Archive for the ‘Sadhana – The Inward Path’ Category
OneNess – The Mantra Of True Truth Aspirants…
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Ekoham Bahusyam - the most authentic Indian scriptural declaration about the process of creation indicates that in the ‘beginningless’ beginning The One chose to become many. The Big Bang theory of the western philosophy also points towards the same truth, of The One multiplying into many. The term ‘Oneness’ points towards The One without any second, call it Totality or The Absolute. Isn’t it the beginning of the ‘beginningless’ beginning? If one subtly observes the created world around, the answer becomes quite clear that, there is no second thing, except The One. To understand this man has to exercise a reverse engineering process, turning himself inward, instead of being focused on the illusory, hallucinatory world around. read more »
Posted in Divine Foot Prints, Indelible Impressions, Lest We Forget, Reflections, Sadhana - The Inward Path, Straight From The Heart
Meditate Upon One Name and One Form…
Saturday, July 11, 2015
During His visit to Mysore in 1958, Bhagawan had blessed Smt. Karunamba’s home with His Divine visit. During the occasion, while revealing His Truth as The Ultimate, Bhagawan enlightened the assembly of the importance of worshipping singe God-form… From the book ‘Sri Sathya Sai Anandadayi – Journey with Sai’ by Smt Karunamba Ramamurthy. read more »
Posted in Reliving Timeless Memories, Sadhana - The Inward Path, Sai Spiritual Showers, Sathya Sai Speaks
My Task Is This…
Monday, April 13, 2015
67 years ago, when Bhagawan was just over twenty years of age, He wrote a very revealing and inspiring reply to a devotee, who was perturbed by adverse talk by aimless tattered tongues, attempting to tarnish the Divine image. Pacifying the agitating mind Bhagawan responded, explaining His Task and His Divinity. The letter was dated 25th May 1947. read more »
Posted in Indelible Impressions, Lest We Forget, Love All Serve All, Reliving Timeless Memories, Sadhana - The Inward Path, Sai Spiritual Showers, Sathya Sai Speaks, Sathyam Sivam Sundaram
Watch Your Thoughts…
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Man, a rare species with the faculty to think and discriminate, often fails to look within, to view his inner personality, examining the dark side of his own thoughts. Does time spent in examining one’s own thoughts mean wasting precious life time? …or is it a worthwhile exercise?…Sri Shyam Juwale from Mumbai shares his thoughts based on invaluable tips received from Bhagawan… read more »
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Ananya Bhakti…
Monday, November 10, 2014
How many of us do get immersed in the melodic, enchanting music of Sai Krishna’s flute, completely intoxicated, forgetting our own selves??? Bhagawan narrates the essence of true, unparalleled devotion…Ananya Bhakthi… From Bhagawan’s Divine discourse at Abbotsbury, Chennai, on 19 Jan 1986. read more »
Posted in Indelible Impressions, Sadhana - The Inward Path, Sai Spiritual Showers, Sathya Sai Speaks, Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, Storytime With Baba, Straight From The Heart
How easy it is to seek Brahma-Jnana?
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
How highly one could…or how lightly one could treat the theory of Brahma-Jnana…? The best answer comes from a “live-example”, from the time of Shirdi Sai, wherein Bhagawan presented an episode, of a rich, naive man’s ambition to see Brahman. What was Shirdi Sai’s precepts to the ‘worldly one’ … a beautiful episode from Sai Satcharita. read more »
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Don’t Worry; I will give him realisation…
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Great Masters with complete awareness know what they do… and so with Avatars… it will be foolhardy for man to attempt to gauge their actions, rather man should submit to the will of Great Masters and Avatars… Years ago, Bhagawan Nithyananda of Ganeshpuri had direted one of His disciples to visit Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai… For Swami Shradhanand, the trip turned out to be an ‘enlightening’ one… enlightened to know that God Is One…and One Only!!! …narrates Dr DJ Gadhia. read more »
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Is A Path Needed?
Saturday, February 16, 2013
When man’s eternal quest, his unquenchable thirst to realise the Ultimate Truth meets with the omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient Eternal Divine, there is bound to be a profusion of Spiritual Showers. …And when it comes to Sathya Sai Speaks on specific questions that a common seeker raises, he is sure to get drenched in the Sai Spiritual Showers of encapsulated wisdom. —From the Notebook of a New Yorker as published in Sanathana Sarathi.
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Let God Do It…
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Bhagawan’s sayings on life, calling to play the game of life, meet the challenges in life mainly focus on one final step, Total Surrender to God. For the mortals Surrender is too big a term, theoretically okay to understand, but practically hard to practise. Let’s read on an interesting anecdote from a Bal Vikas Guru of Mumbai, Ms. Rama Sampath, narrating how Bhagawan taught her the lesson of Complete Surrender… read more »
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Lessons From Sabari’s Sadhana…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Sabari, the aboriginal character in the epic Ramayana is a great celebrity in the world of devotees as she epitomised highest sadhana with her pure unsullied love for Her Beloved Lord Sri Ramachandra. An aboriginal woman she was, Sabari grew curious after she heard of Lord Rama and His proposed visit to Sage Matanga’s hermitage, during Rama’s sojourn in the forest. Ever-since she remained God-intoxicated thinking of Rama alone, desiring for His darshan. Narrating this beautiful story, Bhagawan urges His devotees to take a cue from the illustrious life of this devotee of His Treta Avatar and attain the Ultimate. read more »
Posted in Lessons From The Epics, Sadhana - The Inward Path, Sathya Sai Speaks, Storytime With Baba
