The Significance of Vinayaka Worship

With your elephant’s trunk And single tusk, and benign looks, With the tingling of your anklets, And your prodigious belly, Looking like a dwarf, But capable of bestowing all knowledge, Oh Son of Parvati!

The True Guide and Guardian

Jigar Rajesh Desai was a student (1996-2008) at the Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School, and then he did MTech (2014-2016) in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of

The Power of His Grace

In this audio interview from Sai SOUL 100, Brother Mohan Manikkam shares how Swami hooked him by showering his family with unconditional love. Brother Mohan is blessed with witnessing the materialization of vibhuti and

Ananda! O Ananda!

Ananda! O Ananda! With beauty comes new Ananda! With Ananda, new loveliness! Ananda! O Ananda! Premavahini poured Ananda; First it came from Baba’s hand! Dhyanavahini, He gave us next! And then to give our

My Experiences of the Omnipresence of Sri Sathya Sai

Mr. Victor Kanu, J.P., M.A. (Oxfordshire) is former High Commissioner of Sierra Leone, Africa, to Great Britain, with further accreditations to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Being an avowed spiritual seeker, he became the first

Good and Bad Actions

A Visitor: I see evil on all sides and am puzzled. Sai: Here is this banana. The skin is useless to us, so it is regarded as bad. But if there were no skin,

 Inquiry

‘We become what our thoughts are.’ These thoughts on the validity of the objective world and the value of the joys derivable therefrom, though they emanate from ignorance (a-jnana), do shape us from within.

At Every Level of Consciousness

It is the bounden duty of man in this life, as also in later lives, to know and experience the basic cause of the Universe and all the love and sweetness it evokes in

Swami Carried Me Through

In this audio interview from Sai SOUL 100, Sister Shailaja Rabindran shares about a series of experiences in which Swami’s love and grace carried her through a very difficult period in her life.  

Pioneers!

Honorable Sri Atal Behari Vajpayee, the late Prime Minister of India, spoke at the summer course on June 20th, 1978. He spoke about the importance of dharma. Let me make it clear, at the

The Golden Touch of His Feet

(“In sorrow after sorrow, it is His steps that press upon my heart, and it is the golden touch of His feet that makes my joy to shine” ~Tagore) I am the pilgrim and

Region 2 – Retreat Play 2024

I was asked to write a play for the SSE Groups 1-3 back in July of 2023 by Brother Chetan Bhatt, Region 2 SSE Coordinator, while on his flight to the West Coast. Brother