Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Embodiments of Love!

You are all amrutaputras. Hence, constantly remain under that awareness. Proclaim yourself to be amrutaputras. Whatever name has been already given to you, prefix that name with “amrutaputra”. If you consider yourself as anrutaputra, it is a great mistake and a misnomer. Hence, realise your true nature and call yourself amrutaputra.

You should come with empty hands, without even the traditional offerings of pathram, pushpam, phalam and thoyam (leaf, flower, fruit and water). Come with clean hands that proclaim that they have renounced attachment to riches, then, I fill them with grace. I must say that I accept certain things, before giving you that grace; I demand and take sathya, dharma, santhi and prema. I seek the gifts of truth, virtue, peace and love. I draw you to me and then reform and reshape you. I am a kind of smith who repairs broken, leaky, damaged hardware. I repair broken hearts and fragile minds, warped intellects, feeble resolutions and fading faith.

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 38, Chapter 4)

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Fill your hearts with love and let love be the guiding principle in all your activities when you return home. When you have love in your heart, you do not need to worry about anything. God will always be with you, in you, around you and will look after you in all respects. When you say, “Krishna, I will follow You.” It means that Krishna is separate from you. It is possible that you will lose your way. Hence, you should pray, “Krishna, please be with me always.” In fact, He is always in you. When you enquire deeply, you will experience this truth. It is impossible to be away from Him. 

Many devotees proclaim, “Oh God, I am in you, I am with you and I am for you.” They repeat these words like parrots, but do not say from the depths of their heart. Actually, God is never separate from you. Pray to Him wholeheartedly with the conviction that He is always in you, with you, above you, below you and around you. When you offer such a prayer to God, He will certainly redeem your life.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 38, Chapter 9

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

You have to struggle to ensure spiritual progress

Tiffs is a chance for service for which you must feel extremely delighted, for, here you can transmute your devotion and faith into positive acts of service for the benefit of your brothers and sisters. And, since I am with you in all that you do, you have no worry about the success of the undertakings. You have only to be 'instruments;' you need not devise devious ways or roundabout tactics. Doing your duties as members, you have the need to preserve and develop trust in Sai, too.

This is Sai work, which you are invited to enjoy. This is elevating work that brings you nearer to the heart of the Divine. When Naaraayana hastened to save the elephant front the jaws of the crocodile, the Bhaagavatha says, He did not take with Him the weapons---wheel or even the Lotus or the Conch. He went empty handed, as far as eye could discern. The conscious hand must have the inert pickaxe in order to break the hard sod; so too, the Divine Consciousness must have the Prakrithi (objective world or objective instrument) to carry out His plan.

You have the chance to contribute to the happiness and beatitude of thousands. In order to carry out this duty, you have yourselves to lead exemplary lives. Your nithya jeevitha (daily living) must be transformed into live prayers and live saadhana. How much struggle are you now going through for ensuring physical comfort! You have to struggle much more for ensuring mental peace and spiritual progress, for sathya jeevitha (life in truth).

Calculate within yourselves the benefit that would accrue to you from this saadhana into which you are initiated now, and prepare for shouldering the task assigned.

 - Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 12, Chapter 41