Swami’s Teachings Archive

You have a duty so far as the other person is concerned and he has the responsibility to see that he deserves that duty which you feel bound to fulfill towards him. Duty must

You may say that progress is possible only through God’s Grace; but though My heart is soft as butter, it melts when there is some warmth in your prayer. Unless you make some disciplined

Swami teaches that devotion is one of the five Ds, along with duty, discipline, discrimination, and determination. But why? Why is devotion so important in our search for God and in our efforts to

“All men of all countries form one caste.  Keep this truth firmly in your heart.  You must recognize that the birth as a human being is a rare occurrence.  Consider time as valuable.  Heart

In one of his longer poems, Tennyson describes prayer as a moment when “the man in God and the God in man” meet. He must have dimly seen what Baba puts so clearly and

Sathya Sai Baba says, “The inner meaning of all spiritual discipline is to make man realize  his true nature.” What is this true nature? Baba says that we are God, not different from God.

What is the use of searching for quiet in the jungle of the world when it is available only in the silence of inner awareness? It is like losing something in your room and searching

Swami says that bhajan is a very important part of devotion. Devotees know how blissful He is during bhajans. The following article offers good advice for bhajan leaders and “repeaters” during the upcoming Akhanda

Your body is a boat that can take you across the sea of illusion, of false multiplicity. Keep it trim ’till this is achieved. Keep it light and bright. Don’t add to its weight

The consequences of action can be wiped out only through action, as a thorn can be removed only by means of another. Do good action to assuage the pain of bad action committed by

The pleasure that man gets from sense enjoyment is like the pleasure one gets while scratching eczema—it only makes the complaint worse. You cannot cure it by yielding to the temptation to scratch. The

No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you. You hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep in pain. The kite is pursued as long as it carries