Hislop: Once one has tasted sugar, one never mistakes salt for sugar. If that bliss of which Swami speaks is our real nature, how is it that we confuse the unreal for the real?

In a normal baby, there exists real samachittha, for there is no desire (except the instinctive desire for food, drink, and maternal protection), to agitate it. The baby is the inheritor of immortality; so

On Shivaratri day in 1969, Bhagavan Shri Sathya Sai Baba explained the various aspects of the Shiva principle. He said that we were still in the listening state and had to get the stage

This world is a manifestation of the mind. The world as well as the senses are manipulated by the mind alone. The senses and the world take sustenance from the mind. The entire universe

Dr. T. Ravi Kumar came to Swami’s fold as a boy in the year 1969. In 1981 Swami appointed him as a faculty member in His Brindavan College. Later, when Bhagavan’s University came into

It’s an open door where others close, A smiling face that says He knows, A peacefulness that draws you near, An open heart and a listening ear. It’s a brilliant star from a long-lost

Usually, it is very difficult to learn new things, especially for older people. But anyone who tries to learn a new way of life sincerely at the lotus feet of Mother Sai can do

Q.    Swami, you say that one has to do some things, that one should not do certain other things. How are we to know which is which? What is the authority? A.  

In Bharatiya [Indian] culture, the four goals of human existence [purusharthas] are: dharma (righteousness), artha (earning wealth), kama (fulfilment of desires), and moksha (liberation). It may not be possible for all human beings to

The edifice of man’s life is erected on four walls: janma, karma, dharma, and Brahman (birth, actions, duties, and Supreme Reality). These four walls are interdependent and inextricably connected with each other. For what does birth

Long ago, about 2,000 years in the past, Lord Jesus Christ trod on the surface of the earth in the small region of Pales­tine. He only preached for 3 years. He spoke to the

“I take birth in different Yugas for protecting the righteous and destroying the unrighteous and for establishing righteousness” – Gita. In Treta Yuga on appeal from sages for protection from men with demonic qualities,