy faces.Happiness is union with God.1981It is not sufficient holding a mala and doing japa, once in the morning during the Brahma muhurta time,once in the afternoon and once in the evening. All the twenty four hours you should be havingremembrance of God. You should all the time be striving to awaken the spirit within you and for itsblossoming. This is the real purpose of life.22. 4. 81The Paramaathma, who is the One Fullness, has willed mankind which is co-sharer of that Fullness. Manhas to fulfil himself, half through the Grace of the effort and half through the Grace of the indwellingDivine. Awareness of this Fullness, escaping from the illusion of incompleteness, is the goal, thedestination of human life.12. 5. 81From the tree of your life, to pick out such fruit which you have protected and which you have grown in theform of good qualities and offering them to God, there is some distinctiveness in that. In order to promotegood qualities that your mind can also acquire a divine concentration. Without good qualities and withoutgood thoughts, how can you fix your mind in meditation?17. 7. 81Life must have an ideal before it, it must proceed towards a goal; it must be a constant march. Life has asits sole purpose the divinity of man, the traansformation of the ‘man’ we profess to be into the God wereally are.Do not restrict the God of the Universe to any one Name and Form. Love all names os forms. Expandyour letter world-wide. Just consider; when boiled dhal is sewed for lunch, if it has less salt, you set itaside. We take such great care a moments sensation on the tongue. Well, when we have to spend 70 or 80years of life on earth, imagine the care we must taketo see that we realise the purpose of life.Virtue is the salt of life. Love is the highest virtue: Develop love by sharing it. Revere the Universe asyour Guru.31. 8. 81For a meal that takes up a few minutes, we take trouble to make it a tasty delightful experience. Then for alife that covers long decades should we not take the trouble to make it tasty? What impacts taste to living?Good thoughts, clean habits, virtues, good deeds - these provide charms and delight to life,3. 10. 81Unless you give up, you cannot acquire - this is the rule of life.Purpose gives taste to living. When the boiled lentils on your plate lacks salt, you push it aside! But, youwade through years and years leading tasteless, insipid lives without God added to life.

8. 10. 81Make your daily life holy and pure. Render your life worth-while through service to man and service tosociety. This is the most important aspect of surrendering the self.26. 10. 81Make the most profitable use of this present period of your lives. Do not waste the hours in irrelevance andirreverence. Do not indulge in the condemnation of others or in self-condemnation.25. 5. 82Means of living and the Goal of living are the two wings; the two wheels are material and spiritual, skill andsaadhana.30. 12. 82Life must be hightened and lightened by self-sacrifice. How can a cup full of water take on milk? Thewater has to be poured out. When the cup of the heart is full of evil, no virtue can be stored therein. Youneed not renounce action; you can renounce the idea of aggrandizement or ownership when the actionresults in victory or defeat.31. 12. 83Life is a constant succession of happiness and sorrow. To be free from these opposites one has to cultivatedetachment. This detachment is renunciation.19. 1. 84It is everyone’s duty to develop faith in God. With the growth of faith, if one leads a life based on Truth,Righteousness and Justice, he will be achieving the purpose of life.23. 3. 84You must ensure that living is a purposeful process. Without such a faith, life is rendered wild andwasteful. With it, you can attain Divinity. The faith will induce a regulated and disciplined life.14. 5. 84For right living, righteousness and character are essential. The divine is the life - breath of man. Thefulfilment of life consists in dedicating all one’s energies to these objectives. Man, however, does not havefaith in the divine. Whether one believes in God or not, one can see from moment to moment evidence ofthe presence of Divinity wherever one turns. Without Divinity humanness will not blossom.A man’s life shines amidst enormous vicissitudes only when displaying qualities like equanimity andcompassion. Because man covers his mind in a cloak of ignorance, blinkers his eyes with egoism andcloses his heart with the doors of pride, he forgets the Lord who created him and protects him. Such a manis unable to listen to any teaching. He worsships at the shrine of the sense organs. As his desires go onmounting, he is unable to listen to what is wholesome for him. He has no relish for the company of thegood. He has no awareness of the transience of life. He does not realise that his life and all that he enjoysmay pass away in a moment. He does not recognise the passing nature of both joy and sorrow, pleasureand pain, success and failure. Obsessed with the acquisition of wealth and power, he does not realise theDivinity that is his essential nature. Immersed in ignorance, he wastes his life in the pursuit ofimpermanent things.Life consists of a constant interchange of pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, heat and cold. Happiness is aninterval between two pains. The sound rind that covers an orange protects the sweet juice inside. Wemust look upon pain, anxiety and sorrow as the protecting cover for the peace and bliss that is experiencedlater.It is a mistake to seek an unending series of pleasures and comforts in life. Real happiness cannot be foundthat way. Without experiencing difficulties and trouble one cannot know the value of peace and pleasure.

Life itself is like a limited company. All actions in it should be governed by the limits applicable to each ofthem.Do not regard all your various possessions, houses, vehicles, wealth, etc, as permanent. There have beengreat emperors in the past who ruled over vast empires. When they passed away, what did they take withthem? Poserity does not care even to remember their names. What you cannot take with you does notreally belong to you. You are filled with fear, like the ticketless traveller who gets into the train. In thejourney of life, if you want to travel without fear you must have the ticket of a good conscience. If youadhere to right conduct you will have no need to fear any one.12. 9. 84These daya when one goes on a picnic, one takes a mirror, a comb and a handkerchief. Why do they takethese things? On the way, the wind may blow their hair out of place, and they may need a mirror and combto tidy it. When they get hot and tired, there may be some sweat on the face, so they take a handkerchief towipe it off. These three things help one to maintain one’s looks. In the same way, if you want to correctthe disturbed beauty of the mind, you have to take certain things. Whether our hair is dishevelled or not, isshown by the mirror. To find out whether our mind is disturbed or not, devotion acts as a mirror. Thismirror also must be clean. If the mirror is clean, it will be easy to see whether there is impurity in the mindor not. Whhen we recognise that the mind is disturbed, we have to correct; for this purpose, we need thecomb of wisdom. The cloth with which we wipe the dirt from our heart is detachment. This removes allthe dirt. In the journey of life, wherever we go, we need to have devotion, wisdom and detachment.23. 11. 84Life should rest on the four pillars of Sathya, Dharma, Shanthi and Prema. Whic hold it firm against theturbulant waves of joy and grief. Of these four, Prema is the crucial support. For, it is the very breath,the sole purpose of life. Love God and acquire the strength to meet the upsets of life. Love liquidates theblows of fate. Love blends and binds the parents with the child. Love santifies and glorifies the body.25. 12. 84In the pursuit of the good and godly life, one may encounter many difficulties and disturbances. Manydoubts and questions crop up. It is only when these difficulties are faced squarkly and the troubles areborne with patience and fortitude that we can understand the true nature of Reality. You should not allowyourselves to be overwhelmed in anyway by difficulties and sorrows, doubts and disappointments. Youmust have faith. Have confidence in yourself and strive to understand well the nature of God’s love. Tosecure that love is the sacred goal of human life.22. 3. 85Awareness is life. You must know everything that needs to be known, but make only the good things partof your life.17. 11. 85A life not dedicated to service is like a dark temple. It is the abode of evil spirits. Only the light of sevacan illumine the spiritual aspirant. Therefore embark upon service to your fellowmen without anyexpectation of reward. Do not watse your time in profitless talk.Life requires four elements: sweetness, strength, fragrance and the vital breath. The unity of these fourmakes up the human entity.A man without good conduct becomes a weak and pitiable creature. Again, good qualities like forbearanceand sacrifice lend fragrance to the life of man. Good thoughts and feelings should be the life-breath ofman. Without good qualities, righteous actions and the attitudes of forbearance and sacrifice, life is worthnothing.23. 11. 85

Of what avail is the length of years spend in living, if man is unaware of the meaning and purpose of life. Itis not enough if one passes off as a human person and parades oneself as a good specimen of the race. Hehas to be judged on the basis of the motives of his actions and the ideals he follows. He has to recognisehis Divine core and attempt to unfold it in thought, word and deed.9. 3. 86Man’s life is marked by the procession of days and nights. The rising of the Sun is the cast and its settingin the west are everyday experiences. But when it is noted that the earth is a globe revolving round itselfand going round the Sun, these phenomena have a different reality. Directions like east and west and northand south and the apparent motion of the sun are seen to be mistaken. Though the earth is revolving at aspeed of several hundred miles an hour, we are not aware of its motion at all. It is simultaneously movingin orbit round the sun at 66,000 miles an hour, carrying with it all things on earth. The earth seems firmand unmoving, while the sun and planets and stars appear to be going around the earth. Though thescientific reality is one thing, we are guided by the daily experience in which the reality is different.31. 7. 86A tree that has roots deep in the ground cannot be destroyed when its branches or leaves are cut off.Likewise, when evil qualities like hatred and envy has struck deep roots for the tree of life, they cannot begot rid off by striking at some branches. By suppressing bad thoughts intemittently, these evils cannot beeradicated. The mind has to be completely emptied of all bad thoughts to achieve real peace.22. 11. 86Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness.Paddy grains have to discard the husk in order to become consumable rice. Cotton has to be reformed, asyarn become wearable cloth. Even golden nuggets have to undergo the crucible and get rid of alloys. Mantoo must purify his instincts, impulses, pasions, emotions and desires so that he can progress in goodthoughts, deeds and words.23. 11. 86Dharma, Artha, Karma and Moksha - the four Purushasthas are the aims of life. It is only when Artha(acquisition of wealth) and Kama( the fulfilment of desires) are linked to Dharma (righteousness) thatMoksha (Liberation) can be easily achieved. But if Artha and Kama are divorced from Dharma, there canbe no ppeace or happiness. Moksha is freedom from delusion.7. 10. 90You must not be a bit of a blotting paper, absorbing all the passions and emotions, all the joys and griefsthat the actress Nature demonstrates on the stage of life. You must be a lotus unfolding its petals when thesun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water, which sustains it!14. 4. 95Man has progressed a great deal in the physical and scientific fields, but with regard to morality andspirituality man has declined considerably. The reason is the deep-rooted growth of selfishness over thecenturies. The entire human life is permeated with selfishness. This selfishness should be brought underrestraint. Only then human life can be meaningful.Man should look the world from the Divine point of view. Life is full of ups and downs. All these wretransient. Man should use what is temporary (the body) as the base for realising what is eternal, the Atma.These are inter-related.6. 5. 95Human life has four stages. It can be described as a four-storyed mansion. Any structure can be safe andsound only when the foundation is strong. Celibacy (Brahmachariya) is the foundation for the structure oflife. The first floor is the stage of Grihastha (householder leading a married life). The second floor isVaanaprastha (preparing to Sanyasa) and the third floor is Sanyasa (Renunciation).

There is no difference between one child and another at the time of birth. All are born out of the mother’swomb only. This is the first stage of life (Sudra). The second stage is getting the upadesa of Gayahtri atthe time of Upanayanam, when the boy becomes a Durja or twice born. He is then purified. The thirdstage is Vipra, when one has mastered the study of the Vedas. The fourth stage is Brahmana when heactually realises the Brahman through the knowledge of the Self. One becomes a Brahmana not by birthbut only when one realises the Supreme Brahman. One becomes a Brahmana by action and not by birth.If you go on concentrating on your family alone till death, what is it you derive finally? None of thesepeople will come with you on your final journey. It is the love of God that will come with you even afterdeath. Develop love and sanctify your life with that Prema principle.11. 7. 95Life is made tasty by good thoughts and good actions. All those who wish to pursue the spiritual path mustbegin with getting rid of bad thoughts and bad practices and start transforming their lives.18. 8. 95Every individual should manifest a divine ideal in his life. This ideal should absorb his entire life andactivities.Whatever you do to please God must be in harmony with the perfection of the Divine. Your words shouldbe absolute truth. Your actions should be totally God-oriented. All thoughts be divinised. It should berealised that God is the Indweller in all beings. Because man has failed to realise this truth he leads adouble life and is a prey to troubles and worries. Only by leading a godly life can man redeem himself.Man today is like an earthen pot with nectar. His body may be made of clay, but his spirit is eternal. TheDivine has to be experienced through the body. Hence, human birth should not be treated as somethingtrivial. Human life is worth living, it should be cherished as something precious.What is the goal of human life? It is to go back to the source from which we came. Our duty is to return toour primodial, original home.Our life is a three-storeyed mansion. The Brahamacharya (celibate) stage is the foundation of this mansion.After that, the stage of Grihastha (householder) is the first floor. then you have the Vanaprastha( retirementfrom the life of a householder) stage as the second floor. Finally, there is the stage of renunciant(Sanjaasa), constituting the third floor. Thus Brahmachariya is the foundation for the other three stages oflife. The safety and security of the other three floors depend on the strength of the foundation. Hence,Brahmacharaya is the basic foundation.1. 10. 95Life is like an ocean carrying waves of pleasure and pain. In his ordinary life man is driven by innumerabledesires to seek worldly pleasures of various kinds. This precious life is rendered meaningless andworthless by the pursuit of these mundane desires.Life is essentially transient. Hence while life lasts, one must earn the esteem and regard of one’sfellowmen. One should not waste one’s life. It must be filled with bliss. This is the true path foreveryone.14. 10. 95People today lead meaningless mechanical lives with no ideals to inspire them. The purpose of life is toexperience the Divine that is subtle and invisible like the roots that sustain a tree. Men today want fruitswithout considering the roots.Today people forget the basic truths and purpose the epheneral. Worldly life is inescapable. But it shouldbe lived with the ultimate goal in view. Human action and Divine aim’s should go together. To forget theDivine is to descend to the level of animal. A hero becomes a zero if he forgets God.

23. 10. 95Man should seek to realise the eternal Divine within him. That is the primary purpose of human life. Allother accomplishments are valueless.17. 11. 95Human life is based on the body (actions), the mind(thoughts) and the Atma (consciousness). The bodyhas to be kept in a sound.23. 11. 95Yuo must realise that life is like a two-winged bird. The two wings are Love and Sacrifice. With thesetwo you must aspire to reach the supreme goal.From today you have to take a new path. You must spend your lives in harmony, co-operation and mutualesteem. See the Divine in all things. That is the source of true and lasting bliss. It can be got onlythrough love.18. 12. 95Today people reagrd difficulties as enemies. Without difficulties you cannot obtain a comfort.17. 2. 96As long as one is involved in leading a worldly life one cannot escape from duality. One’s peace andsecurity have to be found in the context of pleasure and pain. One’s joy is linked with suffering. Pleasureis an interval between two pains. Life is a continuation of light and shadow. Without sorrow there can beno happiness. Only when you walk in the hot sun can you experience the pleasure of a shady place. Insuch a life, it is not possible to experience pleasure alone all the time.1966Learn the art of swimming across the sea of life, with its waves of success and failures. That is the realskill to acquire.LOVE1955The Lord is a mountain of Prema [Love]; any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannotexhaust His plenty. He is an Ocean of Mercy without a limiting shore.The Lord is Love, His form is Love,All beings are love. Love saves and serves.Through love alone can good arise.Love reveals the God in all.The love of the Lord is Purna, full, total. We must make all efforts to attain this supremely divine love. Atthe same time we have to do our duty in the world.2. 2. 58The moon is reflected in a pot, provided it has water; so too, the Lord can be clearly seen in your heart,provided you have the water of Prema (Love) in it. When the is not reflected in your heart, you cannot saythat there is no Lord; it only means that there is no prema in you.3. 3. 58Burn the lamp of love inside the niche of your heart and then the nocturnal birds of greed and envy will flyaway, unable to bear the light.Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as awhole, then to the nations at large, and finally embrace the whole world.

Practice and develop love and all hatreds and jealousies will disappear.Prema makes you humble; it makes you bend and bow when you see greatness and glory. An unbendingperson is infected with egoism of the worst type; remember man is the only animal that can recognise andrevere the great and the glorious. Use that capacity and derive the best advantage out of it24. 3. 58Keep up the daily tasks and sing away in joy to the tune of Prema [Love].When prema embraces humanity, we call it dhaya (compassion), the quality not of pity but of sympathywhich makes one happy when others are happy, and miserable when others are unhappy.6. 9. 58Cultivate prema (love), towards all. That will destroy envy, anger and hatred. God and desire cannot coexistin the same heart.Wear the red glasses and all things appear red. Wear the glasses of prema and all will appear loveable andgood.29. 9. 60Prema is filial piety when directed towards the parents, companionship when it flows towards friends, lovewhen it is felt towards the partner, respect when it moves one towards elders and affection when you aredrawn towards children.23. 11. 60Paramaathma reveals It’s Glory as Prema (Love) in man; Prema appears in various forms: attaching itself toriches or parents or children or one’s a life-mate or friends. All these are sparks of the same flame and theLove of Universal is its highest expression. This Prema cannot be cultivated by reading guide - books andmade- easies and learning the steps by role. It has to begin with a great yearning for the Light, anunbearable agony to escape from the Darkness and see Light, as in the prayer ‘Thamaso maa jyothirgamaya’. The yearning itself will draw down the Light.27. 2. 61Love is of three types: Swaartha or self-centred, which like a bulb, illumines just a small room; Anonya ormutual, which like the moonlight spreads wider but is not clearer; and Paraartha or other-centred, which likethe sunlight is all pervasive and clear. Cultivate the third type of love; that will save you. For all theservice that you do to others through that love is in fact service done to yourself. It is not the others thatyou help, it is yourself that is helped; remember.21. 10. 61When heart is bound to heart, heat of argument finds no place.Whoever loves and serves all, him, the Lord loves and honours.28. 2. 64Man is led into the wrong believe that the accumulation of material possessions will endow him with joyand calm. But Divine Love (Prema) alone can give that everlasting joy. Prema alone will remove angerand envy and hatred.9. 10. 64

Prema (divine love) is the motive power in Karma Yoga; it is the very breath of Bhakthi yoga. It isuniversal and infinite, in Jnana; it sees the Lord everywhere and in everything, when vairaagya has beeenachieved.10. 10. 64The Prema of Gopis towards Krishna was super physical, the love of the soul for the over-soul, of the riverfor the sea. Persons deep in this type of love see nothing else; they behave like mad persons, as the worldgoes. Their joy when they feel his presence is as supreme as their grief when they feel they are deprived ofit. That is why among the songs of the saints, you have Nindhaasthuthi also; that is to say, songs, whichblame Him for being cruel, partial, negligent etc.3. 3. 65If you have no spring of love in you, dig into your heart with external instruments like pujas, sthotra(worship and adoration), etc and it will start to flow.26. 3. 65Love is God, God is Love. Where there is Love, there God is certainly evident. Love more and morepeople, love them more and more intenselt; transform the love into service, transform the service intoworship; that is the highest saadhana.13. 7. 65Live with prema, in prema for prema. Then the Lord who is Premaswarupa (Divine Love personified) willgrant you all that you need in spite of your not asking for anything He knows; He is the Master who doesnot wait to hear the moan of the child to feed it. His prema is so vast and deep; He anticipates every needaand rushes with help you must have25. 10. 65Be always saturated with prema; do not use poisonous words against anyone, for, words wound more fatallythan even arrows. Speak soft and sweet; sympstise with suffering and loss and ignorance; try your best toapply the salve of soothing word and timely succour. Do not damage the faith of any one in virtue anddivinity. Encourage others to have that faith by demonstrating in your own life that virtue is its ownreward, that divinity is all-pervasive and all-powerful.19. 10. 66Every being needs prema (love), inhales and exxhales prema. For prema is the basic breath; every one isthe embodiment of prema. Love knows no fear and so, love needs no falsehood to support it. It is onlyfear that makes people warp the face of truth to make it pleasant for those whom they fear. Love also seeksno reward; love is its own reward. That is the sole gain, the joy of loving and being loved. When it isdirected to God, it is called Bhakthi.Love removes all egoism; the self is forgotten, it is superseded, it is transcended.23. 10. 66Love leads to mutual understanding and sympathy.Nov 66Man must know his high destiny and steadily walk the path of saadhana; he must pull down the obstructingwalls. He must develop the great and unifying quality of love and approach all with brotherliness. Thatgives man the supermost happiness and peace. For peace of mind, there is no better instrument thanUniversal Love.23. 11. 66Prema is enough to realise the Supreme. Prema is the absence of hate, absence of dislike and prejudice; italso means the positive virtues of sympathy and affection, so that you grieve wwhen others grieve and exultwhen they are happy.

1. 1. 67Have the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart; then, you cannot hate anyone, you cannot indulge inunhealthy rivalries, you will not find fault with anyone. Life becomes soft, sweet and smooth.24. 5. 67You have to proceed from the known to the unknown. Then the love expands in ever widening circles,until it covers all nature, until even plucking a leaf from a tree affects you so painful that you dare not injureit. The green vitality of the tree is a sign of the Divine Will, which sends its roots deep into the soil. Theroots keep the tree safe from storms, holding it fast against the violent try of the wind. So too, if the rootsof love in man go down into the spring of the Divine in him, no storm of suffering can shake him and crashhim into disbelief.July 67The Prema with which you are endowed must be directed towards God; then only can it expand, grow,deeper, fertilise all your actions, benefit all those around you. If it is confined to the world, it will besucked up sonn, by the sands of envy, greed and malice.31. 7. 67Yuo must cultivate love towards everyone, however distinct the character and capacity of each may be.Though the same blood flows through the entire body, the eye cannot smell, the ear cannot taste, the nosecannot see; do not over-emphasise the distinctions and quarrel. Emphasise the basic brotherhood and love.As sugar that has dissolved in the cup of water is invisible, but patent to the tongue in every drop, so too,the Divine is invisible but immanent; capable of being experienced, in every individual, whether he is at thebotom or top.6. 11. 67Try to offer people your Prema, they will respond with lasting gratitude. Give them clothes, houses - theyare apt to lose them. Give them education, they may or may not use it for their good. But, give themPrema; they will imbibe it gratefully and fill their hearts with it and be happy as never before.26. 2. 68Where there is love, there can be no fear, no anxiety, no doubt, no ashaathi (absence of peace). When youare afflicted with ashaanthi you can be sure that your love is restricted, your love has some ego mixed in it.The experience of the love (Prema) is the inner I, which is the reflection of the real I, the Aathma (soul).When the senses are out of action, that I will shine in its full glory.28. 3. 68Before pointing to the faults of others, examine yourselves and assure yoursleves that you are free fromfaults. That alone gives you the right; but the wonder is: you discover faults in others only when you havefaults in you. Once you rid yoursleves of faults, all are pure and good. Whatever you touch becomesgold; that is the Dive alchemy of Love, Divine Love, Universal Love, Love for Love’s own sake.4. 7. 68Foster love, live in love, spread love - that is the spiritual exercise which will yield the maximum benefit.Love is the light that guides the feet of man in the wilderness.7. 7. 68God is the source of all Love; Love God, Love the world as the vesture of God, no more, no less. ThroughLove, you can merge in the ocean of Love. Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; itsaves man from the torment of birth and death. Love binds all hearts in a soft silken symphony. seenthrough the eyes of Love, all being are beautiful, all deeds are dedicated, all thoughts are innocent. Theworld is one vast kin.

2. 10. 68Man’s native characteristic is prema; his nature is prema, his breath is prema. The joy of desire cloudsprema and distorts it. Like the dog which took its image in the canel as another dog and started to bark itoff, man too barks at his own image who are as much images of Brahma as he himself is. To separate theimage from oneself is the basis of conscience. Fix your attention on the identity, not the difference. Thatis the road to peace.Investigate the Truth as far as your intellect leads you; you will,come up against the principle of love.The coconut tree thrives on the sea cost; the tree of Brahma-thathwa grows best on the soil of prema. Theregion of the heart has to be transformed into a region of compassion.26. 7. 69What is a home? How is it different from a house? The home is filled with love, with the sacrifice that loveinvolves, the joy that love radiates, and the peace that love imparts. The brick and mortar structure whereparents and children spen their lives is not a home; children do not yearn for it, parents do not find peacetherein!29. 7. 69Saturate the breath - while you inhale and while you exhale - in Love,. Saturate each moment in Love.Love knows no fear. Love shuns falsehood. Fear drags man into falsehood, injustice and wrong. Lovedoes not crave for praise, that iss its strength. Only those who have no Love in them itch for reward andreputation. The reward for Love is Love itself.Love is no merchadise; do not bargain about its cost. Let it flow clear from the heart, as a stream of Truth,a river of wisdom. Let it not emanate from the head, nor from the tongue. Let it emerge, full and free,from the heart. This is the highest duty, the noblest Godliness.Start the day with Love. Live the day with Love. Fill the day with Love. Spend the day with Love. Endthe day with Love. This is the way to God. If you repeat ‘God’ ‘God’ but receive anger and lust, hate andenvy into your heart, you cannot rise into Divinity, you will only slide into Diabolism.Love is transformed into poison if hate contaminates it. Love some, but do not hate the rest, for that hatewill foul the love and make it mortal. Love comes automatically to the realised soul; but, the spiritualaspirant has to cultivate it by means of service and inquiry into the unity of the Aathman. Love must flownot from the tongue, or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.Love is vital. Love is Divine. To render an act fit to be offered to God and pure enough to win His Grace,it has to be a manifestation of Love. The brighter the manifestation the nearer you are to God. Prema isnot affected or modified by considerations of caste or creed, or religion; it cannot be tarnished by envy,malice or hate.Preserve Love from being poisoned by these evils; endeavour to cultivate hatred - less, distinction - freefeelings. The root of all religion, the substance of all scriptures, the rendezvous of all roads, the inspirationof all individuals is the Principle of Prema (Love). It is the firmest foundation for man’s mission of Life.It is the Light that ensures World Peace and World Prosperity.Fill every word of yours with Love, fill every act of yours with Love. The word that emerges from yourtongue shall not stab like the knife, nor wound like the arrow, nor hit like the hammer. It has to be afoundation of sweet nectar, a counsel of consoling Vedhaantic wisdom, a soft path of blossoms; it mustshower peace and joy.Love for Love’s sake; do not manifest it for the sake of material objects or for the fulfilment of worldlydesires. Desire besets anger, anger provokes sin, for under its impact, friends are seen as foes.

When you are eager to place offering before the Lord, instead of transitory materials, let your offering beLove. Love is the very Light of Love; it is the only comprehensive Code of Conduct.18. 10. 69God is Love, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Beauty. When you accept Love, you accept God. The tender plantof spirituality can grow only in the field of Love. It cannot thrive in the dehydrated loveless land of humanhearts.20. 10. 69Love everything as you love yourself; you cannot possibly love them more than that! For, a vessel cancontain only its full. You cannot overfill it; you love yourself best; that is to say, ‘God’, who is your realself!7. 11. 69I desire that the relationship between citizens be founded more amd more firmly, removing all traces ofmalice or envy or pride. Let the mind dwell more firmly on the universal Aathma, which is reflectedequally in every being - and, Love will automatically guide all activities along fruitful paths.22. 11. 69Through Love alone can the Embodiment of Love be gained.13. 1. 70There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey - Love, love for all being, as manifestation of the sameDivinity that is the very core of oneself. This faith alone can ensure the constant presence of God with you,and endow you with all the joy and courage you need to fulfil the pilgrimage to God.Fill the reservoir with water; then, when you turn the taps, the buckets will be full. Cultivate love anddevotion; then your activities will be saturated with compassion and charity; they will yield the goldenharvest of joy and peace. The water must be pure; the Love must be unselfish and universal. you canyourself judge whether your Love is narrow or broad, whether your Devotion is shallow or deep. Are youcontent with your achievements? Examine it yourself - pronounce the verdict on yourself, by your owndiscrimination.4. 3. 70When Love has filled the heart, it has really been transformed into Divinity, for, God is Love and Love isGod. It is this Love and the compassion that flowed from it that made the great saints of India and of othercountries, like Kabar Tukaaram, st Francis, Ramakrishna, immortal.6. 3. 70Love persuades you to consider the distress of the other, whenever you are overcome by it. You are drawnto those who have equal ground for grief. You become engrossed in the sorrow of others and so forgetyour own.If you love another person, you will not covet lordship over him; you will not covet his property; you willhave no envy when he prospers, no joy when he suffers. Love is the strongest antidote for greed. Thistherefore, is the fundamental spiritual discipline; give love and receive love.21. 5. 70Clleanse the heart, by listening to spiritual discourses, seeking the company and comradship of therighteous, the simple, the sincere, the seekers and by cultivating goodness of character and sweetness ofdisposition. Fill your hearts with the sweet fragrant waters of Prema (Love). Then, every act of yours,every word of yours will be sweet and fragrant. If the tank is filled with pollution, how can the world behelpful or the thought beneficient or the deed commendable?

18. 7. 70My teaching is prema, my message is prema, my activity is prema, my way of living is prema. There isnothing more precious that love, within human grasp.The spark of Love in you has to be cherished and fed so that it may reach God; then, every being will beGod, every act will be Divine; every reaction you got from the outside world will be charged with Premaand sweetened with that nectar.You Love the God in all beings and the God in all beings responds with Love. Love God, thoughtribulation may be your lot; love Him though you are refused and rebuked; for, it is only in the crucible oftravail that the metal is purified and cleared of blemish.Adoration of God has to be through one name and one form; but, that should not limit your loyalty to thatparticular province only.Love alone can alleviate anxiety and allay fear.Develop a sense of proportion, a due sense of values. Love the things of the world with the love that istheir due, and not more.19. 7. 70Do not calculate or weigh the reaction, result or reward. Love call; love responds. Love is God, live inlove.15. 8. 70Love will remove selfishness and expand your consciousness, through sympathy and compassion.4. 10. 70The snows on the mountains peaks softhe during day, as a result of the Sun; they harden during the night,since the Sun is absent. So too, your hard heart hardens Me; your soft hearts soften Me. Understand this:Each of you knows the love of a single mother only. But My affection, My Love towards every one of youis that of a thousand Mothers! Do no deny yourself that affection, the Love, dydemying Me your Love!29. 10. 70Expansion is Love, Expansion is the essence of Love. Love is god. Live in Love.Competition, the desire to defeat and overwhelm the other person. Whatever the means necessary for hisdownfall, the greed to earn wealth, fame,superiority, these have put out the lamp of love in the human hearttoday. Resolve of this Festival day (Deepava;i) to light it again. When the worship of God starts in theShrine room the first act of yours is ‘lighting a lamp’, isn’t it? without a lit lamp, no auspicious ceremony isinitiated. When the lamp of love is shining , God menifests! Keep it burning bright and pure, God persists!Allow all to light their lamp from it, God showers Grave!Nov. 70Love is God; Love is the means and end. That is why there are no atheists, for, there is no being withoutlove of some kind or other. And, love of any kind, of any measure, is but a spark of Divinity. Love knowsno fear, it promotes truth, it finds peace, it builds faith, it promotes concord.21. 11. 70Develop Love, demonstrate Love, draw Love from your surrounding - that is the way to deserve leadership.22. 11. 70The fulfilment of man’s life on earth consists in filling onself with love of God and transnuting that loveinto acts of service, service of man who is the embodiment of God. If man has no love in him and if hedoes not share it with all beings, he is but a burden to the earth.

25. 12. 70God can be realised only through love. Without love in the heart, God will not reside in the desert.Love is expansion and expansion is Divine Life. Sow Love; it blossoms as compassion and tolerance; ityields the fruit of Peace.23. 2. 71Expand the love latent in your hearts and translate it into service to man.Expansion is the key to happiness, and love is the unfailing key to expansion.Fill the heart with love and distribute that love to all. Love grows with every gift of love; the heart thatpours out love is ever full. God is there as love and you are only drawing on Him when you are sharinglove with others.Fill the heart with love; then the words coming out of the heart will be full of vitality and power.Fill your heart with Love, then the whole world appears to be full of Love.Fill your heart with the sweet fragrant waters of Love. Then, every act of yours, every word of yours willbe sweet and fragrant.Fill yourself with love and look at others with eyes of love. You would also get love for God and love ofGod.Grace of God can be seen through Love alone. Love should not be rationed on the basis of caste, creed oreconomic status or intellectual attainment of the recipient. It should flow full and free regardless ofconsequence for it is one's nature to love. Wherever there is a vacuum in any heart, Love flows into it andfills the emptiness. It does not wear the cloak of falsehood, flattery or fear. The tendrils of Love aspire tocling only to the garments of God. It seems that God resides in His infinite splendour in every heart; so itprobes silently into the innermost recesses of all personalities around it to discover the seat of God, so that itmay bloom therein. That is real devotion. Love yourself for the God that you embody. Love others forthe God enshrined in them and speaks and acts through them.5. 3. 73Love all beings. Love with no expectation of return; love for the sake of love; love because your verynature is Love; love because that is the form of worship you know and like. When others are happy, behappy like wise. When others are in misery, try to alleviate their lot to the best of your ability. PractiseLove through seva. By this means, you will realise unity and get rid of the ego that harms.17. 3. 73Love leads to expansion; hatred leads to contraction and death. This iis the basic teaching of the scripturesof Sanathana Dharma.In ancient times, the sages performed rigorous penance in the forests, living among wild animals. With noweapons in their hands, they relied on their spirit of love to protect them. They performed their penancewith love for all beings. Their love transformed even the wild animals which lived at peace with the sages.Love transformed even tigers into friendly beasts.A plant will grow only when it is watered regularly. When you have planted the seed of love, you canmake it grow only by watering it with love everyday. The tree of love will grow and yield the fruits oflove. Men today do not perform those acts which will promote love. When you wish to develop love forthe Lord, you must continually practice loving devotionto the Lord.30. 3. 73

Remember, when Prema (Divine selfless Love) is installed in the heart, jealousy, hatred and untruth willfind no place there, Live in Prema, live with Prema, and act with Prema, speak with Prema, think withPrema, and act with Prema. This is the best and the most fruitful Saadhana.4. 73Goodness, compassion, tolerance - through these three paths, one can see the Divinity in oneself and others.Softness of heart is condemned by people today as weakness, cowardice and want of intelligence. Theheart has to be hardened, they say, against pity and charity. But, that way lies war, destruction, downfall.Love alone confers lasting happiness and peacee. Sharing alone can reduce grief and multiply joy.When you separate yourself as an individual, envy, resentment, jealousy and pride start defiling you. Lovealone can weld you into kinship with all20. 2. 74Love brings people together, hatred drives them apart. You cannot be happy, when you cause misery toothers.1. 4. 74Fill the heart with love, then the words coming out of the heart will be full of vitality and power. There isno Shakthi (Power) more effective than Prema (love).10. 6. 74Love can transform man into a Divine Being; it helps him manifest the Divine which is his core. Love cantame even the most ferocious of beasts. It prompts man to fill even the world with joy and to partake of thejoy. It implants a deep distressing thirst for that exultation, the elevation of the spirit.Bhakthi reveals to you that God is in everyone; so, the Love that surges in your heart towards God mustflow towards all, for, all are embodiments of the self-same Divine.7. 74Unless you cleanse the mind with Love, the Full Moon of spirituaal wisdom cannot shine therein. Therecital of the Name, the observance of vows and vigils, of fasts and festivals, may scintillate on the innersky of the mind, as stars stud the sky; but, until the lamp of Love is lit, the darkness will not vanish.23. 7. 75Man must endeavour to escape from thhis delusion and reach the state of fully illumined wisdom. The bestspiritual discipline that can help him to do so is Love. Foster the tiny seed of Love that clings to ‘me’ and‘mine’, let it sprout into Love for the group around you, and grow into Love for all mankind, and spread outits branches over animals, birds and those that creep and crawl, and let the Love enfold all things and beingsin all the worlds. Proceed from less Love to more Love, narrow Love to expanded Love. That statement,‘From untruth to Truth’ is not correct. The progress is always from the lesser Truth to Truth which is God.14. 11. 75Love is the solvent for the hardest of hearts. Without love, free, full and selfless, no spiritual Saadhana cansuceed. Without it, bhajan is waste of breath, Sathsang (holy company) a waste of time and mediatation aself-deception. Bhajan, Sathsang and meditation done with a mind soaked in love, can confer ppeace, joyand wisdom.23. 11. 75My life is My Message and My Message is Love.Of what avail is to worship the Lord and to suppress men, His counterpart? Love for Godd must bemanifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as Service.1. 8. 76

Love is My highest Miracle. Love can make you gather the affection of all mankind. Love will nottolerate any selfish aim or approach. Love is God; live in Love. Then all is right, all can be well. Do notnarrow it down into an instrument of restricted love.1. 10. 76Prema (highest love) is the attachment to God that does not allow anything to interfere or diminish itsquality or depth.23. 11. 76The eye can but see, the tongue can but talk and the ear can but hear. Each has to accept its limitations andbe content. The Divine can be grasped only through love, faith and Saadhana (Spiritual Discipline),surcharged with Universal Love.16. 2. 77When prema (love) is tainted by selfishness, it cannot illumine at all. Self is lovelessness; Love isselflessness. Self gets and forgets; Love gives and forgives. Love can never entertain the idea of revenge,for it sees all others as one-self. When the tongue is hurt by the teeth, do you seek vengeance against theteeth? No, for they both belong to you and are integral parts of your body. So, too, when some otherperson insults you or inflicts pain, allow wisdom to have mastery over you. Discover the truth and do notrush to conclusions, always keeping love as your guide.30. 7. 78Have faith, have patience and do acts of love and servic. Love will be rewarded with Love a thousandfold.21. 9. 80To presume that either from wealth or from kith and kin you can derive mental peace is a great error. Suchpeace come only from God. In fact, there is no strength superior to Love; where Love is, there everythingis. So you must live in God, and live in Love; then everything shall be right. You must make others alsolive in Love.19. 11. 80Everyone must become the embodiment of love. Love can be expressed only as love, through love.Lovelessness is at the root of the anarchy that stalks the world today. Unchecked self-interest, misdirectedactivity, the wild antics of the ego, pompous living and envious intolerance have caused this monstroussituation, Realising this, you have to be vigilant. do not allow even a trace of ego, pomp, or cruelty topollute your actions. Peace and prosperity can dawn on the world only when you move in society withlove, that is free from the taint of selfishness.24. 11. 80We know that we have to see the Moon only through Moonlight. So, too, God who is love can be seen andrealised only through love. Love is God, Live in Love.8. 3. 81Prema is God. God is prema. To consider it as a method of speech, an attitude of mind or as physicalbehaviour is to sorely demean it. Prema has no trace of selfishness; it is not bound by motives.25. 12. 81Love binds one thing to another. Love attaches one thing to another. Without Love the Universe isnaught. The highest Love makes us aware of the Lord in every one. The Lord is equally present in all.Life is Love; Love is Life. Without God, deprived of God, nothing and nobody can exist. We live on andthrough the Divine Will. It is His Will that operates as Love, in each of us. It is He who prompts theprayer, ‘Let all the worlds be happy! For, He makes us aware that the God we adore, the God we love, theGod we live by, is in every other being as Love. Thus Love expands and encompasses all creation.

Love is the very nature of life, as burning is the nature of fire, or wetness of water, or sweetness of sugar.We tend a plant only when the leaves are green;. When they become dry and the plant becomes a life-lessstick, we stop loving it. Love lasts as long as life exists. The mother is loved as long as there is life in her;when life departs, we bury her without the least compunction. Love is bound with life. Infact, Love ifLife. The person with no love to share is as bad as dead. This is the reason why love expands in an everwidening circle.Love is the fruit of life. The fruit has three components. The skin, the juicy kernel and the seed. Toexperience the fruit, we have first to remove the skin. the skin represents egoism, the ‘I’ feeling, theexcluding, limiting, individualising principles. The seed represents ‘selfishness’. the ‘mine’ feeling, thepossessive, the greedy, desire full principle. This too has to be discarded. What remains is the sweetjuice, the rose, which the Upanishads describe as Divine, the Love Supreme.The loveless are enveloped in fear. Love instills courage and promotes adventure. It delights in daming.If you follow the Master, you can fase the devil, fight to the end and finish the games.Love must be manifested as Service. Service must take the form of food for the hungry, solace for theforlorn, consolation for the sick and the suffering. Jesus wore himself out in such seva.23. 1. 82It is only Love that binds one person to another and one thing to another. The entire world is filled withLove. Life devoid of Love can be described as lifeless.In love there are three levels. The first is the best and highest level. Men at this level have full faith andbelief that God, who is the embodiment of eternal bliss, is present in all beings without exception. Theywill have the feeling that Ishwara is present everywhere and in everything in the form of Love. They seenothing but love in every being. They see no difference between their ‘own’ people and others. Personfilled with such supreme love will experience bliss. Those at the 2nd level care only for theri own goodand the welfare of their own kith and kin, their comfort and happiness. They do not care about others,about their merits or their faults. These people can be termed as middle level persons. There are otherswho don’t feel happy if they aee others happy; in fact they grow jealous of other’s happiness. They willalways be looking for faults in others and criticizing them. They cannot tolerate other people being happy.Thereby they ruin all aspects of love in themselves. Just as a crow feels jealous when a cuckoo sings well,these people fell jealous at other’s attainments.In every tree of life, love is present in the form of sweet juice in its fruit. But this is covered by a skincalled desire. Henece we are not aware of the sweet juice in the fruit. Only those persons who remove theskin of desire and throw away the hard seeds of anger and jealousy, can enjoy the sweet juice of the fruit ofLove. When one throws away seeds of likes and dislikes and removes the skin of desire, he can enjoyDivine Love, which is sweetness personified.25. 5. 82Every nation depends on three sections of its people for its progress - the producers, the protectors and thepreceptors. All three are equally important and closely interdependent. This is the tripod on whichprosperity rests. Love is a seat placed on the three legg and the nation can be happy and peaceful if all thethree sections work together in mutual love for the nation.25. 12. 82Far more beneficial than honouring the great is the practice of loving them. Praise, glorification and eulogyraise them on to an unreachable pedestal. Love binds one heart to another. Gratitude for the inspirationand instruction received must bind the hearts in love.19. 2. 84

The path of Love is the path of Dharma. Love results in enthusiastic service. Who deserves Love most?Nothing on earth deserves pure Love more than God, and if one is aware of God in man, embodiments ofDivinity.Everyone has passed through nemberless lives in the past, lives spent in utter selfishness. So, egoisticimpulses enslave him very drastically even now, preventing unselfish Love from sprouting and spreading.God seeks in man Love and Law. Love has to be regulated by Law. Without Law, Love cannot expand.It will be narrow and crooked. They are the negative and the positive.2. 4. 84Man should realise the divine within. For this the path of love is the means.23. 11. 84The wise person does not hate any one; he does not belittle or blame or hurt any one. What is it thatprompts you to love another? The urge to love and be loved is inherent in everyone. So when you denylove or when you hate, you are hurting not only the person but the Universal Principle the Divine Natureitself.25. 12. 84Love is another name for Dharma. True love is priceless. It has no trace of selfishness in it. It does notchange. It is pure and unsullied. It always grows and never diminishes. It is spontaneous. The love ofGod is of such a nature, it is spontaneous, free from selfishness, unwavering and always full.Ordinary human love is motivated by selfish considerations. It is liable to chane owing to changes in timeand circumstances. For persons immersed in such love, it is difficult to comprehend or realise the greatnessof Divine Love.Love will not submit to the forces of envy or hatred however powerful they may be. Love will prevail overthem.6. 5. 85What is true prema (love)? Pure, unselfish love towards all living beings, considered as embodiments of theDivine, with no expectation of reward, is true Love.When one regards divinity as present in all beings, only then he can have true love. Whatever thevicisitudes one may face, whatever the personal sorrows and privations one may undergo, true love willremain unaffected. Today, when any difficulty arises or when some trouble crops up, love turns intohatred.True love is the sweet fruit that grows out of the fragrant flower of good deeds.recourse to the sword. It binds without laws.Love rules withoutLike the lotus which blooms when the sun rises, the heart of man blossoms when love enters it. Like theglow of the flame in a fire, like the rays of the sun, like waves in the ocean, divine love is the basic qualityof a true human being. It is only when one is filled with pure, unselfish love that he can be called a humanbeing.It should be understood that human birth is the progeny of Truth as father and Love as the mother. Even ifone’s natural parents are absent, one should not forget the real parents, Truth, Love. When Truth and Lovebeget wisdom as son, the true lineage of man is establishedTruth and Love has a daughter, who can be identified as Santhi (Peace). Hence wisdom should be thecharacteristics quality of men and peace and serenity should be the distinguishing quality of women.Yogis should be looked upon as friends and good qualities, should be considered as true kinsmen.

Love is God and God is Love.Love is everything. A person without love is a living corpse. Love is not the relationship between manand man, or between man and other objects. It is inherent in every being.The Divine is present in all beings. The Atma has no form. It is experienced as Love. If there is noLove, there is no Atma. Hence, love is our life-breath. Love is our soul. Love is our everything. Itshould be unchanging. Young people should cultivate unwavering love and a steady vision.13. 5. 85The process of education involves the process of self-control and self-denial. . No person is free to live ashis impulses prod him. Even the impulses are the products of unseen and unknown impacts of previousand the pressures, social, cultural and economic, of this life. The impulse for action and the nature ofaction are determined by various hidden factors. As a result, when one claims that he has achieved oraccomplised some thing, he is only revealing his pride and his ignorance. Man is so bound bycircumstances and conditions that he cannot act independently of society, of cultured triats and of the will ofthe Supreme.The world belongs to God. It has not been mortgaged to Man to be used as he likes. It has to be used foradvancing His glory land demonstrating His Love and Power. Man has been endowed with senses, mindand intellect for this very duty. He has therefore to keep them pure and efficient.22. 11. 85The cultivation of love is the greatest need today.11. 12. 85Real equality among men has to be achieved not by the equal distribution of material things but by thecultivation of love, which promotes a sense of the divinity that is inherent in all beings.A life without love is meaningless. The more you love, the more it grows. The love should bedistinguished from attachment either to person or things. Attachment is based on selfishness. Love isbased on selflessness. Love is the fruit which is born from the flower of your good deeds. Only when weengage ourselves in selfless service can we experience the essence of this pure love.19. 1. 86When a drop of water falls into the ocean it achieves immortality and infinitude. If you hold a drop ofwater in your palm, it evaporates in a few moments. But when you join it with the ocean, it becomesboundless and one with the vast ocean. Only through love can union with the Universe be realised. To adevotee who has achieved such a union with the Eternal, everything appears as Divine.The heart is the seat of love. That love must express itself, to begin with, in the home. From there it mustextend to one’s village or town, to one’s state, nation and ultimately to the whole world. Love must expandfrom the individual to the whole universe. We must regard Love as God.20. 1. 86Love is of two kinds; Natural love and Divine Love. Natural love is one which expects something inreturn. Divine love expresses itself in loving service without expectation of any return. Divine Lovealways gives to others and receives nothing. Natural love always expects something from others. Trueeducation must teach this divine love of heart to heart, mind to mind, and Atma to Atma.Love in speech is Truth. Love in action is Dharma, Righteousness. Love in thought is peace. Love isunderstanding is non-violence.7. 3. 86

A life without Love is really living death. Every thought, word and deed must emanate from Love. Lovemust bind the community as one; it must strengthen the feeling of brotherhood and satisfy the craving forexpansion. Love must reach out to all mankind and to God.8. 10. 86Love is flowing in an endless stream through humanity all the time. By turning this love towards worldlyobjects and fleeting pleasures man is missing the opportunity to make life purposeful and to secure enduringbliss. Man should direct this love towards God to attain the true goal of life. Love of the Divine is notdeveloped by secular education or scriptural studies. It springs from the heart.One who is filled with love of the Divine will not be attracted by anything else in the world. Nor will hesubmit to anything demeaning or unworthy.Love is selflessness. The devotee filled with love of the Lord welcomes what may appear as punishment,as something for his good. Even when the Lord appears to be angry, His compassion is eveident. Even inpunishment, God’s kindness will be seen. Hence, no one should cherish a grievance that he is beingsingled out for punishment. Even punishment is a means of leading one to God. The display of anger isfor safeguarding the devotee. The true devotee is one who recognises this truth and welcomes whateverhappens to him as intended for his good. Eschewing interest in worldly concerns, he should concentrate onmeans to realise the Divine.Love is God: live in Love. Love is the means of realising the bliss of the Self, which is centred inourselves. It need not be sought elsewhere. It can be found within one’s self when all thoughts arecontrolled and the mind is turned inwards. Dedicate all actions to the Lord. This is the highestknowledge.23. 11. 86To realise the Divine, Love is the easiest path. Just as you can see the moon only with the light of moon,God, who is the Embodiment of Love, can be reached through Love. Regards Love as your life-btreath.Love was first quality to engage in the creative process. All other qualities came after it. Therefore, fillyour hearts with love and base your life on it.87Let your love flow into the hearts of others. Stagnant water becomes foul, whereas flowing waters are cooland limpid.Love all, serve all.Love alone can bind one to God, because Love is His being. One who is the very embodiment of Love canbe realised only through Love and not by any other means.Love (Prema) is devotion (bhakthi); the faith generated by love is jnana. The actions done on the basis oflove aand faith are Karma. The combination of Jnana and Karma leads to upaasna (worship). Upaasana isthe combined outcome of Bhakthi, Jnana and Karma.See with the eyes of love. Hear with the ears of love. Work with the hands of love. Think of love. Feellove in every nerve.So long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart haslove, peace and devotion you feel bliss.Sow the seeds of love, after preparing the soil of your heart, removing the weeds. Let them grow, wateredby faith, and yield the blossoms of fortitude. Later, you are assured of the fruit, peace. This is your task,that is your duty, that has to be your vow.

Start the day with Love.Fill the day with Love.Spend the day with Love.End the day with Love.This is the way to God.The best way to love God is to love all.The great quality of love is that it is the royal road to unity. All the diversity and manifoldness that we seein the world have come from the One. The One is the basis for the many. Once we realise the unity thatunderlies the diversity, the problems arising out of differences can be resolved.Nov 87Where there is love of God, there will be no fear of sin.experience morality.When both of these are present, society will1988Man has to sow the seeds of love in his heart and harvest peace. He should share that peace with all.Man's foremost duty is to make the stream of Divine Love flow throughout the world12. 7. 88Love today is based on desire for a return benefit. It is filled with fear and anxiety. Thus love ismotivated. When love is based on the desire for transient and perishable objects, life will be futile. Lovemust be its own reward.Love is eternal. You are the embodiment of LoveYou are the embodiment of PeaceYou are the embodiment of TruthYou are the embodiment of God.It is only when this Supreme truth is realised and our life is based on it that our love and life can besanctified. Then love can make our life meaningful and enable us to comprehend the world.29. 7. 88The most important goal for man is to put into practice the doctrine of divine love.The one Paramathma is in everyone, in the form of Prema.The primary duty of man is to share with other children of God the infinite boundless love that God showerson him.The Principle of Love is the greatest unifying force which unites all spiritual practices, all creeds, all thegoals of life and all the scriptures. The foremost path for the spiritual aspirant is the path of completesurrender to the Lord for earning His love and grace. The devotee offers everything he has and does to theLord in the same manner in which a bride renounces all that she had before her marriage in going to thehome of her husband. God's love cannot be got without such renunciation by the devotee.The royal road to happiness and the removal of sorrow is right action. The essence of all religions, allteachings and spiritual paths is only one thing: Love. Develop that Divine Love.10. 88Only a heart filled with love is pure and holy.Only if there is water in the tank, you can get water in the tap. If you fill the tank of your heart with divinelove, you can have love towards everyone and receive love from everyone.

Only in a rosary made of transparent sphatika (crystal) beads can the thread be seen. In the same way, inthe hearts of all the persons the subtle thread of Divinity is present. But only in a heart filled with pure lovecan Divinity be perceived.Our love should envelop the entire world. That becomes the worship of the Lord.It is only love which can bring about harmony and reconciliation.everyone.Develop love and give that love to23. 11. 88Every being is filled with Truth and Love. There is no one without Love. The Love may find outlets indifferent ways, but it is essentially one. That Love is God. Do not go against that Love.Honour every human being. Show love towards every person. Love is not a crop that can be grown onland or a commodity that can be purchased in a shop. Whether one is a potentate or a commoner, onlywhen he gives up egoistic pride and is ready to make sacrifice will love blossom within him.25. 12. 88Love is the means of developing devotion and achieving liberation, apart from other things. Only the loveof God is real love. It is the royal road for man to realise the divinity in him and in everyone.Jan . 89Remember the Lord with love. Worship Him with love. Sanctify your life with love.The thoughts of a devotee filled with love are always directed towards God, whatever he may be doing orsaying. Such love has been described as Supreme Love (Parama Prema). God responds only to such love.There is nothing greater than love on earth. Anything can be accomplished through love. Therefore, makeevery effort to promote love.There is only one law guiding and guarding this world - the law of love.Those who seek the bliss of the Atma should not run after the joys of sense objects.Today love is disappearing even between mother and children, father and son, husband and wife andbetween friends. Narrow-minded attachments are divisive in their nature. These should give place to abroad feeling of love and regard for all on the basis that the same Divine is present in everyone.True love consists of serving the Lord, recognising the Lord is everyone and serving everyone in the sameway. He is the closest and dearest friend.We have to make an effort to go close to the Lord through love. Only then will our life become sanctified.When Love is installed in the heart, jealousy, hatred and untruth will find no place there.When Love illumines thought, Truth is revealed.When Love motivates action, it is transformed as Righteous Conduct.When Love saturates feeling, it becomes calm and serene and ensures Peace.When anger, envy, greed and hatred are cast away, Love dawns as understanding and Non-violence reignssupreme.Where there is confidence, there is Love.Where there is Faith there is Love.Where there is Love there is Peace.

Where there is Peace there is Truth.Where there is Truth there is Bliss.Where there is Bliss there is God.The primary duty of man is to share with other children of God the infinite boundless love that God showerson him.man has to sow the seeds of love in his heart and harvest peace. he should shareWhere there is love, there is happiness.Where there is love, there is no room for hatred. Where there is no hatred, there is love automatically.Where there is purity, there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.You are all caskets of Divine Love, share it and spread it. Express that Love in acts of service, words ofsympathy and thoughts of compassion.Jesus taught that God is love. Instead of recognising this basic truth, men are allowing hatred, envy andother evil qualities to pollute their love. Man is gifted with the quality of love not to express it for selfishpurposes but to direct it towards God. Jesus declared that there was nothing great about returning good forgood. They should do good even to those who harm them.21. 3. 89The highest type of love is based on the knowledge that the eternal and universal Self pervades everyoneand everywhere.The human birth is precious. Sanctify it by leading righteous lives. Do not fritter it away. Whateverspiritual discipline you may practise or not, cultivate love for all. Offer that love as a divine offering to all.Only through love can world unity be promoted. It is because of the absence of love that all kinds ofdifferences arise. Love is God. Live in Love. Make this the ruling principle of your life. Be considerateto everyone.24. 3. 89Cultivate love for the divine and share that love with all beings.Cultivate love, tolerance, respect for the right of others.Develop love for God. There is nothing more powerful than Divine love.Devotion consists in expressing love towards all. You cannot effect a change of heart by speeches. Theyoften lead to confusion and conflict. Better than speeches is the practice of love, with faith in the Divine.Follow the path of love and redeem your lives.3. 5. 89Love is the means through which faith is strengthened.28. 6. 89It is only through love that man can acquire peace.28. 6. 89Love is the energy that binds our relations.Love is the first step on the road that leads to Divine Grace. See God in everyone, even in persons whomyou regard as enemies.

Love is the fruit of life. The fruit has three components: the skin, the juicy kernel and the seed. The skinrepresents egoism, the `I' feeling, the excluding, limiting, individualising principle. The seed represents`selfishness', the `mine' feeling, the possessive, the greedy, desirefull principle. What remains is the sweetjuice, the love supreme. Everyone has the right to partake of this nectarine prema and to share it withothers.Love is the impelling force for both bondage and liberation. That love is a manifestation of the Divine.24. 8. 89More than all other forms of Prema, man's first effort should be to fix his Love on the Lord. Such Lovedirected towards God is Bhakthi; that is the fundamental test, the acquisition of Bhakthi.My hand stretches out for receiving only when a pure heart full of Prema is offered. On other occasions itgives, never takes.One who knows how to swim need have no fear of the depth of the water in which he is plunged. Likewise,if you have earned the love of God, you need have no fear regarding the difficulties you may have to face inthe world.Prema [Love] makes you humble; it makes you bend and bow when you see greatness and glory.The mind is the cause of all worries. Even the yearning for God is through the mind. Man is pursued byworries from birth to death, all through his life. There is only one means by which all worries can bebanished and that is love.9. 10. 89The man who is filled with love has great peace of mind, is pure at heart and is unruffled by any adversecircumstances, failures or losses. This fortitude is derived from love of the Lord, which endows him withself-confidence. Self-confidence generates an immense internal power. Everyone has to develop this selfconfidenceso that the bliss of the self may be experienced.Love is the most precious treasure to be sought after. Virtue is the wealth to be won.Love is the strongest antidote for greed. This is therefore the fundamental spiritual discipline. Give Loveand receive Love. See with the eye of Love, hear with the ears of Love, work with the hands of Love, thinkof Love, feel Love in every nerve. The God of Love will come to you on the wave of Love and fill yourhearts with Himself.Love is the supreme mark of humanness.Love leads to unity. Unity promotes purity. Purity leads to Divinity.Love leads to expansion, hatred leads to contraction and death.Love lives by giving and forgiving. Ego lives by getting and forgetting.Love of God is the sure means for achieving perennial, Divine bliss. The essence of the study of sastras,puranas and vedas is to develop love of God. If that love is not there, all these studies are worth nothing.Love (prema) is devotion (bhakthi); the faith generated by love is jnana. The actions done on the basis oflove and faith are karma. The combination of jnana and karma leads to upaasana (worship). Upaasana isthe combined outcome of bhakthi, jnana and karma.

Love should be considered as the very breath of life. The love that is manifest in all things equally, believethat the same Prema is Paramathma.Love should be free from feelings of expectation of any return or reward. Love which arises out of a desirefor something in return is not true love. Utterly selfless and motiveless love should be developed. This isthe bounden duty of man.You are all caskets of Divine love, share it and spread it. Express that love in acts of service, words ofsympathy and thoughts of compassion.Expansion is the key to happiness, and love is the unfailing key to expansionSow the seeds of love, after preparing the soil of your heart, removing the weeds. Let them grow, wateredby faith, and yield the blossoms of fortitude, later, you are assured of the fruit, Peace. This is your task,that is your duty, that has to be your vow.Let your love flow into the hearts of others, stagnant water becomes foul, whereas flowing waters are cooland limpid.Love binds every heart in a soft silken symphony. Seen through the eyes of love, all beings are beautiful,all deeds are dedicated, all thoughts are innocent.There is only one law guiding and guarding this world - the law of love.Love and compassion must not be limited to mankind only. They must enfold every living being.Love, should be considered as the very breath of life.The love that is manifest in all things equally, believe that the same Prema is Paramathma.24. 8. 89A heart filled with love of the Divine will enjoy peace and be totally free from fear.5. 10. 89Kindness has been regarded as the highest virtue. To please every being is to please God. One who islacking in love for fellow-beings will not secure God's love. Without love for God, one will not have fearof sin. In the absence of both of these, a man will have no social morality.20. 5. 90Love and compassion must not be limited to mankind only. They must enfold every living being.Love and service should be your very ideals in life. Work for the society. Render any service with love.See the unity in diversity, know that God exists well within the heart and not somewhere else. Also knowthat God is always watching your actions. Develop love and become ideal to this world.Love as THOUGHT is TRUTH.Love as ACTION is RIGHT CONDUCT.Love as UNDERSTANDING is PEACE.Love as FEELING is NON-VIOLENCE.Love binds every heart in a soft silken symphony. Seen through the eyes of love, all beings are beautiful,all deeds are dedicated, all thoughts are innocent.Love for all should spontaneously flow from your heart, and sweeten all your words.

Love in speech is Truth.Love in action is Righteousness.Love in thought is Peace.Love in understanding is Non-violence.Love is a great quality in man. But it should be shown not only towards other human beings, but alsotowards all living creatures. This is the mark of true culture.May 90Love is the only bond that can unite all and make us realise the one Reality behind all the seeming diversity.Love can be experienced only in a mind flowing with love and a heart filled with love.The essence of all spiritual disciplines is contained in love.The greater a man’s love for God, the greater the bliss which experiences. When love declines in man, hisjoy also declines equally. The lover of God sees God everywhere. Hence man’s heart must be filled withthe love of God.Love will not enter the heart of one who is filled selfishness and self-conceit. Therefore, man should forgethis petty self and concentrate his thoughts on God.In ancient times, the ages performed rigorous penance in the forests, living among wild animals. With noweapons in their hands, they relied on their spirit of love to protect them. They performed their penancewith love for all beings. Their love transformed even the wild animals which lived at peace with the sages.Love transformed even tigers into friendly beasts.A plant will grow only when it is watered regularly. When you have planted the seed of love, you canmake it grow only by watering it with love everyday. The tree of love will grow and yield the fruits oflove. Men today do not perform those acts which will promote love. When you wish to develop love forthe Lord, you must continually practice loving devotion to the Lord.23. 11. 90A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cowyielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.All the knowledge that is acquired, all the positions one may get are of no use if there is no love in the heart.The acquisition of good qualities is more essential than the pursuit of knowledge.Where there is purity, there love grows. When purity and love come together there is bliss.24. 11. 90Love is eternal.You are the embodiment of Love.You are the embodiment of Peace.You are the embodiment of Truth.You are the embodiment of God.It is only when this supreme truth is realised and our life is based on it that our love and life can besanctified. Then love can make our life meaningful and enable us to comprehend the world.Love is God. Live in Love.Love is Joy.Love is Power.

Love is Light.Love is God.Love is like the mariner's compass, which always points to the north. At any time, any place or in anycircumstance love points only towards God. Hence, everyone try to understand how the Love principleworks. Love can be compared only with Love.I require from each of you no other gift, no more valuable offering than your heart, as pure as when I gave ityou, full of the nectar of love I filled it with.It is love that confers peace on the heart. When one's heart is filled with peace, the whole atmosphere isfilled with peace.Only when a rosary made of transparent sphatika (crystal) beads can the thread be seen. In the same way,in the hearts of all the perssons the subtle thread of Divinity is present. But only in a heart filled with purelove can Divinity be perceived.30. 5. 91Love is not something that waxes and wanes. It is unchanging. It must be spread wider and wider till itbecomes all-embracing. Such love is Divine. Love is God. Live in Love.2. 9. 91The greater a man's love for God, the greater the bliss which he experiences. When love declines in man,his joy also declined equally. The lover of God sees God everywhere. Hence man’s heart must be filledwith the love of God.Love will not enter the heart of one who is filled with selfishness and self-conceit. Therefore, man shouldforget his petty self and concentrate his thoughts on God.The essence of all spiritual disciplines is contained in love.18. 10. 91Love is one without a second. When this love is directed towards the world, it is called attachment. andwhen directed towards God, it is called Prema.The greater one’s love for God, the greater the bliss which one experiences.Divine love is that which does not flinch in the face of difficulties and does not gloat over prosperity andremains equally serene in all circumstances.Only the Divine is present with you in you and around you before your birth and all through your life’sjourney.As long as one is involved in worldly life, the relationships of mother and son, husband and wife, brotherand sister, and the like have to be recognised as natural phenomenon. all these relationships have nopermanence. separation is inevitable sooner or later. But between you and God, here can be no separationat any time. even if you forget God, God will not forget you. Therefore you have to develop faith in Godand cultivate love.6. 5. 92One who has secured Divine love can accomplish anything. Nothing is beyond his reach. Hence, oneshould be worthy of God's grace. Without Divine grace, man is no more than an animal.28. 5. 92Students should understand the difference between worldly love and Divine love. Worldly love knowsonly how to receive and not to give. Divine love gives and forgiveness and does not receive. It does notexpect any return. In worldly love, there is no spirit of sacrifice.

30. 5. 92Love is the form of the Divine. Love alone can merge in love. When one is filled with Divine love he canexperience oneness with thre Divine. happiness arises from pure love which is also the source of Truth,Righteousness, Peace and Forbearance.The word love is used in common parlance in the context of the relations between mother and child,husband and wife, master and servant, the preceptor and the pupil. But this is not true love. It cannot betermed love (Prema). It is only attachment. Prema can be applied only to the total love towards theDivine.The love which men today show towards God is filled with selfishness. The love is for the purpose ofsecuring some desires. But love is not a commercial commodity to begot in exchange. It is offeredspontaneously.There are many ways of realising God. Among them are: the path of Peace; the path of Friendship; thepath of Affection; the path of Maternal love; the path of sweetness. In all these five paths, there is someelement of self interest. But in the path of pure love, there is no trace of self-interest. Hence, all otherpaths merge in the path of love. Love is therefore the royal road.To promote among men love between humanity and God, the Divine descends on earth from time to time.What for is the advent? To promote the Love Principle is His primary purpose.There should be no trace of selfishness in love. Unfortunately today men’s hearts have become barrenwithout love. Hence there is no compassion in them. Men today behave in a more cruel manner than wildanimals in the jungle. There is hatred between man and man. Maternal love has become rare and fraternalfeelings between brothers are absent.Love for the body ends with the death of the body. Love for the mind results in bondage because of theaberrations of the mind. Love for the intellect results in endless speculation and enquiry. Love for theAntahjaram (the inner instrument) promotes the ego feeling. It encourages dualism (separating man fromGod). Only the one who realises has oneness with the Atma can experience infinite bliss - the bliss that iseternal.21. 1. 93The entire humanity should be considered as one brotherhood on the bases of universal love. The only theobjective of human birth can be fulfilled. The feeling of oness is essential for enjoyong bliss based onreclination of divinity in everyone.7. 2. 93Whatever you do should be filled with love.Doctors! When you treat the patient with love, you will win the patient's love.3. 7. 93Fill your hearts with purity and love all and hate none. Then Divinity will manifest itself in you.21. 7. 93Share your goodness with those around you and experience the joy that results from such sharing.15. 8. 93Love can be promoted only by the grace of God's love.A man can get on without many things in life. But he cannot get on without love.

Love is at the root of all action. This love is Divine.Those who experience the bliss of Divine love will be filled with an inner joy, whatever the externaltroubles they encounter.24. 10. 93Love everyone and pray for everybody’s well-being23. 11. 93Fill your hearts with love. Then you can experience real bliss.Nourish love in your hearts. Love will drive away all bad thoughts. It will promote the spirit offorgiveness.25. 12. 93The world is Love and Love is the worldLove is life and life is love.Men today tend to forget the love-life relationship. Love today is mingled with self-interest. In the tree ofevery man's life there is the fruit of love. To enjoy this fruit, the rind that covers it has to be removed at theoutset. The seeds in the fruit have also to be removed. The sweet juice in the fruit can be enjoyed onlyafter the rind and the seeds have been removed. In the fruit of the tree of life, the rind is "Ahamkaara",egoism. The seed in that fruit are the selfish interests of man. Only when the ego and selfishness areeliminated, the sweet juice of love can be experienced.Compassion is the reflection of love. Jesus is the embodiment of compassion.The greatest quality in every man is love. When love is absent, evil qualities like hatred and jealousy reartheir heads. Make love the breath of your life.Only a man who loves living beings around him can love the invisible Divine. Love must start with lovefor beings that have form. It must be extended to all beings. This is the primary stage in spirituality.20. 4. 94Caste and creed may vary. But the love principle is one. In all beings, in all countries, in all individualslove animates every one. Today the reign of this love principle has to be established all over the world.God is the indweller in the heart. The heart is full of love. That love must be shared with others. It isonly when the love is shared that the old saying about equal mindedness in joy and sorrow, in gain and loss,will be realised.Love is the most important factor in life. Love is God. Live in love5. 6. 94All academic distinctions or even observance of spiritual practices are of little use if there is no love in theheart.Love and compassion are inherent in every person. Each has to share this love with others. Failure toshare one's love is gross ingratitude to society, to which one owes everything.One should give one's love freely to others and receive love in return. This is the deep significance ofhuman life.

22. 7. 94When there is love, there will be no hatred. Without hatred, there will be no threat to peace in society. Toensure peace, society has to promote Love. This means that the mind has to be filled with loving thoughts.People should fill their minds with the all-embracing Love Principle. To experience the fullness of Love,you have to fill your hearts completely with love. That will be the result of total devotion.30. 8. 94You must share with all the love in your hearts, not with humans alone, but with all beings in creation.Love, which is the gift of God, has to be shared with everyone in the world.9. 10. 94Direct your sacred love towards God. There is no need for any severe spiritual exercise. Love is God.Live in love. Get immersed in that love.25. 12. 94For all forms of bliss, love is the source. a heart without love is like a barren land.Regard love as your life-breath and as the sole purpose of your existence.Sow the seed of love in your hearts and it will grow in due course into a big tree. God is one. Do notentertain any differences of creed or caste. carry the message of unity to every home.14. 4. 95Develop love for God. That love will take you to God. Observe three maxims in life: Love of God, fearof sin and morality in society. Then, in all situations, God will stand by you.There is no power greater than love (Prema) in this world because it is selfless and pure. Though severalyogas are available for practice, each and every yoga contains an element of selfishness. But ‘Prema’ isfree from selfishness. It is only because of the absence of such selfless love that chaoes, conflicts andconfusion are prevalent in the world. One who is interested in the welfare of humanity should practice thispriciple of true love. The life of an individual bereft of love is a sheer waste.15. 4. 95People want to see God. How can they do it? Are they able to see themselves? they need a mirror to seethemselves. Nature is the mirror in which the image of God can be seen. A mirror needs a mercurycoating to be able to reflect an object. To see God in nature the mirros has to be coated with mercury oflove. Love (Prema) is vital for everything. Today, in the place of love we have hatred, aversion instead ofcompassion.1. 5. 95Thing of God. Love God. Realise that there is no truer friend than God. Merge your love in His love.6. 5. 95Real love is beyons the three categories of time, past, present and future.permanent changeless entity, alone is fit to be called Prema.Love towards God, theYou need not waste time in trying to study all the sacred texts, as they are innumerable and your life-span isvery short. All that is needed is to cultivate the ‘Premathathva’ (Love principle). There is no greaterpower than this in the world. It is the supreme among all virtues.If you go on concentrating on your family alone till death, what is it you derive finally? None of thesepeople will come with you on your final journey. It is the love of God that will come with you even afterdeath. Develop love and sanctify your love with that Prema principle.

In this world there is nothing greater than love (Prema). The more you love, the more blissful you become.Divinity is the embodiment of love. Love shines as the eternal truth in everyone’s heart. However, it willbe dormant in the haert of the selfish. Love (Prema) shines only in the heart of the person who is selfless.Love cannot co-exist with ego and pomp. Love is the royal path that can take you to the highest state of theDivine.When love is directed towards the ephemeral world it is ‘Anuraaja’ or attachment. Whenit is directedtowards God it is true love. Worldly experiences confer only temporary happiness. Love towards theParamaathma (the Supreme Self), who is eternal and changeless, will confer eternal bliss. Every individualshould know the difference between Prema and Anuraaga.(Devotion)Many people profess that they love God. But, in reality, not even one in a million loves God in the truesense of the term. They may love God for securing some selfish material benefits. This is not truedevotion at all.Truth issues from love. In this world there is nothing greater than love. The more you love, the moreblishful you become. Divinity is the embodiment of love. Love shines as the eternal truth in every one’sheart. However, it will be dormant in the heart of the Selfish. Love shines only in the heart of the personwho is selfless. Love cannot co-exist with ego and pomp. Love is the royal path that can take you to thehighest state of the Divine.When love is directed towards the ephemeral world it is ‘Anuraaga’ or attachment. When it is directedtowards God it is true love. Worldly experiences confer only temporary happiness. Love towardsParamaathma (the Supreme Self), who is eternal and changeless, will confer eternal bliss.There is no power greater than love (prema) in this world because it is selfless and pure. Though severalyogas are available for practice, each and every yoga contains an element of selfishness. But ‘Prema’ isfree from selfishness. It is only because of the absence of such selfless love that chaos, conflicts andconfusion are prevalent in the world. One who is interested in the welfare of humanity should practice thisprinciple of true love. The life of an individual bereft of love is a sheer waste.Sages spent their time in the forests amongst wild animals. They lived amicably side by side with them.The animals did not harm these sages. What is the reason? The sages had no weapon at all. They had thesole weapon of love. With this weapon they were able to tame the wild animals. But, in these days, whilecalling themselves human beings, men are behaving worse than animals. Whatever they think, say or do,selfishness is the basic motive. The result is they are not able to enjoy peace.20. 5. 95Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and itbecomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. Foreverything love is primary. Where there is love there is no plave for hatred.There is nothing greater than love. God is love. Live in Love. Develop Love. It has to emanate fromthe heart. It express itself as kindness and compassion. Today people behave without compassion.22. 10. 95Practise at least a fragment of what you have learne. Cultivate love for God. Love is God; Live in Love.23. 11. 95Like oil for a lamp, Love is essential for life. Without oil or love, darkness will prevail. Render lovingservice to all. Recognise that the Divine is within you and you have all the potency for great deeds.25. 12. 95

Love exists for love and nothing elese. It is spontaneous and imparts delight. Everything is permeated bylove. Love sees with the heart and not the eyes. It listens not through the ears but the tranquility of theheart. It speaks not with the tongue but out of compassion. Compassion, kindness and love are separatewords which mean the same thing.Love can emanate only from the heart and not any other source. Love is immortal, nectarine, blissful andinfinite. A heart filled with love is boundless. Just as rivers with different names and form merge in theocean and become one with it, love in many forms enters the ocean of the heart and gets indentified with it.Love can conquer anything. Selfless, pure, unalloyed love leads man to God. Selfish and contricted lovebinds one to the world. Unable to comprehend the pure and sacred love, man today is a prey to endlessworries because of his attachment to worldly objects.Man’s primary duty is to understand the truth about the Love Principle. Once he understands the nature oflove, he will not go astray. The various contexts in which the word love is used today have no relation tothe true meaning of love. The affection between a mother and child or between a husband and wife isincidental to a certain temporary relationship and is not real love at all. True love has neither a beginingnor an end. It exists in all the three categories of time - past, present and future. That alone is true lovewhich can fill man with enduring bliss.One’s thoughts, one’s words and looks should be filled with love. This is divine love. One who issaturated with this love can never be subject to suffering.Men today are affected by praise or blame. But one who is filled with divine love transcends praise orcensure. He is unaffected by criticism or flattery. He treats alike joy and sorrow, profit and loss, victoryand defeat.Selfless love will give no room for any evil. Unselfish love may meet with opposition from one’s kith andkin and from worldly persons. But one should not be deterred by such opposition. Love should becherished as one’s life breath.The more you serve God, the more the bliss you will experience. Hence, fill your life with love, grow inlove and end your life in love.Make love the basis for all your actions. The Gopikas prayed to Krishna to play on the flute and fill theirbarren hearts with love so that love may grow and ripen in their hearts. The love of God should be freefrom any desire for favours. God judges the devotee’s love by the intensity of the feeling and not by thenumber of ways in which worship is offered.