Yearly Archive: 2013

Man need not undertake any special sadhanas (spiritual practices) to visualize the all-pervading truth. We call God by different names like Brahma, Vishnu, and Maheshwara. These are the names given by man to God

In the following discourse given on Gurupoornima day, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba tells us how the guru urges man to follow the pursued inquiry of “who am I,” which leads him to the recognize

The author, a longtime devotee of His grace Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, lives in Pacific Palisades, California. He is preparing [in 1965] an American-English edition of the Biography of Sai Baba as written

Free will implies a ‘willing’ in freedom, the will arising from the essence of one’s self and therefore being free from coercion of any type. Otherwise, we could not say it is ‘free’ will.

Many of us who have approached Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba are distressed; some are seekers of enjoyment; a few are seekers of knowledge, and a microscopic few are men of wisdom. Men approach

Do you remember when you chose? The time when you chose this life The day you chose these lessons The moment you chose your parents The second you chose to be You Why do

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, in a Janmashtami day discourse, charts the way to imprint God in our hearts—live in God, with God, and by means of God in all places and at all times as

For maya-constituted beings there are two maya gates: the appetite for sex and the appetite of the tongue. These two have to be conquered by every man. So long as they persist, they cause

In this discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, asks us to recite the Gayatri Mantra at least three times a day to get the full benefit. He also explains the meaning of the whole

Often as a child I had heard about the “Man in the Moon,” but was never able to discern any such person no matter how hard or how often I looked. Then one evening

It was during the Dasara festival that Baba kept sending wave upon wave of bliss to me. It came at all times, until one knew that only He could be creating such moments filled

For the past four years many people have urged me to write an account of the hijacking my husband and I experienced on our way home from a visit to Baba in March of