Divine Discourses Archive

The way to happiness lies through a track of pain and suffering, clarifies Bhagavan Baba to His students. Pleasure is simply the interval between two pains. Sometimes certain feelings originate in our heart. Clouds

Today is the holy Yugadi (Telugu New Year) day. We bid farewell to the year gone by and welcome the New Year. We hope that during this year, called Siddharthi, our time and activity

The following are excerpts from Bhagavan Baba’s valedictory discourse that He gave to the National Symposium on Value Orientation in September 1987. “Human values cannot be learnt from lectures or text‑books. Those who seek

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Baba in His discourse on Shivaratri in 1971 explained the significance of the Lingam, the Lingodbhavam, and why Sita was separated from Rama during the exile. The scriptures composed by the

Sneha [affection] is the eighth of nine stages of bhakti (devotion) described in the Bhagavatam [scripture] and other texts. It is usually translated as ‘friendship’, a term that has been understandably vulgarized by application

This great Motherland of ours, which produced high-souled men           who spread its glory across the continents; This heroic land that won its freedom from occidental adventurers; This sacred land that achieved eminence in

Bhagavan Baba in His Christmas Day discourse at Poornachandra Auditorium said that you are all messengers of God. But you have no right to call yourselves messengers of God if your actions are bad,

In the following discourse during Dasara, Bhagavan Shri Sathya Sai Baba explains that we should not identify ourselves with the body but the atma as that confers bliss, peace, and light. Compassion toward all

The Upanishads say that the human is a spark of Divine Love, encased in five sheaths: the anna (gross, material, food component), the prana (vital air, breath), the mana (the mental, emotional, volitional), the

Speaking to the students on June 18th, 1992, Swami said that proper use must be made of the senses. Making use of this opportunity, one of the teachers asked Swami what the conquering of

Addressing the devotees assembled in Prasanthi Nilayam on the Onam festival, Bhagavan Baba encouraged everyone to install God in one’s heart, ridding themselves of egoism and pride. Tulsidas has said in his Ramacharitamanas [a Hindu

In 1969 on the occasion of Janamashtami day, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in His discourse said that the receptacle may be different, but the divine content is the same. The taste of the