The lesson that the Atma (Divine Principle, Cosmic Consciousness), resident in everyone is the real core of the Universe and that is the supreme sovereign of the Cosmos will certainly bring together all mankind and ensure peace and harmony among the nations. Of what avail is life when this truth is not known?  Every person has to try to know own Truth and lead his/her children into that awareness. The future of every the country depends on the skill and the sincerity of the youth. Therefore, the necessary enthusiasm and encouragement must be generated among the youth.

    Educational institutions would be the nursery for tradition, loyalty to culture, and ideals of service to society. They train youth to benefit by the experience of the previous generations and to march on towards victory in the campaign to master this world and the next. The students today are the teachers of tomorrow's colleges; they have to shape the destiny of the country through their precepts and example.   

     Every child has four debts to discharge - reverence to mother, respect to the father, obedience to the teacher, and adoration to God. Besides these, every child must learn to live in peace and love with other children and other families. Encourage the child to cultivate the pleasure of 'togetherness.'

    They will enjoy it; and, you will be sowing the seeds of social peace. The seeds will grow into universal Peace and universal Bliss. 

    The ideal of simple living and high thinking laid down by the sages of India will lead to happy lives and greater social peace and also to exemplary lives of simplicity and sincerity, of spiritual discipline and steady discipline. Learn the lessons of duty, devotion and discipline from the lips of children; let each child be a ray of sunshine in the home, shedding light and love. Let the child's desire to serve other children and the defectives around be an inspiration to you.

    (In the olden times, when the student underwent the basic training under the teacher, he learnt, before he was 15 years of age, to spin, weave and procure clothes for own use; to produce the food what required; and to look after own needs for basic comfort. He was contented and happy, with simple habits which gave an ample leisure for saadhana, and contemplation of Nature).   

    What is happening today is the opposite. Parents, teachers and leaders are inflaming the passions of young minds and encouraging them to indulge in violent deeds.  It is not good for human to be constantly engaged in violent films and games, exciting food, talk, books, advertisements, etc. They are raajasik (passionate) things that disturb and agitate the mind. The very people who preach the message of peace, who talk of the basic principle of child education, who harp on love, harmony and mutual love, and who elaborate on the principles of social progress and national uplift are themselves undermining these hopes by their example. 

Swami teaches.... (27 - 29 June 2005) 

    Awareness of Reality Through Meditation and Yajna 

   The recent antihuman events in London served an occasion to consider roots of violence and terrorism in view of Swami's Works. If we all are carriers divinity and the divine love within, why then in the world existed and exists the opposite actions directed to kill other divine persons? Is it such a code of life? How to overcome the crying injustice?  

     Human is the child of immortality.  All the fundamentally Atman; the love for the Atman and the endeavour to realise it are the birthright of each individual. There must be mutual love and there must be universal aanandha, resulting from this mutual love.

     However, the reality on the Earth is opposite. From ancient times is known that God is a witness; He can act through humans' conscience, through human's inner state of awareness. When there are no faith and awareness of unity all human beings, God cannot act because the 'background' for God's actions has rejected by humans' blind decisions and desires.  

    Swami teaches humanity about 70 years. But the delusion of human beings is jet deep; seems there is no end to violence. The Golden Age predicted by Swami today really exists in hearts of His devotees. Many devotees have reached to this state and the number of them is increasing every day. When the most of the Earth's habitants will acknowledge the principles of Swami's Teaching and will practice them as their life style,   then the Golden Age can arrive to humanity. Today the Golden Age exists in the form of internal state in minds of people who have faith to Swami and His Teaching.  

     Whatsoever injustice and misery is caused by mankind itself, its selfish actions, not by any extraneous agency. Having all the instruments of joy and contentment in one's possession, if human is miserable, it is only due to one's perverseness, stupidity.

    The wheel of time revolves relentlessly with no interval. The evil of one day emerges as the good of another day; the morals of one sect becomes in the eyes of another, immoral. What is right for one is wrong for another. One man's foe is another's friend. Caught in this trap of duality human swings like a pendulum, unaware of the underlying unity; one struggles with many a fall, many a blind search, stumbling along the track of life. One weeps and laughs,  rejoices and regrets,  halts and hastens - since the beginning of humans' history. This is the tale of human's sojourn on this world. 

    The happenings in the world are quite contrary. What shall we say of human behaviour, what shall we say of the daily bickerings and troubles? What of the conflict of opinions and arguments? What of the lootings and killings? What is the cause of all this? All are our own; all are ourselves. We are pointing the knife against ourselves; is this a sign of purity of mind? What has happened to the injunction laid down in the Vedhas?

    Serve people with no thought of high or low; no service is high, no service is low, each act of service is equal in the eye of the Lord; it is the readiness, the joy, the efficiency, the skill with which you rush to do it that matters.

    Train yourselves to serve God by serving man, in whom there is God installed in the heart. Convince yourselves that the service of man is worship of God. Remember the persons whom you serve are temples, where God is installed. Worship them with the flowers of good words, timely help, and vigilant care. If you send away some one who runs towards your house for shelter from the rain back into the open street, you are inhuman, if you do not do all that lies within your power to alleviate the pain that you find another is suffering from, you are unfit to be called human. Be at least human, even if you do not aspire to become divine.   

    Help others as much as lies in your power; if you cannot give them adequately, at least, feel the agony. "Alas! How much is the suffering they undergo! Lord, relieve it soon," pray thus with all your heart, Swami advises. 

    Each one has come embodied into this world of joy and grief, of growth and decay, of hope and despair, in order to discover the way home, to get back to the source from which he has strayed into this wilderness. But, human is attracted by the phantom lights and noises of the wilderness, by the seeming sweetness of its impact, and he ignores the call of destiny. The senses lead him on and on, deeper and deeper into the maze, until he dies with a moan and a whimper, instead of with a smile and a gesture of gratitude. The years between birth and death are spent in wasteful acquisition and worthless achievements - the heart is sore with unsatisfied desires and unhealthy emotions. This is the delusion, the maayaa (illusory power) that has been shadowing the Divinity that is human's essence.

    Human's ego exults or bewails; it laughs and weeps; it competes and mopes; it swings like a pendulum between joy and grief. It gives no moment of rest, of equanimity. It is agitated when the fruit of the activity is less than expected, or even when it is more, or different, or distorted. That is why the divine scriptures prescribe that everyone should dedicate all his activity

    Famous  saint Shankaraachaarya used to live on alms. In the old days, Imperial princes, who studied in the hermitages had to seek alms and live on what they collected thus. This is for the removal of silly egoism. 

    The vitamins for spiritual enlightenment are sathya, dharma, shaanthi and prema (truth, righteousness, peace and divine love). Assimilate them into your character and conduct and through your enlightenment you shine with fine mental and physical health.  When two people meet, it is considered good manners that each should inquire about the health of the other. This is true of the peoples of both East and West. You ask each other, 'How do you do?' It is as indirect reminding and instructing the other person to use the available present for realizing the God within the Universe and within oneself. It is the as the call to see yourself and hear your inner voice, urging you to discover your own truth. Swami is prompting you to discover your Reality. That is His Mission.

    You should not be saved by the demon of doubt. Doubt comes only from ignorance; it disappears when knowledge dawns. Conclusions drawn on flimsy grounds are always subject to revision. You are born for your own sake. You have to cure yourself of the disease of ignorance, just as you have to cure yourself of the disease of hunger. No one else can save you from both. "Save yourself by yourself," says Swami.

    God is in you, but like the woman, who fears that her necklace has been stolen or lost, recognises that she has it round her neck when she passes a mirror. Similarly human too will recognise that God is in him/her. Science to recognize God within was explored by sages and laid down in clear and simple terms from ancient times. Not to know it and not to practise it is the greatest loss that humans in different countries suffers from terrorism, violence, wars...  

    You must surrender your judgement to the Lord; then, the Lord will assume full responsibility and be the guardian, guide and motive power. The Divine is recognized by gifted people as the vast, the magnificent, the beautiful, the mighty, the majestic, the awesome. But, for the generality of mankind, the consciousness that each one is a miracle sustained by God, that each breath is a witness of God's Providence, that each event is proof of His Presence, comes but rarely in life.  However, the faith in God and power to recognise Divinity are added to human faculties. Then only can the human mind be turned from the world to the Master of the Worlds. Goodness is the most efficacious specific for the illness that lays humanity low. Goodness is the reservoir of even immortality.  Goodness confers great contentment; Aanandha confers great freedom from fear. In fact, when life becomes merged in the thought of God, it is fixed on the pole star.

    Be a true bhaktha and become so small that you wriggle out of the shackles of the senses or be a true jnaani and become so huge, that you escape by breaking the shackles. 

    But, there are many who doubt or question the very existence of God to whom all the intelligence, the vitality, the virtue, the urges which lie beneath activity are to be offered in worshipful activity. For such, the Divine occasionally, out of innate Grace, reveals Itself, through the marvellous manifestation of glory, beyond the limits of the human. The doubters receive without asking; the door is opened without even a knock; the answer is proclaimed for all to hear. (Reet's compilation by Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 4. "You are born for your own sake," Chapter 47; Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 6. "The pole star," Chapter 41; Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 7. "Moving Temples," Chapter 31 and  "The miracle of love," Chapter 32; Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 10.  "Amazing appendix," Chapter 37).