Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Sai Inspires Apr 26, 2025

How can we perform our duties and elevate ourselves unto Him? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today with examples from Indian culture!

When you are driving a car, the car is your God. When you are doing business in market, the market is your God. According to the culture of Bharat, we first make obeisance to the work we have to do. Before undertaking any work, we should regard that work as God. Tasmai Namah Karmane - Upanishads teach us this: “The work I have to do, I regard as God and make obeisance to God in that form”. Let us see the person who plays on tabla. Before he begins to play on it, he pays obeisance to tabla. The harmonium player will make obeisance to the harmonium before he starts. A dancer, before she begins her dance, will make obeisance to her ghunghru (musical anklets). Even a driver who is going to drive a lifeless car, before he holds the steering wheel, makes namaskaram (salutations) to the steering wheel! You do not have to go so far. While driving, if the car hits another person, immediately we make namaskaram to that person. The significance of all this is the faith and belief that God is present in all things. Thus, to regard the entire creation as the form of God and to perform your duty in that spirit is meditation.

- Divine Discourse, May 12, 1981.

Sai Inspires Apr 25, 2025

Which is the best place and time to contemplate on the Lord? Our Beloved Bhagawan kindly reminds us today.

There are no limitations of time or space for the establishment of oneself in the contemplation of the Omnipresent Lord. There is nothing like holy place or special time for this. Wherever the mind revels in contemplation of the Divine, that is the holy place! Whenever it does so, that is the auspicious moment! Then and there, one must meditate on the Lord. That is why it has been announced already before, ‘For meditation on God, there is no fixed time or place. When and where the mind so desires, then and there is the time and place - Na kala niyamo yatra, na deshasya sthalasya cha Yatrasya ramate chittam, tatra dhyanena kevalam’. The world can achieve prosperity through disciplined souls whose hearts are pure and who represent the salt of the earth. In an attempt to promote the welfare of the world, from this very minute, everyone should pray for the advent of such great souls, should try to deserve the blessings of the great, and should try to forget the sufferings of the day!

- Ch 73, Prema Vahini.