Vibhishana

Question:  Swami, Vibhishana was a rakshasa [with demonic qualities]; yet he was a devotee of Rama. Kindly tell us about Vibhishana. Bhagavan: Vibhishana’s case is one of unique devotion to Rama. God is unconcerned

Oneness With God

As God is the embodiment of effulgence, you have to make your life effulgent to experience God. You have to realize that the light of your life has come from that param-jyoti (the supreme

What Is a New Year?

In the following discourse, delivered more than three decades ago, on the occasion of the Telegu New Year day, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba calls on His devotees to recognize the brotherhood of man

“Life Is an Airplane”

Manish Sarma (in XII standard), who spoke at one of the meetings last June in the Prasanthi Mandir, compared life to an airplane. He is the son of a pilot in the Indian Airlines

Greatest Australian Miracle

Early in 1976, my wife and I became acquainted with Pearl Harrison, a retired secretary of the medical faculty of a Sydney University. At first we thought this was just a chance meeting, but

Amazing Transformation and Divine Miracle

This is the story of Swami’s magnificent grace played out in the tiny village of Melakavatti, 10 kilometers from Ooty in Tamil Nadu, India. Three hundred families live in this picturesque valley surrounded by

Our Beloved

The full, cosmic, universal being descends into the human form, the Avatar, the scriptures declare. But we need to understand the word in the right perspective. What induces the Most High, the Universal Mind,

How the Lord Sees and Hears

“How often did you lose faith in God?   Or chide Him for not granting your desires? How often did you silently meditate On the supreme Lord and the supreme Goal of Life? How

Abhimanyu

Question: Swami, we hear that [in the epic Mahabharata] Arjuna was the only one capable of breaking through and emerging victorious from the Padmavyuha—the lotus-like military formation or maneuver—set up as a death trap.

Precious Time

Of all precious things in the world, time is the most precious. Think over how you are spending your precious time. Your primary duty as a human being is to offer your body, your

Atom of Majesty

Bhagavan Baba clarifies the symbolism behind His manifesting the lingam on the holy night of Shivaratri [on February 26 this year].  In the ensuing discourse, Baba emphasizes that His mission to establish righteousness on the earth

Love, Light, and Delight

Sunam Gyamtso, a former student of the Sathya Sai Institute, shares his thoughts and says that we are looking for miracles of materializations and forgetting the creator Himself who is the greatest miracle amongst