What is the surest way to have a direct vision of the Divine?
Embodiments of Divine Love! Adhere sincerely to your faith and traditions. Wherever you may be, do not give room for religious or any kind of differences.
When we examine the root cause for differences or conflicts, you will find that the real reason is selfish minds, wearing the garb of religion or any other cause, and inciting conflicts amongst the people.
If you desire to secure genuine peace in the world, you must hold morality as superior to your community.
Cherish good feelings as more important than religious beliefs. Mutual regard, equal mindedness and forbearance are the basic qualities necessary for every human being.
Only the person with these three qualities can be regarded as a true man. Hence all of you must cultivate these three sacred qualities assiduously.
Using these qualities, give up all kinds of differences. Then love will develop in you. When love grows, you will have a direct vision of the Divine.
- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1990.
A peaceful mind is the abode of love.
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Life 23 (Jul 14 - Jan 15)
Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Fri Dec 26, 2014 7:31 am
It's all about "how much you made when you were right" & "how little you lost when you were wrong"
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:03 am
What is the potency of "Listening to the Lord’s glory", one of the nine types of devotion?
Listening to expositions by a speaker who has had the thrill of genuine experience is a blessing.
The speaker’s face will blossom with joy, their eyes will shed tears of exhilaration at the very contemplation of the Lord’s glory. Listeners will easily catch that inspiration and experience the joy themselves as tears stream down their eyes.
When an infant smiles, everyone around the infant also smiles in unison. So too the words of those who are saturated with devotion to the Divine will saturate the hearts of the listeners too.
Through that process of listening, a dirt-laden heart will be transformed into a clean and illumined heart which shines with genuine light and love.
To the foul odours of sense-pursuits, keenness to listen to the glories of the Divine is a valuable disinfectant, besides being in itself so full of sweet fragrance. Listening will effectively cleanse your heart.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'
Constant reflection on the glory of the Divine helps to transmute the body, mind and spirit.
Source: radiosai.org
Listening to expositions by a speaker who has had the thrill of genuine experience is a blessing.
The speaker’s face will blossom with joy, their eyes will shed tears of exhilaration at the very contemplation of the Lord’s glory. Listeners will easily catch that inspiration and experience the joy themselves as tears stream down their eyes.
When an infant smiles, everyone around the infant also smiles in unison. So too the words of those who are saturated with devotion to the Divine will saturate the hearts of the listeners too.
Through that process of listening, a dirt-laden heart will be transformed into a clean and illumined heart which shines with genuine light and love.
To the foul odours of sense-pursuits, keenness to listen to the glories of the Divine is a valuable disinfectant, besides being in itself so full of sweet fragrance. Listening will effectively cleanse your heart.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'
Constant reflection on the glory of the Divine helps to transmute the body, mind and spirit.
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Sun Dec 28, 2014 8:59 am
What is the benefit of accomplishing or maintaining a pure and loving heart?
A cleansed and pure heart is the most appropriate altar or tabernacle for the Lord.
In that fragrant bower, the Lord will establish Himself. When the Lord establishes Himself, at that very moment, another incident too will happen.
The group of six vices that had infested the place will quit instantly, without any farewell or fanfare. When these vices quit, the wicked retinue of evil tendencies and vulgar attitudes which live on them will break camp and disappear without leaving even their addresses!
Then one will shine in one's native splendour of Truth and Love. That person will endeavour without hindrance to realize the Self, and finally succeed in merging with the Universal and Eternal.
Liberated from the tangle of ignorance or maya, the mind will fade away. The long-hidden secret will be revealed.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
When your heart is filled with good thoughts and feelings, all that comes out of the senses - your speech, your vision, your action - will all be pure
Source: radiosai.org
A cleansed and pure heart is the most appropriate altar or tabernacle for the Lord.
In that fragrant bower, the Lord will establish Himself. When the Lord establishes Himself, at that very moment, another incident too will happen.
The group of six vices that had infested the place will quit instantly, without any farewell or fanfare. When these vices quit, the wicked retinue of evil tendencies and vulgar attitudes which live on them will break camp and disappear without leaving even their addresses!
Then one will shine in one's native splendour of Truth and Love. That person will endeavour without hindrance to realize the Self, and finally succeed in merging with the Universal and Eternal.
Liberated from the tangle of ignorance or maya, the mind will fade away. The long-hidden secret will be revealed.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
When your heart is filled with good thoughts and feelings, all that comes out of the senses - your speech, your vision, your action - will all be pure
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Sun Dec 28, 2014 2:27 pm
The Saddest Secret in the World
http://www.mindpowernews.com/Saddest.htm
The saddest secret in the world is that you're miserable by choice. You don't want to get better. You are content to wallow in your own fecal matter, like a hog.
I personally have no problem with that. It's your life. Do your thing.
Just don't act as if you aren't, with each decision made day after day, singularly responsible for ruining it.
http://www.mindpowernews.com/Saddest.htm
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Mon Dec 29, 2014 6:28 am
When is the price to pay to acquire enduring happiness?
Everyone should treat whatever happens to them as gifts from the Divine. Pleasure and pain should be treated alike as Divine gifts.
There is a unique joy in this process. In daily life we tend to treat defeat, loss or grief as calamities. But nothing occurs in the world without a cause.
Hunger is the cause for eating. Thirst is the cause for drinking. Difficulties are the cause of sorrow.
If you would like to enjoy enduring happiness, you must discover the source of such happiness. That source is love.
There is nothing greater than love in this world. Everything has a price. The price to be paid for enduring happiness is Divine Love.
The primary wealth for man is Love. Everyone should seek to acquire this wealth. With this wealth anyone can enjoy enduring bliss.
- Divine Discourse, 1 Jan 1998
Never feel depressed when you are weighed down by difficulties. The Divine will never impose on you the ordeals which you cannot bear.
Source: radiosai.org
Everyone should treat whatever happens to them as gifts from the Divine. Pleasure and pain should be treated alike as Divine gifts.
There is a unique joy in this process. In daily life we tend to treat defeat, loss or grief as calamities. But nothing occurs in the world without a cause.
Hunger is the cause for eating. Thirst is the cause for drinking. Difficulties are the cause of sorrow.
If you would like to enjoy enduring happiness, you must discover the source of such happiness. That source is love.
There is nothing greater than love in this world. Everything has a price. The price to be paid for enduring happiness is Divine Love.
The primary wealth for man is Love. Everyone should seek to acquire this wealth. With this wealth anyone can enjoy enduring bliss.
- Divine Discourse, 1 Jan 1998
Never feel depressed when you are weighed down by difficulties. The Divine will never impose on you the ordeals which you cannot bear.
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:52 am
Why should we persist in imploring the Divine to reside in our hearts forever?
The nature of human beings is Love. You cannot survive even for a moment, when deprived of Love. It is the very breath of your life.
When the six vices, to which you were attached for so long, disappear, Love will be the only occupant of your heart; but Love has to find an object, a loved one. It cannot be alone.
Direct your heart full of love towards the Divine who is the Embodiment of Love, Purity, Service, Sacrifice and Selflessness. Then there will be no scope for any other attachment to grow.
Let this love for the Lord, step-by-step become deeper, purer and more self-denying; until at last, there is no other need for thought and the individual is merged in the Universal.
When Divine enters the heart of man, demons have no longer a place therein. Darkness and light do not co-exist; Light removes every inch of darkness.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
When the mind is pure, unselfish and unwavering, the Divine appears in all His purity and fullness.
Source: radiosai.org
The nature of human beings is Love. You cannot survive even for a moment, when deprived of Love. It is the very breath of your life.
When the six vices, to which you were attached for so long, disappear, Love will be the only occupant of your heart; but Love has to find an object, a loved one. It cannot be alone.
Direct your heart full of love towards the Divine who is the Embodiment of Love, Purity, Service, Sacrifice and Selflessness. Then there will be no scope for any other attachment to grow.
Let this love for the Lord, step-by-step become deeper, purer and more self-denying; until at last, there is no other need for thought and the individual is merged in the Universal.
When Divine enters the heart of man, demons have no longer a place therein. Darkness and light do not co-exist; Light removes every inch of darkness.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
When the mind is pure, unselfish and unwavering, the Divine appears in all His purity and fullness.
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:16 am
Having been born in this human form, what should we strive for?
It is creditable if a human behaves as a human being. It is laudable if they behave as the Divine, that they really are! But to behave as a demon or as a beast is despicable indeed!
For, people were long born a mineral, died a mineral; then they promoted themselves to be born as a tree and died as a tree. Subsequently they got promoted as an animal, and finally rose to the status of a human being. This rise from one scale to another has been acknowledged by science and spiritual experience.
Now alas, they are born as human and die as human. It is a greater shame if they slide into a beast or a beastly ogre. Praise is due, only if they rise to the divine status. That is real fulfilment of one’s destiny. Therefore resolve today to avoid contact with vices, develop attachment to virtues, and transmute your heart into an altar for your beloved Lord.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
Fill your heart with the light of love so that the evil qualities of hate, greed and conceit find no place therein.
Source: radiosai.org
It is creditable if a human behaves as a human being. It is laudable if they behave as the Divine, that they really are! But to behave as a demon or as a beast is despicable indeed!
For, people were long born a mineral, died a mineral; then they promoted themselves to be born as a tree and died as a tree. Subsequently they got promoted as an animal, and finally rose to the status of a human being. This rise from one scale to another has been acknowledged by science and spiritual experience.
Now alas, they are born as human and die as human. It is a greater shame if they slide into a beast or a beastly ogre. Praise is due, only if they rise to the divine status. That is real fulfilment of one’s destiny. Therefore resolve today to avoid contact with vices, develop attachment to virtues, and transmute your heart into an altar for your beloved Lord.
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
Fill your heart with the light of love so that the evil qualities of hate, greed and conceit find no place therein.
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:14 am
How can we transform our mind and heart to be an ocean of peace and love?
Destroy all shoots and sprouts of desire; then your "Lake of your inner consciousness" will be sublimated into "the Pure Ocean of Milk", where the Lord reclines on the serpent-couch.
Your real Self will, like the celestial swan, revel in the placid waters of that cool lake thus transformed, and discover endless delight.
The story of the Divine’s miracles is all pure nectar; everyone can drink their fill from any part of that ocean of nectar. The same sweetness exists in every particle.
The love of the Divine and the love for the Divine are both eternally sweet and pure, whatever be your choice of worship to accept or attain it.
Sugar is sweet when you eat it during the day or in the night! To the person who eats, the time difference – night or day matters, but not for the sugar. Sugar is sweet and consistent in taste, always! So is Divine Love, holy and inspiring ever!
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
A peaceful mind is the abode
Source: radiosai.org
Destroy all shoots and sprouts of desire; then your "Lake of your inner consciousness" will be sublimated into "the Pure Ocean of Milk", where the Lord reclines on the serpent-couch.
Your real Self will, like the celestial swan, revel in the placid waters of that cool lake thus transformed, and discover endless delight.
The story of the Divine’s miracles is all pure nectar; everyone can drink their fill from any part of that ocean of nectar. The same sweetness exists in every particle.
The love of the Divine and the love for the Divine are both eternally sweet and pure, whatever be your choice of worship to accept or attain it.
Sugar is sweet when you eat it during the day or in the night! To the person who eats, the time difference – night or day matters, but not for the sugar. Sugar is sweet and consistent in taste, always! So is Divine Love, holy and inspiring ever!
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
A peaceful mind is the abode
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:14 am
How can we transform our mind and heart to be an ocean of peace and love?
Destroy all shoots and sprouts of desire; then your "Lake of your inner consciousness" will be sublimated into "the Pure Ocean of Milk", where the Lord reclines on the serpent-couch.
Your real Self will, like the celestial swan, revel in the placid waters of that cool lake thus transformed, and discover endless delight.
The story of the Divine’s miracles is all pure nectar; everyone can drink their fill from any part of that ocean of nectar. The same sweetness exists in every particle.
The love of the Divine and the love for the Divine are both eternally sweet and pure, whatever be your choice of worship to accept or attain it.
Sugar is sweet when you eat it during the day or in the night! To the person who eats, the time difference – night or day matters, but not for the sugar. Sugar is sweet and consistent in taste, always! So is Divine Love, holy and inspiring ever!
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
A peaceful mind is the abode
Source: radiosai.org
Destroy all shoots and sprouts of desire; then your "Lake of your inner consciousness" will be sublimated into "the Pure Ocean of Milk", where the Lord reclines on the serpent-couch.
Your real Self will, like the celestial swan, revel in the placid waters of that cool lake thus transformed, and discover endless delight.
The story of the Divine’s miracles is all pure nectar; everyone can drink their fill from any part of that ocean of nectar. The same sweetness exists in every particle.
The love of the Divine and the love for the Divine are both eternally sweet and pure, whatever be your choice of worship to accept or attain it.
Sugar is sweet when you eat it during the day or in the night! To the person who eats, the time difference – night or day matters, but not for the sugar. Sugar is sweet and consistent in taste, always! So is Divine Love, holy and inspiring ever!
- Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, 'The Bhagavatha'.
A peaceful mind is the abode
Source: radiosai.org
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Re: Life 23 (Jul 14 - Feb 15)
by winston » Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:37 am
Why should we consistently practice the five human values ?
The Divine permeates the entire universe. He is present in every human being, nay in every living being. The entire creation is the manifestation of Divinity.
It is not enough to simply have a human body. As the Divine is present everywhere, in every being, practising human values are considered to be so sacred and important. Hence, you must cultivate the human values of Truth (Sathya),Righteousness (Dharma), Peace (Santhi), Love (Prema) and Non-violence (ahimsa).
Never tell a lie under any circumstances. If you adhere to truth, righteousness will follow. Where truth and righteousness go together, there peace will be. Where there is peace, there will be love too. There can be no place for violence when there is love.
First and foremost, one has to develop love.
'Love is Divine, Divine is Love. Truth is Divine, Divine is Truth.' Truth and Love are verily the embodiments of Divinity.
- Divine Discourse, 25 Dec 2009.
Cultivate your heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love
Source: radiosai.org
The Divine permeates the entire universe. He is present in every human being, nay in every living being. The entire creation is the manifestation of Divinity.
It is not enough to simply have a human body. As the Divine is present everywhere, in every being, practising human values are considered to be so sacred and important. Hence, you must cultivate the human values of Truth (Sathya),Righteousness (Dharma), Peace (Santhi), Love (Prema) and Non-violence (ahimsa).
Never tell a lie under any circumstances. If you adhere to truth, righteousness will follow. Where truth and righteousness go together, there peace will be. Where there is peace, there will be love too. There can be no place for violence when there is love.
First and foremost, one has to develop love.
'Love is Divine, Divine is Love. Truth is Divine, Divine is Truth.' Truth and Love are verily the embodiments of Divinity.
- Divine Discourse, 25 Dec 2009.
Cultivate your heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love
Source: radiosai.org
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