The Cleansing Process

On the Telegu new-year day in 1981, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba blessed devotees gathered at Prasanthi Nilayam with a profound discourse on means to achieve peace. He emphasized the role of right-mindedness and

Life Is the Best Teacher

I remember the first time I came to Prasanthi Nilayam [Sai Baba’s ashram; literally, “abode of the highest peace”], in the summer of 1977. I expected to find various classes and seminars on hatha yoga,

Qualities of a Leader

Question: Swami! Kindly tell us how to achieve greatness in life? Bhagavan: Never allow this sort of idea to get into your head. You are mistaken if you think that you have achieved something

Precious Human Birth

Human birth is some sort of a special opportunity to get free from birth and death. Only on earth may an escape from birth and death take place. In no other plane or region

Human Life

Human birth is some sort of a special opportunity to get free from birth and death. Only on earth may an escape from birth and death take place. In no other plane or region

Deathless Though Dead

On the sacred occasion of Mahasivaratri at Prasanthi Nilayam, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in the ensuing discourse urges devotees to transcend body-consciousness and realize that we are spiritual beings that are deathless. He

“I Know, I Know Everything”

Sri Gangeya, an engineer by profession, was born and raised in Sri Lanka. He later migrated to the U.S. and is currently the devotion coordinator at the Flushing Sai Center, New York. He has

Small Teachings

Just as the rays of the sun absorb water vapor from the sea, gather them into clouds, and drop them as rain on earth so that they may flow as rivers back into the

The Punkhawala

It was the hour when man, bird, and beast were still wrapped in sleep. Everything had melted in the thick darkness. The train was speeding along like a spangled snake, along the sub-Himalayan jungle

Fun With Sai

Why the Form Bhagavan Baba is a unique incarnation of the supreme power whose purpose in taking human form is to make mankind realize the self within which is the eternal reality. Even while

His Healing Touch

Four years ago, my only son (now 10 years of age) had a severe scald, when he slipped into boiling sugar cane juice, his right forearm being badly affected. He could not bear the

Like a Child

Like a child I run to The With singing inner smile; I clap Thy mystery Like poet his dreamy thrill. Decked in simplicity, Clothed in dedication, I embrace Thy beauty With psychic intuition. I