Baba is the Breath of My Life

The world is a big theatre where the sky is the roof of lights Big and small. The Earth is carpeted green dotted with colors And all the lives in the sea, in the

Sri Sathya Sai: The Omniscient One

Denny George Melkey was a student from 2002-2009 at Swami’s University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning Someone once said, “The

Sadhana

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?

Be Unaffected

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

Mahashivaratri

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

The Highest Devotion

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

Chaksho Suryo Ajayata

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

Spiritualism

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

What I Have Learnt from Sri Sathya Sai

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

The Shastras and Sanyasa

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.  

The Four Important Qualities

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

Lessons in Karma and Dharma from the Mahabharata

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