Devotee Essay Archive

Let Us Be Grateful
If God’s love for man is another way of describing His grace, what prevents us from responding to His love? The greatest impediment to responding to His love and making use of His grace,
Devotee Essay
January 1, 2024

Baba and the Moon
Often as a child I had heard about the “Man in the Moon” but was never able to discern any such person no matter how hard or how often I looked. Then one evening
Devotee Essay
January 1, 2024

God is Love, Live in Love
Once while I was sitting at His Lotus Feet, Swami asked my son who was also present in the Interview Room, “Whom do you love most?” Swami Himself, proceeded with the answer, “All the
Devotee Essay
November 1, 2023

Suffering in Life
Look around you and you will see everywhere the specter of suffering. Try to understand it, and, more often than not it will baffle you. How, you will argue, can God the infinitely merciful
Devotee Essay
July 1, 2023

The Ego Barrier
In the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna says that one of the qualifications for a devotee to earn His love is “nirmamo nirahankaarah ” (XI I‑13), without mine-ness and without egoism, free from the feeling
Devotee Essay
July 1, 2023

Sai and Sufi Tradition: An Islamic View
The Sufi tradition found its milestone of advaitic thought in the beliefs of Ibn al‑Arabi (1165‑1240) and the widespread acceptance of his theory of Wahdat‑al-Wujud [unity of being]. Al‑Arabi is nearer to Vedic and
Devotee Essay
June 1, 2023

Lead into Gold
In 1967 Howard Murphet, the author of the book Man of Miracles, spoke at a public meeting in Chennai [Madras in Southern India] in the presence of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Following is
Devotee Essay
June 1, 2023

Prasanthi Nilayam
Prasanthi Nilayam…. the Abode of Peace. The heart leaps at the very mention of the name. How we long to be there! We greet with joy those who are just returning from there, hoping
Devotee Essay
May 1, 2023

Noblest Deeds in the Eyes of Baba
What is in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name will smell as sweet. All names are His. It makes no difference by whatever name we may call Baba.
Devotee Essay
April 1, 2023

When Prof. Frank Baranowski saw Sri Sathya Sai’s Aura—July, 1978
Professor Frank Baranowski, a psychologist and regression therapist, specializes in research on auras, the energy patterns that surround all living beings, and works at the University of Arizona. He is an expert in bio-magnetic
Devotee Essay
April 1, 2023

Reminiscences with Sri Sathya Sai
Late Dr. K Hanumanthappa, M. Com, Ph.D., CCA (USA), FBIM (London), FWAIM (USA) served as the Vice Chancellor of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning from 1993 to 1996. He was former Vice Chancellor of
Devotee Essay
March 1, 2023

Baba and Bhagavad-Gita
Bhagavad-Gita [Song of the Gods] is a conversation between a doubting Arjuna and a confident Lord Krishna. It was narrated on a battlefield when, suddenly, the otherwise extraordinarily competent Arjuna was engulfed with an
Devotee Essay
March 1, 2023
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