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A clever villager used to enter the village temple in the early hours of the day and sit with eyes closed in the hope that people will honor him as a great devotee. Since

Religion teaches self-discipline and promotes one’s well being; it enhances one’s spiritual power and makes one effulgent. If people live without knowing its inner secret, the community and its culture decline and suffer. Embodiments

Hislop: In America, when they hear of Sai, some people declare that he is the anti-Christ. Sai: Some individual ideas of some people. Goldstein has individual ideas. Hislop has individual ideas. I know what is not

It is the bounden duty of man in this life, as also in later lives, to know and experience the basic cause of the universe and all the love and sweetness it evokes in

In His Navratri discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba asked His devotees to sharpen their intellect and cleanse their consciousness to attain peace and security through satsang, japa, dhyana, and namasmarana, (holy company, chanting, meditation,

Dr. Jack Hawley, Management Consultant and former Visiting Faculty Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning “To transform the world there is no need for a new social system. What is essential is a

Pray thus: Let my thoughts, pure and holy, arise, O Lord, as incense to Thee. Let my Heart—Thy shrine—beat in rapture, O Lord, for Thee. Let my hands bestow radiant acts of service, Lord,

Kishore Y Madhamshettiwar was a student from 1987-1989 and from 1989-2003 he became a faculty member of Management and Commerce, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning at Prasanthi Nilayam Campus I was brought

Q. How then can this delusion disappear? A. Why, viveka [understanding/discrimination] and vijnana [consciousness] will make it disappear. Q. For the jivi reflected in the buddhi [intellect] and the koota­stha [combined action of seeing object, getting it close,

For maya-constituted beings, there are two maya gates: The appetite for sex and the appetite of the tongue. These two have to be conquered by every man. So long as they persist, they cause sorrow.

The stream of man’s life is marked by different stages. In each stage man falls a prey to vices like egoism, jealousy, and falsehood instead of cultivating truth, righteousness, and humility. A life that

 In the following discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai says that the taste of the Divine can be experienced in the atom or the cosmos, the friend as well as the foe, the virus and