(53)

There is only one gift I accept -

Your love for Me that comes from your heart.

A love that comes spontaneously,

Expecting no rewards.

When I see this earnestly,

I stand right before you,

Directing you in every way,

To bring you closer.

So come My child,

Come dance with Me,

Arm in arm together.

Pour all your love into Me,

And merge with Me forever.

(52)

Connect a phone line

Between you and Me,

And call on Me, whenever you yearn

To hear My voice speak.

If the phone rings and no one answers,

Do not think I am not there.

For one day when your yearning 

To speak to Me is really true,

I will pick up the phone,

and you will hear Me say, "I love you too!"

(51)

Once, a young  man passed Me on a road,

With a lot of baggage on his back.

"What do you look for?", I asked.

"I look for God",  he said.

I said, "Come let Me show you the way."

He laughed and thought of Me mad.

Ten years later I saw him older,

Passing on the same road.

He had more baggage on his back.

Looked a little older and more tired than before.

"What do you look for?", I asked.

"I look for God",  he said.

"Come let Me show you the way." I said.

He laughed and brushed Me aside.

Forty years later I saw him again,

Old and very grey.

His vision blurred and could hardly walk,

With even more baggage.

He came upto Me and asked,

"Do you know where God is?"

He looked into My eyes and said,

I know now who You are,

But it is too late now.

How can I make this journey,

For my body lacks strength.

I smiled and reminded him,

That I always give another chance.

There is always another birth, I said,

For you to start your journey all over.

So do not waste time

Taking several births.

In every birth at one stage,

You will find Me standing and waiting.

For I have always chosen 

A path for you long before.

So place your faith in Me,

Hold My hand,

And walk with Me

back home.

(50)

When your love for Me is true,

I respond at all times.

My words echo,

"I know, I am present, do not worry",

When you hear these words,

Know for sure,

That the fairy tale will end "happily ever after"

(49)

Before your trouble arrives,

I am present the day before,

To prepare you and give you strength,

To show you that I am always there.

I want to seize your fears,

Make you brave.

So Smile My bhakta,

"Why fear when I am here,"

I say over and over again.

(48)

Let your mind have no thoughts,

Other than Mine alone.

The mind is a frog leaping from thought to thought,

Leaving you in an unrestful state.

Allow Me to open the door and enter into your life,

To tame your mind.

Like a circus ring leader,

Let Me train your mind to think of Me,

And elevate the beast-like thoughts

To divine ones.

(47)

Do not waste your time

In discussing My teachings,

Use the time 

To understand them,

To practice them,

And to meditate on them.

Discussions only breeds arguments,

And feeds the ego,

So stay quiet,

And assimilate My words alone.

For I speak,

Only when the mind is calm and silent.

(46)

Pray sincerely,

When you are surrounded by darkness,

The darkness of ignorance,

Which loses your peace.

Ask for the "teacher" from the Lord,

To help you, show you the way.

When suddenly, you will see a light,

And a sound of footsteps at the corner,

A muffled voice that prompts you.

And as you pray harder and harder,

The voice that prompts get clearer and clearer.

You are now surrounded by a sense of security,

And the voice declares, "The Guru as come!"

(45)

My eyes direct your eyes the direction to see Me.

My ears direct your ears to hear only of Me.

My smile shows you the happiness I bring.

My hands show your hands

How to serve Me in everyone.

My heart shows you the love I have for you.

Use your body,

As an instrument I have given to you,

To bring yourself to Me.

(44)

There are two ways of love.

One in which you give love

And accept love in return.

The other in which,

You give love, give love, give love...

This love is endless,

It is divine.

It is Me!

so love to give love

And in return receive Me.

(43)

Spread your hands before Me,

And let Me give you My gift of love.

A love that soothes all wounds,

No matter how much it hurts.

So get up and move on with My strength,

No more stones and no more more thorns,

For I am ahead and I have cleared your way.

Just follow closely in My shadow.

(42)

The calamities that sometimes fall upon you,

Are merely an excuse to reach Me.

I will,

You come!

I set My eyes upon you,

Your eyes look back and realize that,

My love for you is true.

So come to Me and test,

I will set free all your fears and doubts.

Place your faith at My feet.

Escape the bondage

And attain liberation!

(41)

Whatever I created was to give you peace.

Unending ranges of towering mountains,

Blue skies, stars, moon  and sun,

Surrounded by oceans, trees and birds.

Leaving all this, you search for things

That give you worry.

That which you created

To give yourself temporary happiness,

Increase your desire and leave you only wanting,

End this rat race that leaves you so unpeaceful.

Turn back around,

It may not be too late for you to return to Me.

Don't keep Me waiting.

(40)

Build a beautiful temple within,

And let it reflect in your character,

Let the beauty from within

Come out and reach out.

Start the foundation with your faith,

Slowly build the walls with your love.

Cover the ceilings with your devotion.

Put within it lights of truth.

A carpet of peace.

Then close your eyes and sit with patience.

Wait for Me.

I will come,

I have come to stay.

You have built My home for Me.

(39)

In your heart, open the book of love,

Give Me this love with unchanging faith,

And once this love is as solid as a rock,

Carve My name over it again and again,

And after you have moulded this rock,

Totally in My form,

Have the patience to know that I will be there,

To ferry you across the stormiest of seas,

When I receive this gift of love,

Of your unchanging faith and patience,

I will lodge Myself in your book of love,

And prompt you the way to Me.

(38)

I have come to erase all your faults,

Every mother wants her child to be perfect,

I have come to teach you the school of "life"

In My school,

I expect the highest degree of discipline.

Humbleness and a strong character,

Are My prerequirements for admission.

After that, I face you with a series of tough tasks,

And when I think you are ready

To pass your final examination,

I hand out your degree and set you free.

(37)

The qualities and defects you see in others,

Are none other but those which are in you,

Present in different proportions.

Recognition of them would not be possible,

If they were not, but a refelection of yours.

So only look upon their qualities

And ignore their defects,

And improve yourself thereby.

(36)

All that you face today,

Are nothing but your own karmas,

For God does not punish and bring misery.

That is why I walk amongst you today,

To see which fruit is ripe to come home with Me,

And which one has to stay on the tree still.

So ignore all your miseries

Your karmas have brought upon,

And realize your truest misery,

Of your separation from Me.

I give you all the options, but it is you that chooses.

Choose Me!

And end it all!

(35)

Whether you are walking on My path,

Or another is lost,

My love for both is equal,

For one I encourage to continue his journey,

And for the other,

I have come to transform.

(34)

Do not do anything to earn praise from others,

For I am the witness to every act,

Those who praise you today,

May blame you tomorrow.

So do it for Me and Me alone.

Because My love for you remains the same.

(33)

Let Me be your inspiration.

Let Me think your thoughts for you.

Let Me say your words for you.

Let Me choose to hear the words for you.

Let Me do all the chores for you.

Why carry all these burdens,

When I am there to take them from you.

Let Me be the doer of all your karmas.

One duty lies with you,

Without which I am helpless.

The duty of calling upon Me

To take these burdens.

Once you have done this,

The burdens fall on Me,

And My grace falls on you.

(32)

Let the wick of your faith burn,

From the smallest candle to the brightest torch,

And with it let it burn,

All the I's that did not belong.

And at the end, let only the light remain.

The light that is bright and full of love,

cool and peaceful,

Streaming within and around you always,

Keeping you in My presence.

(31)

Whatever happens in your life,

Is nothing but My wish.

So do sit back,

And do not question My will,

For I always take care of you at the end.

(30)

I stay awake when you are asleep.

I watch over you and make sure

That you are protected.

Then with a smile in My face

And My hands on your brow,

I wake you up as a loving mother wakes her baby.

I make sure that your eyes are open

And your senses are stable.

Once I am sure you are "widely awakened",

I sit back comfortably

And watch you face the day ahead.

Sleep just enough to keep your body alert

And dedicate the rest of your time to Me.

(29)

There is only one form of God.

The God that is within you.

Awaken it.

Follow it and realize the truth.

Time rolls by and wait for none.

So start your search while there is still some light,

Before it gets too dark.

(28)

Join your hands and pray to Me,

Pray to Me that I am always there.

When life takes its course of its ups and downs,

Pray to Me that I am always there.

When you are lost and there seems no way,

Pray to Me that I am always there.

Listen to your footsteps as you walk.

You will hear a foot step closely behind yours.

For I have followed you

Around this world many a time,

But the time has come that now I walk ahead,

And you follow My lead.

Stop walking in circles My child!

I have now come ahead of you,

To lead you in the strength of My light.

(27)

I would like to write a few words of Mine,

On your mind, as if it were an empty page.

A page that reads no names but Mine.

May those names travel and lodge in your heart,

So very deep within.

And after they have made the home in there,

Let them be a part of the lips that pray,

And call Me over and over again:

"Sai, Sai, Sai, Sai, Sai, ..."

(26)

Your love for Me makes your life complete.

My mission successful,

Our goal is the same.

So shed those tears for Me,

And cleanse yourself.

Break the "I" and bend it,

And end this life with Me.

(25)

I become inseparable from you

When you yearn for Me constantly.

(24)

An act of service is that

Which is ruly done in My presence.

It can be compared to a game of hide and seek.

You are looking for the Swami

Hidden in the ones you serve,

And once you seek Swami,

You have definitely won the game.

I do not scale any acts of service big or small,

What I measure is the quantity of love in it.

Feel very fortunate at the smallest opportunity

To be given to serve.

Every act done with true love is nothing,

But another stone paved,

In your spiritual path to reach Me.

(23)

On Seeing

Your earnest readings of your Gurucharitra,

I Myself has come to instruct you.

I have come

To explain the importance of a Guru in life.

No readings with understanding,

And put into practice are of any use.

You have sat here week after week at My feet,

And made a sincere effort.

It becomes My duty as your Guru to instruct you.

Continue your sadhana,

And not only you, but all will be benefitted.

The love I have come to give you

Is to be distributed.

Those who truly know Me,

Will know the significance of My words.

Place your head at My feet,

And collect all the treasures I have come to give.

(22)

I respond to any form you love or find Me in.

I do not discriminate.

Come to find Me

Through whichever form you love most,

And you will see Me.

I am present

In each and every atom of this universe,

And many, many more.

Any basis of creation, living or nonliving,

Is but My form.

You are surrounded with Me,

But you are unaware of it.

Winter has gone and Spring has come.

Sow your seeds of devotion early,

And enjoy a Good harvest.

(21)

Do not dwell as to what has happened in the past,

And worry about the future.

Concentrate on the present and dedicate it to Me.

With such constant spiritual sadhana,

Your past karmas get negated

Or lestened with My grace,

And the future is automatically taken care of.

The present moment ,every second, every minute,

Is filled with Me communicating with you.

Accept Me wholeheartedly as your present'

Work hard!

Putting your whole undivided attention

To the present,

Gives you wonderful memories of your past,

And anticipation for a peaceful future.

(20)

Do not worry

If others do not take the same road you take.

Too many cars on one street causes a traffic jam.

If you have to worry, worry as to

How many miles you have travelled to reach Me.

Or even if you have started the journey yet?

Worry as to how many more painful births

You have to take.

Swami stands in front of you with a map,

It has a lot of rest stops,

And everything is taken care of.

Slowly but surely.

One day you will reach Me.

(19)

Why do you restrict Me to one room of the house?

Every room must be "Baba's room".

Surround yourself with Me.

Obsess about Me.

Create a Baba madness in your life.

Believe Me this madness is the sweetest of all.

You are sitting in a chariot

Whose reins I have total control of.

Your only duty is to have complete faith in Me,

To get you to your destination.

Do not try to instruct Me how to hold the reins

Or take them from Me.

It will lead only for you to have an accident,

And get disabled for a certain period,

Or get lost in your journey.

I have taken pity on you and come to save you.

Just sit back and enjoy the journey.

(18)

All these years

I have taken different forms of love for you.

As a child I nurtured you

As a loving mother and father.

As you grew

I took the form of your brother and sister,

And taught you to live, share and love others.

When you became a young lady, I became your life partner,

To love and protect you.

To add a rainbow to your life,

I gave you two beautiful sons to love and adore,

And learn selfless love.

But today, I stand in fornt of you in My true form.

Your Baba stands in fornt of you,

To offer you the most divine form of love

You have ever experienced or known.

This love has been with you,

All through different births

And continues.

Come accept My love and free yourself,

From the agony of this limited love

You have experienced till now.

My love is limitless like the sea,

Bright and colorful as the rainbow,

A love that gives, grows,

And expects nothing in return.

(17)

Come to Me  as an innocent newborn child.

Accept Me truly as your mother.

Bring with you purity and sincerity

To learn from Me.

I in turn will teach you of a life,

A life beyond,

In which you and I travel together,

Towards a light,

In which you and I merge as One.

(16)

I have come to bless,

I have come to give.

There is no other purpose of My existence today.

Give Me all your anxieties and troubles

And take from Me peace.

For how long you will lose your identity?

Come, find Me,

And find yourself.

(15)

Look at Me closely,

Go beyond the form of the body and look within.

Look within deep and you will see,

That I am nothing but your own reflection.

(14)

I love to reside in your heart

Once I enter it, tie Me with

Threads of your faith and love.

Make Me a prisoner in your heart.

Once you have imprisoned Me with your love,

It becomes My duty to to refuel your heart

With divine love

And keep it warm and aglow.

Think all your thoughts with your heart,

Speak all your words

That comes truly from your heart,

And carry out all the actions
Prompted by the heart,
For I reside in it.

Once I have lodged Myself in your heart,

Your heart itself becomes but My own voice,

Prompting your welfare at all times.

So keep the doors of your heart open at all times.

You never know when I may step in,

And when I do,

Bolt the doors and imprison Me.

Do not let Me go ever!

(13)

To be a good mother and a teacher,

You must be a good student.

Mere teaching without following is not impressive.

To be a teacher you have to be a degree holder.

You cannot be merely handing out degrees.

A student is a mould of his mother and teacher.

To read and marvel at My teachings

is not what I want.

I look for sincere effort

To put these teachings into practice.

So to be a good teacher,

You must be a good student for life.

This is a constant struggle,

But at least let Me see you trying to struggle,

Get off your wheel chair and try to walk a few steps,

And I will carry you the rest of the way.

(12)

The cleansing of your soul

Can be compared to your daily bath,

The effort to keep yourself clean,

Is nothing but your spiritual sadhana.

The soap and dirt mixture

Can be compared to your desire or vasanas.

And the pure water

To wash off your desires or vasanas,

Is nothing but My grace, which I pour upon you,

When I see sincere effort in your spiritual guest.

(11)

Life can be compared to sleep.

You close your eyes and prefer to be in darkness,

Thinking it to be restful phase.

The dreams are nothing but your life events,

Which you seem so attached to.

Sunrise can be compared to death.

The light streams in,

your eyes open,

the dream ends,

And reality sets in.

The dreams now appear unreal to you.

When I say "death",

I mean the death of your senses of desires.

This is the death of the "I",

The "I" that separates you from Me.

I have come to stop you from sleeping,

To expose the untrue nature of your dreams.

Right outside your window,

So that these sun rays stream on your face,

To force you to open your eyes earlier.

It is only in this true light,

That you will see Me.

(10)

Your whole focus must be to please Me.

Once you please Me.

You automatically please everyone.

(9)

If there is to be any death,

It must be those of your desires.

I have taken a mortal form,

To make you realize that you are eternal.

(8)
Do not waste your life making arrangements,

For they have already been made.

Use that time wisely instead to do prayers,

And seeking Me in all, in every living form,

Only have faith in my arrangements,

And know that I am present

At all times everywhere.

All you have to do is to ask for My help.

I require no time to travel.

My presence is certain anywhere,

Where I am sincerely thought of,

In fact, your thought of Me, and My presence

Are instantaneous.

(7)

For ages I have nurtured,

Loved and brought you up.

My biggest need of all is to love you.

Your ignorance of your true nature

Forces you to be an orphan, Even though,

I, your mother and father, stand right beside you.

You seem to choose this ignorance,

But your suffering has become My suffering now.

I have come to unfold your blindfold,

To remove this ignorance

Which seems to be your blanket of security.

I have come to offer you a warmth,

A new and true security your true nature seeks.

My arms around you for your warmth,

And my Love for you forever and ever.

(6)

Think no thoughts but those of Mine.

Say no words but those of Mine.

See no other than forms of Mine.

Give love to all, as they are all Mine.

(5)
Look for My feet.
I leave My footprints always.
I have paved the road.
Just follow My footprints
And you will reach home.

(4)
It is your bond of marriage that will take My form.

(3)
Meditation is forgetting yourself
And becoming Myself.
I am nothing but pure love.
Fill every cell of yours with My love
And feel My bliss enter.
To realize you as Me is true meditation.
Learn to give love.
Give love, give love!
Do good!
Close your eyes.
And hear My words of encouragement
When you do good.
This is nothing but the beginning of
My communication with you.
Strengthen the communication with Me,
Through your good actions.
This in turn will give you peace.
When your mind is calm and heart is full of love,
Your meditation will be automatic.

(2)
The rose plant can be compared to life.
Full of thorns?
Roses are divine love.
Its beauty and fragrance are both divine.
Thorns are nothing but ego.
Look, even if one small thorn enters your feet,
It hurts.
Why?
Ego hurts. Love does not.
Ego is not our true nature.
Be a gardener.
Cultivate your very own rose plant with love.
Pour pure water over it for it to grow.
When the roses bloom, offer all of them at My feet.
I will accept all that you give with true love;
It is our love for each other,
That connects you and Me.
Love is not to keep, but to give,
So give, give and give and take back loadfuls.

(1)
I have come to answer all your questions.
All will be answered at the right time.
When the time is right The event itself will be your answer.
Look at this window.
It shows day as day and night as night.
If you pull this blind down
You cannot make night day and day night.
So pull up the blind.
I have come to help you to do that.
I will show you day as day and night as night
And accept it.
You work in the day time and sleep at night.
You cannot sleep in the day time and work at night.
Everything is done when the time is right.

Part I

God will surely reveal Himself there,
Where one is convinced of His holy presence.
Awaken for Him - with Him - to Him and by Him -
Let Him be the purpose of your every move.
Those will surely see me who have truly known
to have come for that purpose alone.

The Opening Message

O Child of the Mother Universe
Open your eyes, awaken to stir within,
The sun brings the promise of day light
The light that reaches only
The eyes of this mortal form
Know that the purpose of your existence
Is much greater,
It is much more than simply facing
the light of the day and the darkness of the night,
You are mightier than any storm !
Deeper than any ocean !
larger than the limited blue skies !
You are the light that shines
Much bigger than even the ten million suns.
Awake O lover of truth !
Be alert much before the world
Awakens and to simply bring its chaos -
Be untouched by the panic
unruffled by the confusion
Its time you left the herd
And became the master of your own way,
Together with the blind you are lost,
Break the dependence from the fears of lonliness.
That one is surely lonely that stays with the world
The one that learns to say goodbye
Brings the world with him
Awaken O seeker of wisdom !
Awaken O holder of knowledge !
Be in touch with only the Self.
None other is kinder or wiser.
The one that sees its light,
Will one day find the courage to escape.
Escape O slave of untruths !
The key to experience freedom is none - But YOU!

Humble Pranaams At His Lotus Feet

The Feet of the Lord
Carries the wealth of His Kingdom.
Bend! Touch! And feel its divine richness.

The Voice of the Master

I sang the glory of the Lord with none else in the mind - and none other but Him in the heart - until one day I found the voice of the Master within - then there was only the silence of bliss and the hunger for hearing even more ...

SEEMA M. DEWAN

Prayers to Lord Ganesh

O Lord with curved trunk and huge mighty body,
Whose lustre equals ten million Suns.
I pray to Lord Thee.
Remove all the obstacles in all the acts I do.



Vakratunda mahakaya
surya koti sama prabha
nirvighnam kuru me deva
sarva karyesu sarvada.

This Book Will keep the eyes dry.
Yet - will touch, probe and overwhelm the heart,
Bringing within the stream of tears
That long the lost purity -
Uplifting the one with the courage and hope
That God can never be lost -

Yes! He comes , upon shedding the first tear,
He responds to the very first name -
Behold my dears!
For the Lord has spoken his truth , once again ...

Sathya Sai Gita ..

Krishna gave a discourse to Arjuna,
On a battlefiled of Kurukshetra,
This was a teaching given by the Lord Himself,
Thousands of years ago.
Today I unfold this Gita to you,
In the form of Sathya Sai, to you my Bhaktha.
These messages that I pour upon you,
Are to be understood
By the most ignorant of ignorant.
I give you the precious jewels of wisdom,
To confer upon others.
I am handing out to you today,
All the weapons you need to fight this battle,
I have seen you lose hundreds of times,
Due to lack of faith and purity,
But today, I come as a Mother,
To lift my child from the puddle of dirt,
I will wash you and cleanse you,
Remove al your impurities,
And reveal your true form and your true parents.
Read these messages over and over.
Meditate upon them.
Understand their significance and use them,
To end your body and emerge your atma.
This pure atmic presence that lies in all,
Connects your presence in them,
And ultimately in Me!