Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - December 07, 2023
Narration
Translated
What is the subtle truth we must strive to understand and what stops us from grasping it? Bhagawan lovingly reminds and motivates us today.
The innumerable waves on the vast ocean contain the same water as the ocean regardless of their forms. Likewise, although human beings have myriads of names and forms, each is a wave on the ocean of Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being-Awareness-Bliss). Every human being is invested with immortality. He is the embodiment of love. Unfortunately, he fails to share this love with others in society. The root cause of this condition is the fact that man is consumed by selfishness and self-interest. All his words, thoughts and actions are inspired by self-interest. He has become a puppet in the hands of self-interest. Only when this self-interest is eradicated man will be able to manifest his inner Divinity. Every individual is an incarnation of the Divine. But few attempt to understand this. Developing attachment to the body and forgetting his Divine essence, man leads a meaningless existence. To get rid of selfishness, man has to engage himself in selfless service and chanting the name of God.
- Divine Discourse, Sep 14, 1997.
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Only the man who gives up his self-interest and regards the happiness of others as his own and devotes himself to their well-being is a truly selfless person. - BABA
— Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

