Yearly Archive: 2016

Question: Swami, Kaikeyi had sent Rama to the wilderness on the eve of his installation as the crown prince. What was Rama’s attitude to her? Generally, it would be one of hostility, wouldn’t it?

The word generally used for religion is mata; the word to indicate the mind is mati. Putting the two together it can be said that mata is primarily engaged or ought to be engaged

Bhagavan invariably refers to Shirdi Sai Baba as ‘my previous body’ when He speaks about Him. He often describes to His devotees how He ‘in His previous body’ dealt with people and situations, what

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba speaks here about the significance of Onam—a festival celebrated in Kerala—and its relevance to us all. Bhagavatha represents the essence of all the Shastras (spiritual sciences), the truth proclaimed by

Swami wrote this letter to a great Vedic scholar who had, in distress caused by perceived neglect, started deploring his fate and losing even the strength to pray to Baba, whom he adored. This

We hear many people lamenting the state of affairs and talking of the spread of injustice and falsehood, of cruelty and hatred in the world and in this country. This is like shouting for

Students! You are familiar with the game of football. There are six players on each side for this game, and the goal is at the end of each side. The six internal enemies—desire, anger,

The following article is a compilation of excerpts from Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s discourses given at Prasanthi Nilayam during March 1963. The meaning of the Krishna Avatar is beyond your understanding. Why, in

So we are back home after attending another Gurupoornima festival! Did I say `home’? No, we are back at school, the school of this mundane world. We went home, like the student who goes

Every day Krishna would go in the garden and say to all the plants, “I love you.” The plants were very happy and responded saying, “Krishna, we love You too.” One day Krishna rushed

In the following discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba encourages us to detach ourselves from the senses so that the atma [soul] can shine. The mind, thus withdrawn, can be loyal to the real

This is World Teacher’s Day, named after the first preceptor, the codifier of Vedic texts, the Poet who compiled the great epic Mahabharata, famous as the Fifth Veda, and of the other great text