Yearly Archive: 2025

Step by Step

I am glad your resolution to walk the 400 miles from your village on the other side of the Western Ghats to this place in time for Shivaratri has been fulfilled, a day earlier

Being Near Sathya Sai Baba

From countries all over the world, people come to a small place in India called Prasanthi Nilayam, “the abode of peace,” to observe and be near the Avatar, Sathya Sai Baba, that again, like

Admonition

My dearest SELF! Bear all; and Do nothing! Hear all; and Say nothing! Give all; and Take nothing! Serve all; and Be nothing.                      

Tension is Good!

The other day, a friend of mine told me that he had requested Baba to relieve him of a position he held since it had added considerably to his mental tension. He said that

The Clang 

The family of Sethu Madhavan Nair, about eight miles away from the house where a few months back Naxalites committed the most gruesome killings, received a threatening letter from them, on 1‑3‑71. They felt

Develop One-Pointedness

From the tree of the mind comes the seed of impulses (vasanas). These impulses in turn make the mind. To free the mind from the influence of the impulses one has to get rid

Bend Before Prema and Sathya

The following are excerpts from Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s discourses during Shivaratri, March 1963 Do not grieve that the Lord is testing you and putting you to the ordeal of undergoing them. For, it

Love and Silence

Love is the most direct way to God: love of God and love of all beings. Every human being feels love in some form or in some way. Why then are so many caught

My Growth with God!

In this audio interview from Sai SOUL 100, Brother Krishna Mohan shares his journey with Swami starting with organizing slippers during his first visit to Puttaparthi to moments when Swami revealed His Divinity on

The Diadem Dark, Divine

The Crown of Glory, The matted monarch curl, The mighty multi-millioned strand, This ever-static eternal emblem of this God; This Sign of Him, who dances On the cold snow of congealed hearts; This Charm

How Do You Know He Is God?

In connection with a job search, I once met an elderly and well-educated person. I showed him a copy of a book that I wrote. He looked at the second page where it was

“Unforgettable Experience”

Dr. Baranowski is a scientist who has explored the recesses of the human body and mind, especially, the auras that form the bio‑magnetic field around the body and that reveal, when photographed and inter­preted,