Meditate to fix the Urges

Creation has to be viewed as a cosmic stage. God is the director and dramatis parsonae in this play. He assigns all the rolls of the characters in the play. All creatures in the world are manisfestations of the Divine. The good and evil in the world are expressions of the Divine consciousness. Man should not be misled by these expressions. Behind all the various actions of the actors the Divine director is at work.

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.28, January 14, 1995

Man is blinded by the objective world and he believes that world to be real, meaningful, and worthy of pursuit. The cataract grows in the eye and robs it of its efficiency. The cataract is the enemy of the eye. Ignorance, the cataract of the inner eye, blinds the intellect and robs it of its efficiency. So, it cannot see the Divinity that is your real nature. It misleads you into the impression that you are a man (maanava), whereas you are really God (Maadhava)….

Fix it (the Absolute reality) in your inner consciousness. That is the path of liberation, which you must start treading and, today is as good a day as any, for deciding to do so. You have meditated too long on riches, status, salary, children, relatives, fame, and the standard of living. They are all of minor interest, momentary value, and dubious profit. Meditate and fix your urge on the nitya, the satya, the nirmala, and the nischala — the eternal, the real, the pure, and the immovable.

There are two birds sitting on one tree, the Upanishad says: the jeevaatma and the Paramaatma—the individual soul and the Supreme soul—on the tree of this body, this world. One bird eats the fruits of that tree, while the other simply looks on, as a witness. But, the wonder is, the two birds are really one, though they appear as two; they cannot be separated, since they are two aspects of the same entity. Steam in the air cannot be seen; it has no shape or form; but it is the same as ice, which is hard, heavy, and cold. Nirakara and sakara (without form and with form), are just two ways in which the One manifests Itself.

Sathya Sai Speaks, Radio Sai, January 1, 1964

Each second is new. It is a gift, a chance, an opportunity, a thing to be celebrated, to be used for your upliftment. That is to say, each second is a fresh chance given to you for training the mind, refining the intellect, purifying the emotions, strengthening the will, for getting confirmed in the conviction that you are the deathless atma (self, the Infinite consciousness).

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.28, January 14, 1995