In plain words
There is no one to lay down that it must be this way or that. God's Prema enters every path. But worldly love has certain limits attached to it. You must keep limited love only within what is limited. The search for Satya. I said it yesterday. Why a search for Satya. I am reminding you once more. With these very eyes you have seen wife, child and mother. The eyes that see are one and the same. Yet you must use discrimination: whom to look at in what way. You must look at your mother with respect, with devotion to a mother, with that outlook. She is the mother-goddess. You must look upon her as equal to a goddess. That brings joy to the mother. You must look at your wife with desire. You must look at your child with tender affection. Tender affection brings the child joy. So today you must control your sight. Do not take this the wrong way. How do certain things begin today? You go to college. You go to a college. In college there is co-education. Women and men are both there. Joining is not wrong. But when is it not wrong? It is not wrong when both have mastered their senses. But today our senses are a breakless car. At such a time we must not join this co-education. At some moment or other our sight goes out. First it begins with a look. What began with a look grows with smiles. Growing with smiles, it will enter into talking. Then writing begins. Then friendship begins. At last it turns into a relationship. What is the cause of this relationship? The look itself.
That is why Sūrdās said, ‘Having eyes, they became blind, unable to behold Your auspicious form’: O God, everyone has eyes. But are they able to see You with those eyes? They can see every distortion. Their outlook is narrow. Only the eyes that behold Your vision are my eyes. There are ears. These ears listen to all the village gossip, but they make no effort to hear the story of God. How must our ears be? We must listen to what is good. We must hear sacred thoughts. We must hear of things by which the world's message goes forward finely, auspiciously, blessedly. He gave ears to hear these, not to hear village gossip. We must control our senses well. Only then will this feeling be set right.
That is why Jayadeva spoke. Jayadeva had great mastery of the senses. He had no thought but the thought of Kṛṣṇa. He was teaching his tongue good sense.
O tongue, knower of taste, lover of sweetness, I tell you what is true, good and supreme: repeat the sweet syllables, Govinda, Dāmodara, Mādhava.
O tongue who knows taste! O sacred tongue! Wondrous tongue! O marvellous tongue! I am telling you fine, sweet words. There are four sins the tongue commits. First of all, do not speak untruth. Do not hatefully use words of hatred against another. Fourth, do not talk too much. Through these four sins you have become a great sinner. To atone for all these sins, remember the Name: Govinda, Dāmodara, Mādhava.
Do nagarasaṅkīrtana
Why have we set up nagarasaṅkīrtana in the early hours of the morning? Did we set it up for lack of anything to do? Did we set it up so that you would get up early in the morning and spoil your sleep? No, no. It is very sacred physically, in worldly terms and spiritually. It is the time of Brahmamuhūrta. A cool place. A cool atmosphere. In that cool atmosphere our mind, having slept the whole night, is calm and at peace. If, the moment you get up, without hearing crazy words, without listening to anything coarse, you hear the Name remembered, Rāmā, Kṛṣṇā, Govindā, it brings great ease to the heart. Ease for the one who hears. He thinks, ‘The moment I got up at dawn, I heard the Name of God.’ The moment you get up at dawn, you must remember the Name of God. First of all, the moment you get up, your day must begin with remembering. For this purpose, what is the reason for setting up all these in the Sathya Sai organisations: nagarasaṅkīrtanas, bhajans, satsaṅgs, study circles? All these are only to sanctify time and bring Śānti to the heart. Where is Śānti? Seen physically, Śānti is in deep sleep. It is gained. Second, you gain Śānti when you are free of saṅkalpas.