Yearly Archive: 2014

Four Steps

In this discourse delivered on a past birthday, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba urges us to strictly follow the ancient prescription laid down for different stages of life to attain mental peace and equanimity. The culture

Jesus—The Embodiment of Compassion

Jesus opened up the possibilities for a relationship with God with perspectives not known previously in His land or His culture. In the time of Jesus, Israel had a temple-based system of worship, and

Oh Sai! 

  I long to know Thee better, day by day, I want to draw much closer when I pray, To listen more intently for Thy voice, To let the things Thou choosest be my

Glimpses of Baba

The following is an excerpt from an article published in Sanathana Sarathi in 1975. I was in the United States in September and October of 1974, visiting Sathya Sai Centers. The California newspaper, named

How to Develop Good Samskaras

Man has taught the eye, the ear and the tongue, the luxury of constant novelty. Now he has to teach them the opposite tendencies. The mind has to be turned toward the good; the

For All Mankind

Sathya Sai Baba urges us to abide by the quintessential Vedic message—employ our body and mind to realize the pervasive Divinity in and around us. With just a few virtues but with scholarship vast  What

By the Grace of God

Because of a disturbing event, I tried time and time again to counter the action of a `superior.’ I tried often just to hand it over to Baba. I reasoned that it was His

Good and Bad

Sathya Sai’s discourse on a distant Deepawali day holds as good today: light the lamp within to destroy the negativities, and rejoice as God shines forth. The body is the temple where God dwells within,

Can Religion Survive?

The following article is from an essay by Ms. Rajeshwari Patel when she was a student at the Sathya Sai College at Anantapur. Presently she is a faculty member at the Anantapur campus of

Freedom & Prosperity

Gandhi said, ‘My India is the India of villages.’ The freedom that has been won, and the prosperity that is looked forward to can be ensured only when the villagers are free and prosperous.

The Sai Evolution

The history of civilization in most countries, with perhaps one exception, may be epitomized in one word, namely, ‘fear’. That fear has to do with losing one’s standard and security of life at a

Chitta

The tongue tastes, the eye sees, the ear hears, the skin feels, and the nose smells, each sense acts thus throughout life, is it not? The senses have to be withdrawn from the external