The three gunas [qualities] play a crucial role in creation, in the cosmos, and in human nature. When they are equally balanced, there is no agitation and no movement, though there may be resolution

Our family, my grandmother, mother, aunty, my brother, and younger sister, used to stay in Bangalore. Both my sister and I were then studying there. My grandmother and my mother came to know about

Hislop: What is the meaning of the word dharma [righteousness]? Sai: The word dharma does not mean duty. In duty there is no freedom; in reason there is freedom; and in religious obligation there

When the morning sun is above the horizon and you walk away from it toward the west, your shadow lengthens and struts before you. That shadow is maya [illusion], the primal illusion, and the

In the following excerpts from a discourse delivered to a mammoth audience during His birthday in 1987, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba emphasizes the quintessential spiritual tools available to humans on their journey to

Following is an extract from an address delivered by Al Drucker, from California, in the presence of Bhagavan, on 25th December 1980, at the Sathya Sai college hostel in Puttaparthi, India. Jesus of Nazareth

Shalini, the author of this article, is a child with sensory neural deafness in both her ears. She has been fitted with a cochlear implant in her left ear. Her parents have decided to

I first heard of Sathya Sai Baba in 1981 during a casual conversation with a friend of mine. From what I could gather, Sathya Sai Baba was a leading guru in South India who possessed

“Baba! Do You hear the bhajans [sacred hymns] we do at home every day?” “My dear fellow! Wherever My name is, My form is there also. I do listen to your bhajans every day.

Hislop: The crucifixion of Christ, the metal figure of Christ on the cross that Swami created; the metal, when strongly magnified, appears to be more or less covered with small bumps. What are they?

Peace has vanished Truth has become rare Arms have become a menace Selfishness is at the root Of all these calamities This is the word of Truth, the word of Sai. Sathya, dharma, ahimsa,

Venkat Kumar has spent many years at Swami’s College and at the Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. He is now a highly respected youth leader in Australia, but seems to have been quite