Yearly Archive: 2020

The mind causes rebirth to beings The mind causes release to beings The mind confers victory to beings In the struggle to attain the four: Goodness, fullness, fruition, freedom, dharma, artha, kama, moksha. The

In the wide-open frontier That I Am a hint of vastness embraces me From a balcony in the heavens Sai Avatar surveys His luminous creation Winged worlds Spiraling galaxies Timeless superluminal light years orbit

Ravi Mariwala, a Bal Vikas student from then Bombay, spoke many times in front of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and thus developed the desire to be a student at His University. In 1982

Q. They speak of Avadhutas [mystics] also. Who are called so? What are their qualifications? A. Like the vanaprasthas [recluses] and the sanyasis [renunciants], they too have to be free from all attachment and

Enquire, enquire, enquire. Make a determined attempt. Don’t relax your spiritual efforts in any way. What we need to recognize is the mooladhaara [root basis of existence] principle. This principle is not visible through

“The true guru is not a human preceptor. It is the cosmos itself, prakriti, creation, the objective world around us. The universe and all its components are to be looked upon as one’s preceptors

Here is another poem by Kanaga Ranganthan, who recollects her response to the Sai call to His devotees, and how in just one darshan her life was changed forever as He came near her,

Man is a pilgrim toward Dharmakshetra (abode of righteousness), the pride of dharma, which is the abode also of shanti (peace]. But on the way he is led into the by-lanes and alleys of

In this Kaliyuga, the principle of prema is not in evidence. It is smothered in jealousy, conceit, hatred, fear, falsehood, and greed. That is why it is best referred to as the kalaha-yuga, the

One may have mastered the pedantic texts And perfected the art of expounding them; If his mind is not well filled with good qualities, His scholarship is like the crop grown on barren soil.

Q.  Even those, who proceed along the path of spiritual progress toward the goal of moksha have, it seems, big obstacles, Swami. A.  Yes, the past, the present, and the future obstacles. Q.  What

Only in the nation in which the goddesses of dharma (righteousness) and shanti (peace) are adored will genuine prosperity and happiness exist. Today many are indulging in actions opposed to dharmaand truth, and on