The Sai Teachings

The Message

I bring you the message that will confer strength, peace, hope and fulfilment. It may not be pleasing, but it will surely be beneficial! A patient has to take drugs and put himself through regimen that is beneficial; he cannot ask for only sweet medicines and comfortable regimen which pleases him. The Doctor knows what is best for the patient!

Truly speaking, treat your body as a wound, that needs to be washed, bandaged and treated with medicine thrice or four-times a day. That is the real purpose of food and drink. To cure the disease of thirst, water is the drug. Food is the medicine to cure the disease of hunger. Detachment is the medicine to cure the disease of craving for pleasure. For the pure yearning for the Divine and the pursuit that is impelled by it, the necessary first step is a rigorous self-examination to remove all evil habits, tendencies and qualities from within.

The Sai Teachings

Respect

Many are not prepared to respect their parents. You may ask a question as to why one should respect one’s parents. Always, whatever actions you undertake, the reaction will come to you in the future. It is your duty to respect your parents for all that your parents have done for you. If today, you show respect to your parents, then your children will respect you when you grow up. If you make your parents suffer now, your children will do the same in return to you; and tears will flow from your eyes.

If a student wants to lead a life of security and happiness in the future, he must undertake to lead a good life now. It is the beauty of your heart that is important. It is not the external beauty of the body that matters at all. When you have a pure and clean heart, you will have the strength to cleanse the world.

 

Words of Wisdom 1

Please know that often what feels like the end of the world is simply a challenging pathway to a far better place

Don’t rush things. If something is going to happen, it’ll happen at the right time, with the right person and for the best reason

If your path is more difficult, it is because of your high calling

The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it

Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed and rearranged to relocate us to the place we’re meant to be

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time

Remember, when you forgive… you heal…

And when you let go… you grow

 

A horse will reflect exactly what you need to see about yourself…

Are you brave enough to ask?

Are you strong enough to listen?

Are you humble enough to learn?

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others

If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities.

If you believe it won’t, you’ll see obstacles.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step

Practise the Pause

Pause before judging,

Pause before assuming

Pause before accusing

Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly and you’ll avoid doing and saying things you’ll regret later

 

 

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A fruitful Life

Are you aware of the grand goal of your pilgrimage on Earth? Do not stray into the by-lanes and wrong roads, they will only lead you to disaster. You put a lot of faith in things outside yourself and plan to derive joy from and through them. Do you not know that all joys emanate only from the spring within you? You merely envelop the outer things with your own joy, and then, you experience it as though it is from that ‘other thing!’

The recognition of your innate Divinity and the regulation of your daily living in accordance with that Truth is the guiding star for every being, who is caught in the currents and crosscurrents of strife and struggle. Without that guiding divine light, life will become a meaningless farce, a mockery, a game of fools. It is the acquisition of that Self-Awareness, which will make your life earnest and fruitful.

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Our Actions

Spiritual texts teach us a lesson that we should regard our actions as being responsible for our sorrows or joys. But as a human being, you should perform whatever actions you have to perform. Do not think that you will achieve this or that, and do not think that you will be able to do great things without the grace of God. Do not get tired out in that process.

The kind of seeds which you have put in, which have brought you to the position in which you are today, will determine the results that you will get later on. You may be very intelligent and clever. However all your intelligence and cleverness will not enable you to get over your own Karma. Our Creator, prepares a garland of all the good and the bad that you have done as they are and He puts this round your neck when you are born. It is necessary for us to recognise this causal relationship. We are responsible for the good and the bad that we do, and our desires are in fact merely consequences of this.

 

Words of Wisdom

 

Life will keep bringing you the same test over and over again, until you pass it

 

You must learn a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be

 

They laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same

 

Be a writer of your life and a reader of your mind…

the more you know yourself, the less you need approval of others…

 

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart

 

Leadership and Learning are indispensable to each other

 

When you focus on PROBLEMS, you get more problems; when you focus on POSSIBILITIES, you have more opportunities

 

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”

 

Behind us is infinite power, before us is endless possibility, around us is boundless opportunity

 

The more you thank Life, the more Life gives you to be thankful for

 

“I used to believe prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things”

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Always chant the Lord’s name

Internalise the fact that chanting the Lord’s name is highly sacred and efficacious. It serves to remove the impurities within a person, and promotes good and sacred thoughts. When the heart is filled with truth and love, only positive thoughts will arise. There is no meaning in reciting the Lord’s name just once a year.

How often do you take food to nourish your body? Does not your mind require to be fed equally? Contemplation of the Lord is the food for the mind. To feed the belly and starve the mind is like decorating the chariot and starving the horse! To keep the chariot of the body moving, you must feed the horse of the mind. While the body is nourished in innumerable ways, feed the mind in solitude. Chant the Lord’s name constantly and silently within you. Possessing this valuable piece of wisdom, will you not fully leverage it and spare time for precious thoughts of the Lord?