June 16, 2025
We all perceive the world with our eyes. But what is it that we miss to see? And how do we have that true vision? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.
People suffer because they have all kinds of unreasonable desires, they pine to fulfil them, and they fail. They attach too much value to the objective world. It is only when attachment increases that you suffer pain and grief. If you look upon nature and all created objects with the insight derived from the inner vision, then attachment will slide away; you will also see everything much clearer and with a glow suffused with Divinity and splendour. Close these eyes and open those inner eyes, and what a grand picture of essential unity you get! Attachment to nature has limits, but the attachment to the Lord that you develop when the inner eye opens has no limit. Enjoy that reality, not this false picture. The Lord is the immanent power in everything; those who refuse to believe that the image in the mirror is a picture of themselves, how can they believe in the Lord, when He is reflected in every object around them? The moon is reflected in a pot, provided it has water; so too, the Lord can be clearly seen in your heart, provided you have the water of prema (love) in it. When the Lord is not reflected in your heart, you cannot say that there is no Lord; it only means that there is no love in you!
– Divine Discourse Feb 02, 1958.
The essence of prema (love) as a sadhana lies in the cultivation of humanitarianism, universal compassion and altruism.
#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.
