Jesus’s Life
In celebration of the Christian Lenten season, which culminates on Easter Day, Swami teaches us in the following passages the meaning of Jesus’s life and ultimate sacrifice of Himself.
The true significance of these three statements is: “To love God” is to be His messenger. “To be loved by God” is to be a son of God. The final state is to be one with God. As Jesus said: “I and my Father are one.” Thus all persons are messengers of God. This means that they should divinize themselves. When can men call themselves “Sons of God?” Recognize what pure actions are done by God, selflessly for the sake of all. There is no trace of self-interest in Him. Everything He does, says, or thinks is for the good of others. On the other side, everything men do, speak, or think is born out of selfishness. Men have become puppets in the hands of selfishness. Men can describe themselves as: “Sons of God” only when they are completely free from selfishness and become godly. To call yourself the “Son of God,” you have to manifest the qualities of the Father.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XXVII
“Spread The Message of Love,” p. 266
Jesus passed through the entire process and inspired all mankind by His example and teachings to be generous and kind, detached and discriminating, and to bring light and love to all. He attracted people by His miracles and transformed them into apostles and exemplary servants of man.
Jesus sacrificed His life and poured out His blood to instill love and compassion in the heart of man, so that he may be happy when others are happy and sad when others are sad.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XIII, “Jesus,” pp. 156-157
You must recognize that this life is a stage in the long pilgrimage and that we are now at a hotel, a temporary resting place, which has also a watchman. The mind is the watchman. So, do not feel permanently attached to the mind or the body. This ‘negative’ body has the ‘positive’ Divinity within it. When you become all-embracing, infinite love, the Divine will manifest in and through you. Try to be like Jesus.
Jesus was a person whose only joy was in spreading divine love, offering divine love, receiving divine love, and living on divine love. When He was on the cross and overcome with agony, an unseen voice said from heaven, “Death is the dress of life.” The body is the dress which the divine spirit puts on. Therefore, we should not weep when the body is worn out or falls or is injured. Death is an event, that is the very nature of the body. Men seek the cause for death but no one seeks the divine source of life. Be engaged during the brief span of life in glorifying God and in doing God’s work.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XIV
“The Way of Jesus,” pp. 256-257
