Yearly Archive: 2008
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s reality is difficult to comprehend, and yet we really want to understand it. On June 19, 1974, He allowed us a glimpse into this reality. God is inscrutable. He
Divine Discourses
November 14, 2008
I was woken by the bright red bird fluttering in the emerald cage of jasmine branches and tapping urgently on my window-pane. Peeking through the partially open Venetian blinds, I could see my excited friend
Devotee Stories
November 1, 2008
Sri C. G. Sai Prakash is a member of the staff at the Sri Sathya Sai Digital Studio in Prasanthi Nilayam. He started at the Sri Sathya Sai Primary School and completed his education
Student Stories
November 1, 2008
On Christmas day, I left home on an evening stroll toward the newly constructed Sathyanarayanaswamy temple, on the outskirts of my village, with the December ‘Sanathana Sarathi’ and ‘Pradeepa’ [magazines] as my companions. The
Devotee Stories
November 1, 2008
What an enchanting, wonderful voice Sai Baba has! It is indeed the voice of God, one that speaks directly to the soul, inspires and is imbued with joy, peace, strength, purity, love, and power.
Devotee Stories
November 1, 2008
In 1985 on Christmas Day in Brindavan, Bhagavan Baba asked Mr. Al Drucker of the United States to speak to the people assembled there. Drucker narrated how he had asked Swami if He was
Swami's Teachings
November 1, 2008
Following is an extraordinary letter Bhagavan Baba wrote to a devotee wherein Swami enumerates the qualities one should cultivate to become His devotee. We should regard these words as our life breath. Moksha [liberation] is
Heart must understand heart; heart must be drawn to heart, if friendship must last. Friendship must bind two hearts and affect both of them beneficially, whatever may happen to loss or gain, pain or
Sri V. C. Kondappa in his Telugu book, Sree Sayeesuni Charitram, notes that Sri N. Kasturi has given in Sathyam Sivam Sundaram a few important details of the early life of the Baba of
Puttaparthi…Prasanthi Nilayam… Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba … I had heard about them and I had read about them. Yet I had not seen them and I never knew I could see them, so
Devotee Stories
October 1, 2008
(It was four years ago that I was given the directive: “You don’t even know your own religion. How can you know Me?” This led me to a study of Islam with a fresh
Amitava Ghose is the President of the Sathya Sai Baba Center of Cherry Hill, NJ. He had most of his education in India and is presently working in Salem, NJ. The following is a narration of
Devotee Stories
October 1, 2008
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