October 16, 2025
What is the true sign of devotion, and how must we express it in everyday life? Bhagawan lovingly guides us today.
Devotion should not be confined to the four walls of the shrine-room or the few minutes you perform Dhyana (meditation). It is a full-time Sadhana (spiritual discipline). Your devotion has to be expressed as worship of everyone, as a living embodiment of Divinity. See God in everyone, even in persons whom you regard as your enemies. Practise that broad and inclusive type of Love. How can you derive happiness by showing love and reverence to a stone idol that does not respond or reflect the feelings? Living beings will return appreciation and gratitude and wish you well. You can see joy growing in their faces. That will confer satisfaction on you. If you cannot educate yourself to love your fellow man, how can you follow the path of dedication to God? Find out the difficulties and troubles burdening others and help them, to the extent you can, to tide over them, and to lead their lives so that they may not recur. Learn to live with other men; share your joys and sorrows with others; be forbearing, not overbearing.
– Divine Discourse, Mar 16, 1973.
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Though the service of humanity is holy, unless it is merged in the bigger ideal of Divinity, men will not benefit, however huge the service is. – BABA
With love,
Baba
#Sri Sathya Sai
Sai Inspires (‘Thought for the Day’, originally in English) is written daily, every day of the year, on a small blackboard, at Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram, Prashanti Nilayam.
