When we love our parents who provide for us , should we not have more love for God who has given us our parents?
August 18, 2011
Spiritual practices-2
Devotion does not call for arduous spiritual practices or severe disciplines of any kind. There is no need to perform intense penances or Yajnas (religious sacrifices). The only easy and sure means for ordinary people to realize God, without regard to their caste, nationality, gender or any other qualification, is to have intense devotion and love for God. Where there is deep faith, there is intense love. Where there is love, there is Shraddha (earnestness). Through earnestness, the Jnana (higher knowledge) is gained. This knowledge enables one to practice spirituality. The Gopikas (cowherd maidens) exemplified this; they experienced the continuous presence of God within them and outside them. They showed that such sublime love was possible even for ordinary persons with little knowledge of the scriptures or spiritual disciplines and demonstrated the inextricable link between the Divine and the individual.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Die-hard hatha yogis - we should alter our approach. There is no need to stop hatha yoga but love for God is more important than anything else on the spiritual path.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Die-hard hatha yogis - we should alter our approach. There is no need to stop hatha yoga but love for God is more important than anything else on the spiritual path.
August 8, 2011
God and you
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011 As in Prashanti Nilayam
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
All of you must realize that the relationship between you and God is permanent, and is beyond the limitations of time and space. You should not waste your life thinking only of the physical relationship. The body is a passing thing. What you see externally is a burden. When you have made it a part of yourself it ceases to be a burden. It is like the food that a traveller carries on his shoulders for consumption on the way. As long as the food remains outside it is a burden. But when he has eaten it, he gets stronger and there is no burden on his shoulder. You must safeguard the Divinity you experienced and magnify it by contemplating on it internally. You should concentrate on the attainment of union with the Divine, which is permanent and beyond the limitations of time and space.
Baba
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
All of you must realize that the relationship between you and God is permanent, and is beyond the limitations of time and space. You should not waste your life thinking only of the physical relationship. The body is a passing thing. What you see externally is a burden. When you have made it a part of yourself it ceases to be a burden. It is like the food that a traveller carries on his shoulders for consumption on the way. As long as the food remains outside it is a burden. But when he has eaten it, he gets stronger and there is no burden on his shoulder. You must safeguard the Divinity you experienced and magnify it by contemplating on it internally. You should concentrate on the attainment of union with the Divine, which is permanent and beyond the limitations of time and space.
Baba
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