Yearly Archive: 2016

The root cause of all difficulties experienced by man is forgetting his spiritual reality and identifying himself with his body. The body is only the vesture of the indwelling spirit. By immersing himself in

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba spoke to Indian villagers in 1975 and expressed that He loved the villages because the virtues of detachment, uprightness, honesty, and sincerity still existed there while it had fast

Following is a discourse from Baba’s, “Lessons from the Immortal Indian Epics” given to the students in September 1992. He elaborates on the three crucial vices that humans have and how they are illustrated

The Bhagavad-Gita opens with the word dharma [right conduct]! In the Gita sage Yyasa gives the dialogue between the dispirited warrior, Arjuna and Lord Krishna, who is God incarnated to uphold dharma. The Bhagavad-Gita

Just as there are four stages in the life of everyone—boyhood, youth, middle age and old-age—there are four stages in each person’s acquisition of jnana (knowledge of Supreme Being), contemporaneous with these stages. Jnana is

In the following excerpt from Bhagavan Baba’s discourse on May 23, 1995 He spoke about the great child devotee Dhruva. Dhruva was a young lad of five years who did penance with single-minded devotion

Hislop: Of the many ‘roads’ to self-realization, what is the short cut? Sai: The short cut is this way: the name of God is the seed, love is the water by which the crop

Excerpts from the Divine Discourse delivered by Bhagawan on 30 May 1993. In this age of technology, in order to maintain the burdensome family life and to bring more prosperity, man struggles day and

“Ekam sat; viprah bahudha vadanti,” “The One alone exists; wise men speak of it as many‑facetted.” This is the harmonizing, unifying truth that India teaches through the ages. Another lesson that Indian culture embodies

Sathyanarayana Kumar Chavali, a student of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam Campus, from 1992-2000 writes the following article. After graduating from SSIHL he joined iNautix Technologies as a Project Manager

Most of us are aware of the Sri Sathya Sai Grama Seva [village services], where students of Bhagawan go out to villages during Dasara [festival of good destroying evil] distributing prasadam [blessed food] to

Being Bhagavan’s student, I feel that I must share the joy of living with Him. Ours is a bond of love. You can give it any dimension. Call it a father-son relationship, a mother-son