THOUGHTS OF SRI SAI BABA AND UPASANA

[PiyaSoni]

OMSAIRAM!!

Message- 5
Religion Is The soul's Nourishment!
Delivered by BABA to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
on 7th November 1952

No man can live without religion. It is the vital part of his life. It is tha living water,
which no person can afford to miss. It is the soul's nourishment. It is the gateway to higher
and better life. It is the discarder of man's ignorance, for however learned he may be in material
science, if he disowns God and the hereafter, he is the most to be pitied for his gross ignorance.

Religion binds the soul to God. It is immaterial in which religion a man may be born. He must
have the main sense of religion.That is he must know the purpose and goal of life and act
according to the scriptures of the world. All scriptures are alike in their teachings on cardinal points.

Remain true to your self and work your way to spiritual heights discarding all that is gross
and carnal. Make God alone the target and goal in your life. Ponder on Him alone and none
else. He is the alchemy of your life, the apex of your aspirations. Bank your faith on God.
He alone would pull you from the morass of life and crown you with success.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 6
God Knows No Language Except Of The Heart, Soul And Spirit
Delivered by BABA to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
on 8th November 1952


Build a temple of worship in your heart. God responds to prayers that emanate
from the heart and not from the lip. Seek God with all the warmth of your soul,
heart and mind. God knows no language except of the heart. Immerse your
mind in God. Kndle your heart and enflame your soul with the fire of the spirit
with in you. Make God the bedrock of your faith, the bulwark of your life, the
target of your goal. Whosoever worships Him with the fullness of his heart
awakens to a new consciousness. It is the consciousness of the spirit within
man, struggling to win union with the Absolute.

This awakening of consciousness brings in its wake a larger life, full of
understanding of the higher values so essential for establishment of peace
and harmony on the terrestrial plane.

Like the fruit that falls on the ground when it is ripe, the soul seeks its level,
when it becomes ripe for its flight from the imprisonment of the body.

Souls is spirit. It is full of life and fire. Body is wooden. It is subject to decay
and death. Guard the soul by discarding the body. Let the soul triumph and
not your body, for in the triumph of the soul is your ultimate salvation and
attainment of Eternal Bliss.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[PiyaSoni]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 7
Peace, Harmony, Love- These Form The Rhythm Of Life
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
on 9th November 1952

Peace, Love, Harmony-these form the rhythm of life. They are the vibrant factors which
promote happiness. Peace is the antagtonist of discord, war, hatred and bitterness of feeling. Discard
all that is bitter in your heart, forgetting and forgiving all those who do evil in life. No man can live in
peace unless he makes virtue his spouse and unselfishness his comrade in life.

Peace is the harbinger of love and love is the most sacred element in man. It is divine nectar. It is the
soul of divinity, the parent of all virtures, the source of true happiness. Keep the fire of love burning in
your heart. Love all, without distinction. Life is divine comradeship. It is the light of truth. It is the pattern
on which God has woven His whole universe for the happiness and bliss of all creatures.

Make your life a book of love, end to end. Let every page and every line be the mirror of God, reflecting
His beauty, His mercy,His grace,His gentility,and above all, His great love which lightens the forces in the
universe,harmonizing all life, which is one. Love begets Love. Love your neighbour as you love yourself
and God will love you with a treble force. Make love the cornerstone of your life, the foundation of the
whole edifice, the fulcrum of all your activities, the symbol of your perfection.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM , JAI JAI SAI RAM !!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 8
Who Is A Superman?
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
on 10th November 1952


Who is a Superman? He who, like a warrior in the battle of life, puts on the armour
of righteousness and raises an eternal fight against all the demons of vices and
comes out victorious. It is he who, disregarding his own personal interests, dedicates
his life to God and all mankind, whom he serves with a singular aim and in the spirit of
complete self-abnegation. It is he who enshrines in his heart love for God and all persons,
without any distinction. It is he whose mission is to spread God's Gospel of love and harmony,
peace and beautitude. It is he who, fearless of all consequences, waits on no man, but
seeks his own way and is never daunted by the arrows of calumny and insipid lies. His
banner is Truth;his gospel is love, the light of wisdom shines from his eyes. His mind is
ever alert to help every cause for the good of all mankind. He seeks no patronage. The
poor are his friends. He is God's own chosen son to spread His message of love and to
show the goal of life to every human soul.

Such a man with super abundant powers and gifts to bring about a spiritual revolution and
reformation of unique type-such as he is a Superman.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[PiyaSoni]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 9
Self-Effacement
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 11th November 1952

Self-effacement is the flower of perfection. Egotism is the bane of life.
It is the devil in man, masquerading as Virtue. It is the negation of life of the spirit.
It is the monarch of ignorance. It leads to strifes, animosities, vulgarities, insipid
strivings and vainglory. Discard the ego and be humble in life. Humility is the crown
and sceptre of wisdom. It is the badge of spirituality.

If you wish to rise and reach the higher steps in the ladder of spirituality, discard
the trappings of the ego and seek God and God alone and not the applause of your
vile and wicked world. Self-effacement is the garment woven in the fabric of humility.
It is worn by those who love God in purity of heart and soul.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM !!!

[PiyaSoni]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 10
What Is The Goal Of Life?
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 12th November 1952

What is the goal of life? Very few raises this question. Many slumber in darkness.
The objective of life is not the pursuit of physical pleasures, the true object of life
is God. Seek Him in the inner cave of your heart. Worship Him with all the fire of your
heart's devotion. An ounce of godliness is worth more than million tons of righteous
possessions and gains. Truth alone will survive. It is eternal, for Truth is God and
God is Truth.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 11
Righteousness- The Most Potent Factor In Life
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 13th November 1952


Virtue is the immortal part of man. Lead a life of virtue and you will gain immortality.
No man gain access to God unless he loves, adores and worships God, dressed in
humility and bedecked with the feathures of virtue.

Righteousness is the most potent factor in life. It is the axle on which the wheel
of the chariot moves and takes you to the Abode of God. It is the parent of all
virtues- love and gentility, purity, and serenity, tolerance and forbearance, charity
and selflessness. If these be added,self-effacement, sacrifice,sincerity, self-surrender
to the will of God and utter renunciation of all desires and disregard for all earthly
attachments and enjoyments, the way to God-realisation becomes easier and possible.
The path for the traveller to the goal is narrow and thorny but it is the safest for him
to choose. For broader the path, more difficult it becomes as the traveller goes
along and it leads not to the goal.

Seek eternity. Be not baffled by the tempests of life. Be not seduced by the gaities
of life. Seek God in all earnestness,in all purity of heart and He will lead you to your goal.


OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 12
Gain Mastery Of The Soul And Mind
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 14th November 1952

Mankind has abolished the system of slavery but your world is still full of persons
who lead a slavish life. They are slaves to their senses. So long as man does not
gain mastery of his soul and mind, he shall be construed as a slave. To err is human
but to continue in the muddle of errors is disastrous. He must rise every time he falls
and make a bid for freedom of his soul from the entanglements of earthly desires.

Abandonment of desire is renunciation and without renunciation the goal of life can
not be reached. He must practise renunciation, living in the world, for to abandon the
world all together is neither easy nor quite desirable. He must be a Yogi in spirit and
in truth and he will realise God, whether he practises renunciation, living in the midst
of life's giddy ways or in the solitude of the wilderness.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 13
Break The Chain Of Maya With The Hammer Of Self-Consciousness
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 15th November 1952

God's laws are just and indissoluble. He blends mercy with justice for He loves to
be kind to all His creatures. But loving and kind as He is, no one can escape the
consequences of defying His orders and commandments. Shun sin, for it is the cobra
that will poison your body and mind and make your soul unhappy.

Nothing can taint the soul, for it is a part of divinity. But the unhappy soul, in spite
of its original stainlessness, is deprived of its right to return to its place of origin,
if man in his stupidity and ignorance exercises his will in contradiction to God's laws
and commands.

Put on the garment of purity.Burn away all dross in you in the fire of suffering. Break
the chain of Maya with the hammer of self-consciousness. Make conscience your sole
judge and monitor. Not all the wealth of the world, not all the glory and pomp, not all
the applause of the people, will heal your inward wound, which will keep on festering ,
till it covers you wholly and you sink in dire abjectness, if you forsake God and His laws
and commands. Be sure of this, that God's mills grind slowly but they grind exceedingly
fine. No one can escape the relentlessness of His laws.


OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message- 14
Seek The Hidden Light
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 16th November 1952


GOD is the only reality. This world is a delusion. See God in everything from the sod
of the earth to the star in the sky and you shall understand that there exists in the
universe nothing but GOD. Don't be guided by what you see with your physical eyes.
What you see is not real. The real is hidden from your physical sight. When you see
the hidden, you will realize the mysteries of GOD and His universe. You will realize
and understand the aim and object of life. Do not drift like a piece of wood on the
waters in the river of life, but make a deep plunge and find out pearls of truth for
the guidance of life.

See the hidden light. It shall illuminate your mind, heart and soul and lead you to
the kingdom of God, which is eternal and infinite.

Don't think that you are a finite body. Don't think that life is a leap from birth to death.
It is a continuos chain from birth to death and from death to birth. It can be brocken
only when the soul disentangles itself from the sheaths of the lower planes with
which it is entangled. Seek submission to the will of God by practice of vairagya and
you shall attain freedom from the chain of birth and death. Union with God is the goal of life.
Seek Him and Him alone and He will guide you, inspire you from all your earthly
entanglements and take you to the goal of eternal bliss.


OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[PiyaSoni]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message - 15
The Greater The Trial, The Greater The Reward
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 17th November 1952

The darkest cloud has a silver lining. The pall of dark night is lifted up when the sun
shines in all its brightness and glory. Even if the struggle be hard, why be sad and
gloomy? For, is not God, your Father, near you, to befriend you? Keep your mind still
like the waters of the deep lake. Stand firm like a rock and shrink not if calamities pour
on you, like a hurricane. The greater the trial, the greater the reward; the greater the
mystery, the greater the happiness, that must follow like the sunny day, when the
night is over.

Stain not your mind or body with impurity. Walk in the path of rectitude, with love for
all-smile for a kick and forgiveness to all. Make that the ideal of your life, if you wish to
win the race and come out triumphant from the struggle of life.

Hatred, malice, revenge, jealousy, bigotness, pride, greed, lust, sloth- these are the
companions of satan. Love, purity,righteousness, gentility,, humility,tolerance,forbearance,
broad-mindness,contentedness, culture, labour,sincerity,loyalty,one-mindness-these are
the fragrant flowers that grow in the garden of God. Make a bouquet of them and carry it
with you, for each flower is reminiscent of God's glory and a remembrancer of His kingdom.
Make virtue your crown and vice a footstand , to trample it under your feet. Be a master ,
not a slave of your mind, body and senses.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message - 16
Ladder Of Evolution
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 18th November 1952

The inequalities in life that you see are because of the Law of Evolution operating
in the universe. The process of evolution cannot work equally in all, because of
various factors involved, the principal of which is man's own free will. When he
uses his will in contradiction to God's will and refuses to be guided by divine wisdom,
he lengthens his process of evolution. It is only when he suffers, he begins to yearn
for God. This yearning for God is an indication of an upsurge for higher things of life.
He begins to realise that what is visible is not lasting and true. He craves for things
of the spirit. He yearns for eternal peace and rest. This yearning for the higher things
of life takes him into a new channel. The old ways and modes of life become distasteful
to him.He leaves off carnal pleasures and takes to the path of Bhakti, Gnana, and Dharma
Yoga. He gives his all in all to God. He works for God and God alone and not out of any
attachment to the fruits of his labour. He sees God in every human being and loves them
all without any distinction. The doors of divine wisdom open out to him. He is content to
God's love, which enriches his soul, heart and mind and makes him happy.

Each man has to climb the ladder of evolution and go through varied experiences of life
for the purification of his soul till he reaches the last step in the ladder and enters God's
Kingdom of Eternal Bliss. This process of evolution in each individual takes a long time.
It requires countless births but there is no restriction of any kind, for by God's grace,
human souls can be raised to reach the top of the ladder, quicker and faster. The
process of evolution can be quickened, if man wills it and if he wins God's Grace.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!


Message - 17
Death And The Sinner
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 19th November 1952

People look upon death with grim fear. It is because they are unaware of their future
destination. The good and virtuous should be happy to die for death is a passage to
higher realms of peace and bliss. It is only the sinner who carries the load of sin along
with his soul. This load he has to unburden before he can start a new race for life on
the earth. He must go through the path of purification to start a new lease of life. This
course of purification does not end immediately. It goes on from birth to birth and from
earth to the spirit world, for countless years, till purged of all sins and perfected in spirit,
he becomes ripe for union with God, the Absolute Spirit.

God's mercy is so great that even to the worst sinner He gives a chance and hope to
recover the lost ground and re-enter into the realm of bliss from which he has been an
exile. For every soul is a spark of God and having emanted from such a high origin, must
return back to its home. Such is the destined lot of every human soul.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

[ShAivI]

OM SAI RAM!!!

Message - 18
Trample Sin But Do Not Despise The Sinner
Delivered by Baba to Yogi. M.K.Spencer
On 20th November 1952

Sin is negation of virtue. It is the greatest obstacle in the struggle of life.Sinfulness
is Godlessness. To commit a sin, whether in thought, work or deed, is to invite terrible
consequences both in this life and hereafter. Sin is a fetter, a clamping machine
which kills you inch by inch and gives you no rest or peace of mind.

Keep away from the monster of sin and seek virtue as your friend and lifemate.
It is virtue that brings peace and happiness.Sin creates disunion, disharmony,
distress, distraction, dissipation of energy and disease of mind,body and soul.
Destroy sin with the hammer of God's name. Keep on shouting the name of God
and the temptress sin will not make an assault on you. A life of sinlessness is a
 life of perfection, which God wants His children to strive for.

Trample sin under your feet but do not despise the sinner.Pity him and raise him
from the morass of despair. Purify his heart, mind and soul and take him Godward.
It is possible to rise from the state of sinfulness to the heighest state of saintliness.
Sinfulness is only one aspect of human life. It is a transient aspect for no sinner can
live in the sink of sin for a long time. He must come out, by means of his own remorse
and suffering and breathe the free air of joy and sunshine, which is God's measure
for all His creation.

There is no such thing as eternal punishment. There is eternal bliss, which is the
birthright of every human soul. But there is no eternal fire of hell. Heaven and hell
do exist but not in the sense men think them to be. Sinfulness is hell. Righteousness
is heaven. It is only by breaking the fetters of sin and leading a life of desirelessness
would you be able to win God's love and grace and enter into His kingdom of eternal bliss.

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM !!!

[v2birit]

OM SAI RAM!!!


Message 2
FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT!
Delivered by BABA to  Yogi. M.K.Spencer
on 4th November 1952


"Man is a weary traveller on the earth plane. There is a load on his back and his
mind is shrouded with thoughts of fear and frustration. Footsore and heartsore,
he drags on for he knows not his destiny. Bound in ignorance, he makes himself
his God and worsens his lot as he treks his way in the wilderness of dried up
hopes and frustrated designs. Selfishness and sin drag him into an endless
chain of misery and suffering. Caught in the snare of Maya, he losses sight
of the reality and sinks deeper and deeper in to the pit of moral degradation.
It is only when the sting of conscience bites him and remorse takes hold of him,
he seeks freedom from his enslavement. Remorse and repentance opens a new
way to life. Behold, his ways are changed. There isn't any cloud of darkness on
his face. He awakens to a new consciousness and is seized with a new force.
It is the force of the spirit, which the sting of conscience has awakened and
liberated. No longer a weary traveller, but a bright soldier, he forces his way
and knows the destined goal that awaits him.

Not sin by virtue; not self but selflessness; not desire but desirelessness;
not pride but egolessness; not greed but renunciation; he knows now, as
constituting his armour in the battle of life. Fortified in this manner, with
burning love and devotion of God, he seeks the path of spiritual victory.
He vanquishes his foe by self- mastery and wins the goal- God's own
kingdom of Light and Eternal Bliss."

OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!

Sai Ram. Thankyou for sharing these nectarine Sai baba messages.
These messages completely guide us to the correct path of life, without hiding anything.

e.g. look at the sentence in red above..
If we look at the state of the world, we see that people in the world

1. engage in lot of sin
2. they engage in selfishness
3. they are highly desireful
4. they have lot of ego
5. they are utmost greedy

All this due to want of spiritual knowledge & knowledge does not come without doing good deeds. Thus it is a vicious circle. There is no hope for these jeevas.

Only Saints being merciful, reform even the sin-doing people. Hence just as only trees, emit oxygen, which sustains life, like that only saints supply the path for reformation. In the absence of saints, human race will become extinct under the load of sin.

Om Sai Ram