Divine Discourses Archive

The Ramayana is the very life‑blood of the Bharatiyas. Down to a few years ago, it was difficult to find throughout the length and breadth of India a village without a temple for the

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

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

In 1990 Bhagavan spoke about the teachers and the students of the various [Sathya Sai] Institutes and their relationship that brings out the very best. He also spoke about the glory of India and

In the following discourse on His birthday in 1990, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba spoke about the glory of Bharat and said, “I do not expect anything from you. Only, develop love within you.

Following is from Bhagavan’s discourse on December 12th, 1970, in Goa, after He took on the appendix inflammation that had come to a point of bursting in a devotee. Each one has come embodied

In His discourse in 1986, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba spoke about the nine forms of devotion that we can practice. He elaborated on them and said that bhakti (devotion to the Lord) is

I am in you and for you: you are for Me and in Me. Yet, I have an urge to tell you a little about Me and guide you. I am not won by

With your elephant’s trunk And single tusk, and benign looks, With the tingling of your anklets, And your prodigious belly, Looking like a dwarf, But capable of bestowing all knowledge, Oh Son of Parvati!

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

Among all the living beings, man is sacred. In this world, it is but natural that a person who is occupying an important or high position will have great responsibilities. Similarly, man occupies the

In the culture of India, all religions and faiths are integrated harmoniously for, it emphasizes Righteous life, Love, and Service, beyond which there is no higher sadhana [spiritual effort]. But people have grown deaf