Yearly Archive: 2009

Swami’s Views on Meat

Visitor: How does one get devotion to God? Sai: Confidence is necessary. Food is the start. The body is made from food. Without health, it is very hard to do anything. The stomach is

Liberation in Contemporary Life

Liberation is just the awareness of truth, the falling off of the scales of delusion from the eye. It is not a special suburb of select souls; it is not a closed monopoly of

Love the Source of Love

Bhagavan Baba exhorts devotees to seek the true source of love—God Himself who is immanent in every being in this world. In this Shivaratri discourse from more than four decades back, Baba encourages everyone

Portal of Service

Dr. Savithri, M.B.B.S, an experienced gynecologist, has been serving the Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital in Whitefield, India, for almost three decades. She is currently Senior Resident Doctor at Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital,

A Spiritual Workshop

Dr. Kamala is a doctor at the General Hospital who has dedicated her whole life to serving the Lord by serving the patients at the hospital. She describes the Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital

Why Fear?

“Why fear, when I am here?” is an assurance that Baba often grants to those who hesitate to accept His word about the fulfillment of some wish of theirs. While at Shirdi, Baba put

The Laws of Action

Karma [action] is the action principle of the universe; every cause has its effect, every action has its reaction. The law of karma is a comprehensive law embracing all action in all the planes

Liberate from Narrowness

Who could have foreseen that these minute specks of life (amoebae) could hold out against the gigantic onslaught of molten lava and earth-shaking upheaval?  That speck of chaitanya, or life-consciousness, won through, nevertheless. Undeterred

Ask for Me

In the following discourse Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba says that we are not taking full advantage of His being amongst us. We ask Him for petty trivial worldly pleasures when all that we

Two Conversations

There were more people than usual at Brindavan today. The bhajans continued without intermission even after Baba had come amongst us and returned to His residence. The cold spell had modified, the sky was

I Asked Swami…

In my prayer: I asked Swami to let me see truth with His eyes, and to let me know truth with His mind. I begged Swami: to allow me to experience true love with

Unity is Divinity

At a Divine discourse on India’s Independence day this year, Baba drove home to us the importance of unity through a very simple and striking example. He asked how it was possible for England,