March 26, 2025
What is the one faculty we all tend to misuse these days? Bhagawan reminds us so that we may amend our ways and spiritualise this important faculty.
Through the power of vak (speech) one can acquire a kingdom or great wealth. Friends and relations can be got through speech. Through speech, one gets bound and loses his freedom. Even death is brought about by speech. Speech is the life-force of human beings. Speech is the backbone of life. It is all-powerful. Saint Jayadeva addressed his tongue thus: “Oh tongue! You know all about the sweetness of speech! You enjoy truth and goodness. That is why chant the sweet and sacred names of the Lord – Govinda! Damodara! Madhava! Don’t indulge in reviling anyone. Speak sweetly and softly”. “Let your speech be truthful, pleasing, good and free from any resentment,” says Krishna in the Gita. Unfortunately, because such sacred and sweet speech has become scarce, society is riddled with bitterness and discord. The permissiveness of a crazy civilisation has destroyed discipline and morality and turned society into an inferno.
- Divine Discourse, Jul 22, 1994.
A mind turned inward toward an inner vision of God and speech turned toward outer vision of the Lord – both will promote spiritual strength and success. – 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.
