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Discourse 1Life is fulfilled only when every action is done to please God7 January 1988, Dharma Prachaar Parishad, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 2The Dharma of the Ātma is svadharma8 January 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 3God in the heart, work in the hands9 January 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 4Strive to recognise the oneness within the many!14 January 1988, Sports Meet, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 5The Five D's16 January 1988, Sports Meet, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 6The certificate to be won in life is the grace of God!21 January 1988, AnantapurDiscourse 7Through selfless sevā, humanness attains divinity15 February 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 8Humanness is itself the embodiment of consciousness!16 February 1988, Mahāśivarātri, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 9The mansion of life rests on four walls: birth, karma, Dharma and Brahman21 February 1988, Students of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 10The Eye of Wisdom6 March 1988Discourse 11One who would live in happiness and Śānti must practise control of the senses13 March 1988, BrindavanDiscourse 12True happiness comes only when man's vision turns towards the Paramātma18 March 1988, Ugādi, BombayDiscourse 13No Learning Greater than Prema19 March 1988Discourse 14Bhārat is the home of Satya and Dharma20 March 1988, BombayDiscourse 15To follow the path of Rāma: the inner meaning of the Rāmāyaṇa26 March 1988, Rāma Navamī, BrindavanDiscourse 16Seek Ye First16 April 1988, Discourse to the students of the Sathya Sai Institute at Nandanavanam, OotyDiscourse 17Never Forsake the Land of Your Birth or the Mother Who Bore You18 April 1988Discourse 18Brahmacarya Is Moving Everywhere with the Feeling of Brahman23 April 1988Discourse 19The Land That Loves God Is Bhārata28 April 1988Discourse 20One Who Cannot Understand Man Cannot Know Mādhava29 April 1988Discourse 21Merging the Mind in the Ātma Is the Rāma Principle30 April 1988Discourse 22Humanness Is the United Form of Mind, Word and Deed2 May 1988Discourse 23All Good Qualities Are Contained in Bhakti3 May 1988Discourse 24The Consciousness Called Divinity Fills Everything4 May 1988Discourse 25Recognise the One in the many!6 May 1988, KodaikanalDiscourse 26The essence of all religions is Satya and Prema!29 May 1988, BrindavanDiscourse 27You yourselves are embodiments of God!20 June 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 28To shape man into one broad of heart is the fulfilment of education23 June 1988, the opening of the new academic year of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 29Excessive desire is the loss of reason; measured desire is great ease26 June 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 30Bhaktha Sakhaa Bhagavan!July 1988, BrindavanDiscourse 31Divinity forgotten: that is the state of the jīva7 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 32All creation is nothing but an assembly of atoms!8 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 33To be happy here, hematāraka vidyā; to be happy hereafter, Brahma vidyā10 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 34Through Sacrifice Comes the Divinity Called Immortality11 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 35Prakṛti itself is the direct proof of God's existence12 July 1988Discourse 36Only when man changes will the world change17 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 37All learning without practice is useless20 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 38The principle of the Ātma in everyone is one and the same!23 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 39Creation is nothing but the expression of Īśvara's will!29 July 1988, Guru Pūrṇimā, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 40Sacrifice itself is the true yoga30 July 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 41Only when the individual is virtuous does society take shape as a virtuous society7 August 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 42In hardships and in pains, strive to turn the mind another way!26 August 1988, Onam, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 43The body itself is a temple!3 September 1988, Kṛṣṇa Jayanti (Gokulāṣṭamī), Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 44God's descent is only to make Prema grow15 September 1988, Gaṇeśa Caturthī, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 45Brahman Itself Is the Root Power of the World!2 October 1988, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 46How Can One Not Blessed with a Mother's Prema Gain the Prema of God?14 October 1988, Dasara, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 47All Things and All Beings in the World Are Forms of the Paramātma!15 October 1988, Dasara, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 48The Light of the Name Alone Is the Radiant Power That Dispels Ajñāna and Darkness16 October 1988, Dasara, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 49To Attain God, the Embodiment of Prema, We Must Make Prema Itself Our Support17 October 1988, Dasara, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 50Believe That God Alone Is the True Friend, and Try to Follow Him!18 October 1988, Dasara, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 51The Chief Goal of Man Is Bhakti for God Itself!19 October 1988, Dasara, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 52Make Your Life Worthwhile in Nāma-saṅkīrtana!20 October 1988, Dasara (Vijayadaśamī), Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 53To Slay the Demonic in Man Is the Inner Meaning of Narakāsura's Slaying9 November 1988, Dīpāvali, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 54Karma Is Done Only for Purity of Citta!21 November 1988, Sathya Sai Seva Organisations (Birthday week), Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 55Culture Is What Shows Forth the Oneness within the Many22 November 1988, Seventh Convocation of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 56Tormenting the Living Being and Worshipping God Is Not Right23 November 1988, Sixty-third Birthday, Prasanthi NilayamDiscourse 57Names and Forms May Differ, but Saccidānanda Is One!25 December 1988, Christmas, Prasanthi Nilayam