I came to scoff And stayed to pray l tried to shake Him off But He wouldn’t go away. He works on me slowly Not against my will One day at a time Till

“Even if you offer a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or a drop of water to God in the true spirit of devotion and surrender the results will   be infinitely good.” What does God

Doctors agree that illness is caused through faulty food habits and foolish ways of spending leisure. But they do not seem to know that food is a word that connotes a wider variety of

How can the mother of the Avatar get over her maternal attachments and inherited prejudices and adjust herself to the ways and views of the Avatar? This was a serious problem for Bhagavan Baba’s

My first darshan [being in the company of a holy person] of Swami was in May 1990 at Whitefield during my first and only visit to the Divine presence. At home, in Melbourne, I

On February 12 this year, Swami granted an interview to final-year students from the women’s college, the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur, India. Below are edited excerpts from Swa1ni’s discourse given

Life is a song* My Beloved comes forth in the vesture of skin. Oh, my Beloved speaks: I shall wear the garment that you wear. I shall come close so that you may come

(On Tuesday, 2nd August 94, after the evening Bhajan in Brindavan, Swami surprised all the overseas devotees by inviting them for a Divine Discourse. Here are the excerpts constituting the first part of a

Once a month, the Sai Baba Center of Manhattan takes responsibility for the soup kitchen at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and feeds nearly 300 people. Our fearless

Recently, Swami gave me an opportunity to coordinate a project on EHV (Education in Human Values). We were trying to link students from my school in Washington Heights where I teach, with students from

There are three kinds of people   in the world. The first are like letters carved in a rock: they easily give way to anger and retain their angry thoughts for a long time. The

In addition to the knowledge derived from the sacred texts, one should gain wisdom through experience. Knowledge without personal experience is futile. Wisdom lodged within us will be of no avail if it is