Yearly Archive: 2017

Uprooting of Impulses

Of all the workshops of the world, the workshop of the body is the most wonderful, because it is the tabernacle of the Lord. In such a factory, the impulses are sublimated into vows,

Which is the Real? … This or That?

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in this discourse speaks about the reality of man that is Brahmam, that resides in one and all whether living or non-living. The beacon of the spirit is the

Toward a Universal Religion

Almost every living religion today claims that it is a world religion. In so far as the term `world religion’ connotes the wide geographical extent of its spread, it is perhaps a justifiable claim.

The Sai Religion

In this discourse of October 1976, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba talks about the unity of all the religions and says that the Sai religion is that religion that feeds and fosters all religions

Stages of Sadhana

Hislop: Once he has tasted sugar, one never mistakes salt for sugar. If that bliss of which Swami speaks is our real nature, how is it that we confuse the unreal for the real?

The Discovery of Truth—that is the unique mission of Man

Man is a mixture of maya and Madhava; the maya (illusion) throws a mist that hides the Madhava (God). But through the action of the healthy impulses inherited from acts performed while in previous bodies or through the cleansing done by

The Fingers Five

Bhagavan Baba, in His valedictory address to the Fifth All India Seva Dal Conference, made a call to all units of the Sathya Sai Seva Samiti (organization) to work as a single entity like

The Pole Star

The pure heart shines with a faultless brilliance. Sweet love grants unblemished joy. Goodness is the most efficacious specific for the illness that lays humanity low. Goodness is even the reservoir of immortality. Attach

Unfortunate Children

 In the following discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is speaking to inmates of a remand home in Hyderabad about how they should conduct their lives. This is a good lesson for all of

The Birth of our Beloved

Before Kali Yuga started, sweet Lord Krishna oft proclaimed “To this Earth again will I be born, when it is steeped in shame.” And thus it was so written, on the Gita’s golden page “For

He Corrected My Sanskrit Verses

The following article is by G. R. Praveena, a student in the Department of Biosciences at the Sri Sathya Sai institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, from1984-1989. Currently he is a faculty member

The Fourteen Lokas

Q: I have heard it said that the lokas are all in the body of man! Some experienced persons and some men learned in the Shastras (scriptures) have said so; is that true? What are