Love is the only offering I accept

SSS 18:23

21 - 11 – 1985

Service renedered without egoism, however small, can be highly beneficial.One must cultivate forbearance and inner strenght, in order to avoid resentment at criticism and redicule while one is engaged in joyful service.
Cultivate love and cleanse your hearts with that Love.Spend that Love in Service and that will make it grow.

Truth and Love---the goals

SSS 18:26

5-12-1985

In order to free himself from the ego, man has to recognize the One Dignity that temporally wears different forms and names to distract him by apparent multiplicity.

In order to solve many problems that arise when one practices the sadhana of Truth, Manu directed man not to speak out unpleasant truth or pleasant falsehood.

Education for transformation

SSS 19:2

20-1-1986

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Education should instill in the student "fear and faith". Fear does not mean timidity. It is fear of sin and faith in God which have to be promoted.

Human values in business management

SSS 23:3

10-2-1990

With regards to Truth, it is often said that to be truthful in business will result in loss.This is not so.Though initially there may be some difficulty, in course of time integrity and honesty will bring their own regard.

Prema must express itself in the business world by the executives developing the feeling that all engaged in the business--managers,workers and others--are members of one family.

The lndweller in the heart

SSS 24:14

28-5-1991

Hence in the sleeping state, what is experienced relates to the panchabhutas(the five physical elements). It is the JIVA who experiences the calmness and happiness of the sleeping state.

Pranava is a menifestation of the Paramatma(Supreme Spirit). The Pranava--constituted by the three sounds A+U+M pervades the three worlds represented by the terms:Bhu,Bhuvah(which is above the Bhu-Loka) and Suvah(the top-most of the three worlds).

Sparks From The Divine Anvil

SSS 26:13

12-4-1993

The heart of the human being is like the sky in which the 'Self' is the sun shining constantly.Just as passing clouds obstruct the vision of the sun temporarily, attachment to world and worries and troubles will obstruct the vision of the Inner Self but once the clouds clear, you can have vision of the Inner Seld which is resplendent within.

Cultivate forgiveness and love

SSS 27:1

1-1-94

The essential nature of love is sacrifice.Under any circumstance it does not give room for hatred.

One characteristic of this love is to give and not to receive. Secondly, love knows no fear.Thirdly, it is only for love's sake and not for selfish motive.When one revels in this attitude of Prapathi, one experiences the bliss of the Divine.For this the prime requisite is Kshama.

Spiritual basis of human values

SSS 29:4

18-1-1996

It is only when men cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means.

Sath-Chith-Aanandha are present in every human being. People out of their ignorance go in quest of Sath-Chith-Aanandha elsewhere.

Full of fangs

SSS 8:41

2-10-1968

Investigate the Truth as far as your intellict leads you;you will come up against the principle of love.

 

The Yajna ( sacrificial fire) is a symbolic sacrifice, of both earthly riches and heavenly aspirations.

Poorna minus poorna is poorna

SSS 6:32

19-10-1966

Bhakthi can alone transform people's hearts into Sathya and Dharma.

 

Take the ups and downs of life as natural; they are incidental to the world of compounds and components.

The world, a training ground

SSS 7:13

28-3-1967

The Lord does not insist on all men following one path and accepting one descipline. There are many doors to His Mansion. The main entrance is, however, moha-kshaya ( the overcoming of attachment).

The mind can build a Silent refuge or tie you up into complex knots. It binds; it loosens bonds. You can sail safe on a sea of Samsar ( worldly life), if you have no leaks in he boat; but through the leaks of Kaama Krodha, Lobha, Moha,Madha or Maatsara( lust,anger,greed,delusion,pride and envy), the writers of Samsaar will enter the boat and it will sink.

Right and left

SSS 5:40

28-9-1965

The very first step is to remove the weeds in the garden of your heart, plucking by roots the briar and bush of lust and greed, of hate and pride and plant in the ground thus cleared the fragrant flower plants of Prema(Love) and the sweet fruit trees of Dharma(Virtue).

Amrithasya Puthraah

SSS 4:12

25-2-1964

Through devotion to God alone can that knowledge be attained. Bhakthi purifies the heart,elevates the feelings and universalises the vision.It also brings down the Grace of God.

Make four resolutions about your life hereafter: Purity, Service, Mutuality and Truth.

The spring of joy

SSS 5:34

13- 7-1965

Man is a mixture of two strands of the same substance, maaya and Maadhava, Moha and Raama, Deha and Dehi,Jada and Chith, Sareeram and Sareeri, Jeeva and Brahman( Divine illusion and God, Delusion and God, Body and Soul, Inert matter and consciousness, Body and the Embodied, individual soul and Supreme Soul).

So too, if you must win the Grace of God, do saadhana at regular timings and connect yourself with God by the cable of smarana(Remembering the Lord).

From every throat, his melody

SSS 7:9

19-3-1967

God is Love,Premamaya, Premaswarupa, Premabhaskara ( full of Love,Embodiment of Love, Sun of Love), as He is described by those who have realised Him. So, he can be attained only through Love.

When you are depressed by what appears to be loss or calamity, engage yourself in Naamasmarana, the recitation and recolection of Names of the Lord; that will give you consolation,courage and true perspective.

Light the lamps of love

SSS 8:24

8-7-1968

If you are used to adoring God in any form, visualize that form in that light. For, Light is God;God is Light. When light meets light, it is all Light. There is no boundary between your light and His light.They merge, they fulfil.

Sing aloud the glory of God and charge the atmosphere with Divine adoration; the clouds will pour the sanctity through rain on fields; the crops will feed on it and sanctify, fortify the food; the food will induce Divine urges in man. This is the chain of progress.

The voice of the ocean

SSS 9:14

29-7-1969

The Geetha says that if you give up all Dharma and take refuge in Him alone, then He will save you from sin and wipe your tears.Giving up Dharma does not mean that you can bid farewell to virtue and tighteous actions;it means, you have to give up the egoism that you are the 'doer', be conformed faith that He is the 'doer' of every deed.

Love the source of love

SSS 6:5

20-2-1966

I have been advising you to do good to others, to make others happy, to help others live comfortably. This is called sath karma (beneficial acts).

The fault is: identification with the body. The body is but a dwelling place, a vehicle, an escasement. See yourself as a resident in it and most of your grief will disappear. You will become less ego-centric, you will then feel kinship with others, who are residents in those other bodies.

Re-conditioning man

SSS 10:32

20-11-1970

For, in the Spiritual path, the first step is 'Selfless Service'. Though selfless service, man can realise the Divinity that is all this Creation.

Man can liberate himself from the cycle of birth and death through detachment from the senses and attachment to the inquiry into his real nature.

Love must Win

SSS 14:8

30- 7-1978

Today people adore the strong, the wealthy and the exalted as their patrons and pretectors. They run after such persons and humiliate themselves by flattering them. But for these three the only Protector,Master and Patron was God.