Sathya Sai Speaks 1956
Discourses of 1956: at Prasanthi Nilayam, for Guru Purnima.
Discourse 1God As Guide1 August 1956, Guru Purnima, Prasanthi Nilayam
- 1God is Supreme Energy (Mahasakthi) and the individual being is deluding power (mayasakthi); He is the genuine, the individual being is but the shadow,…
- 2The Lord cannot come down with His Supreme Energy unimpaired; He has to come with diminished splendour and limited effulgence, so that He can become t…
- 3The first step in spiritual discipline Of course, it is only at the end of a long and systematic process of spiritual practice that you will get fixed…
- 4Keep the faith in the Lord undiminished The greatest obstacle on the path of surrender is egoism and mineness or possessiveness. It is something that…
- 5But even the first step will be unsteady if you have no faith. So cultivate faith. Sathyabama once asked Krishna, “Why are you, doing things like ordi…
- 6One should depart the world with a smile Everyone has to make their exit some day. That moment should not be a moment of anguish; one should depart gr…
- 7Pray to the Lord to show you the way In order to bring conviction to you in all this, it is best you approach a guru (spiritual preceptor) who knows t…
- 8In the preliminary stages of spiritual discipline, name, form, and quality all have their part to play in the moulding of the spirit. The guru destroy…