Sathya Sai Sweeties With Birthday Blessings

1. The love that glows in every heart, know, that love is God. If you yearn to reach Him, love all.
2. The Truth that shines in everyone, know, that truth is God. If you seek to merge in God, practice Truth.
3. What is Love? It is the cream of the life that is lived in the holy light of full morality. If you aspire to be happy, experience Love in every act.
4. Love is the charm that can transform the stoniest nature into the softest sweetness.
5. The love that you bear to yourself is the basis for all forms of love; therefore, love your Self, your atma; without it, you cannot really love at all; without it, your heart is but a stone.
6. Taste the elixir of the Love that sweetens all the various form of prema; then only can you realize that in all beings there dwells the self-same atman, the atman that is One without a second.
7. Cultivate prema, if you wish to escape the agony of partitions and divisions and differences.
8. prema is not the common stuff so miscalled. It is the nectar of the lotus of the human heart. The heart that has no nectar is but a cell of darkness.
9. Have you the desire to have ananda, at all times? Then, speak in Love; act in Love, remember in Love. Be prema-full.
10. Do you crave for the fruit of sujnana? Then, seek it in the winding vine of Faith, lovely with the fragrant flower of bhakti. The bhakti flower alone can give the fruit, jnana.
11. Develop Humility before elders, dread of sin and steadfast faith in all things good.
12. The purpose and goal of life here is the realization of the atman. Do you yearn for it? Then, take up the sadhana: Renunciation, Service with no desire for the fruit thereof, and constant Remembrance of the Lord.
13. Whatever you feel is wrong when done by others, avoid doing them yourself.
14. However, you crave others should honor you, honor others likewise.
15. Those who consider world peace essential, must seek the welfare and happiness, the comfort and joy of all and pray to the Lord to bless all, with these; but they should, along with the prayer, comfort and help others, to the extent possible.
16. Four prides destroy the humanity of Man: the pride of Riches, the pride of Ancestry, the pride of Scholarship, and pride of being Young. The farther you are from these, the fuller you are with Love—the nearer you are to the Lord.
17. Four forms of Faith help Man to progress along the path toward Divinity: Faith in One’s scripture, faith in one’s Religion, faith in one’s Country, and faith in one’s Village.
18. The respect rendered to individuals and to Status is no respect at all. Status is short-lived; individuals rise and fall. The atman alone cannot be tarnished, changeless gem! Respect it; that is the real Self-respect.
19. Are you struggling to destroy your egoism? Then, do not run after positions of authority over others: that will only foster it. But, through His Grace, if you are in such a position, do your duty with considerations for the needs of others and respect the feelings of others. That is the crown of glory for that position.
20. Are you seeking Peace, Happiness, and Equanimity? Then, seek them in thoughts of God; nowhere else can you get the permanent brand. All three got from elsewhere are yours only for the moment: the next minute, you are plunged in suffering.
21. The greatest happiness is to be rid of lust, greed, envy, and malice.
22. Not causing harm to others, that is punya. Not doing disservice is the greatest service.
23. Why waste precious time in searching for the faults of others? Search for your own, discover at least one and correct it. That is the best use to which you can put the precious time.
24. Time is the very embodiment of God: so, frittering it away is as bad as ignoring God.
25. Are you planning to spend your days without malice or hatred? Then, do this: speak gently and with moderation.
26. Do not worry about others and their nature; try to acquire a good nature, yourself.
27. Far better is it to practice one virtue yourself, than repeating parrot wise a crore of suggestions to others.
28. Always be full of courage, enthusiasm and joy; this gives you strength¾physical, mental, and spiritual.
29. Do not yield or become sad when you are columnized or threatened; do not swell and get conceited when you are praised or honored. Both these delude you and plunge you into malice and hatred.
30. In the name of bhakti do not cause mental pain to others; do not disturb their peace of mind, or cause inconvenience to them.
31. Never disparage the Ishtadevata of another or his mode of worship, in the mistaken view that your God and your mode are higher and better. Never laugh at another’s faith; that is heinous sin.
32. God is immanent everywhere, in everything; all spots are holy, all moments are sacred, all acts are observed by Him, knowing this be vigilant; do not err anywhere, at any time.
33. Let your mind dwell on the name and Form you like most. Worship Him so. Do not change them to suit the whims of another or to please another.
34. When you are engaged in japam, dhyanam, and bhajan let your mind too experience the sweetness; do not merely exercise the body and the tongue. Genuine joy will be yours, only when your mind is fully immersed in them.
35. These thirty-four points should be well pondered over and put into practice, from today; this sadhana will lead you on to realization and you will experience Inexpressible Bliss.

~BABA
Source: Sanathana Sarathi, Nov. 1960