Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam - November 08, 2024
Narration
Translated
Which is the best Name and Form of God to contemplate on? On the eve of global Akhanda Bhajan, as we prepare to sing His praises, Bhagawan clarifies for us.
Man's duty is to sanctify his days and nights with the unbroken smarana (recollection) of the Name. Recollect with joy, with yearning. If you do so, God is bound to appear before you in the form and with the name you have allotted Him, as most beautiful and most appropriate! God is all Names and all forms, the integration of all these in harmonious charm! Gods designated in different faiths, adored by different human communities, are all limbs of the One God that really is. Just as the body is the harmonious blending of the senses and the limbs, God is the harmony of all the forms and names that man gives Him! Only those who are ignorant of the Glory of God will insist on one Name and one Form for His adoration and what is worse, condemn the use by others of other names and forms! Since you are all associated with Sathya Sai Organisations, I must warn you against such silly obduracy. Do not go about proclaiming that you are a sect distinct and separate from those who adore God in other forms and names. Thereby you are limiting the very God whom you are extolling.
- Divine Discourse, May 17, 1968
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Men may be different in form, name and colour and their country and historical circumstances may vary. But God has no such differences. - BABA
— Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

