December 13, 2025
How should we respond, as spiritual seekers, to happiness and sorrow? Bhagawan, clearly, His role in the emotions that we go through in life.
For all the confusion and conflict prevailing in man and in the world today, it is the feelings and thoughts of people that are responsible. We should never criticise others, saying they have harmed us, or retaliate, saying they have hurt us. That person is only an instrument. It is the bad in your mind that is hurting you. Similarly, if someone does good to you, he is only an instrument. It is the consequence of your own good actions that is bringing you good. Therefore, consider whatever good or bad that happens to you as the consequence of your own actions, and not as grace or punishment from God. God is like a postman. The postman delivers one letter to one address, and the people in the house rejoice over the good news contained in it. He delivers another letter at a second house, and there is lamentation over the sad news contained in the letter. Is the postman responsible for the joy or the sadness of the recipients of the letters? No. It is the content of the respective letters that is responsible. What you experience by way of joy or grief is a consequence of your own actions. God is only a witness.
– Divine Discourse, Nov 23, 1994.
The good you do will always follow and protect you. – 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.
