You cannot experience one thing without sacrificing another. This is the law of the world

First feeling arises and becomes thought. The moment a thought appears, we should inquire and discriminate whether it is good or bad. We must cut bad thoughts before they are put into action; otherwise, we become victims of suffering.

When the presence of God is felt everywhere, the world and God merge to become one.

What is the use of liberation attained after death? Can one experience it after death? Who wants such liberation? I am experiencing the sweet nectar of Sai here and now. This is enough. Why should I bother whether I reach heaven after death? This bliss of Sai is supreme to any heavenly bliss.

As oil flows in a continuous stream, so too should we think about God continuously.

 

Feelings alone are the true form. Due to the form within, omniscience is emerging as wisdom. Yath Bhavam Tat Bhavathi…as I am always thinking about Swami, His omniscience comes out as wisdom. The experience of cosmic feelings becomes wisdom.

The same objects, which give us happiness in our youth, become like poison during old age. A life of sensual pleasure, forgetting God is like poison in the end.

This experience with Swami is coming as the Sathya Yuga. From the cosmic feelings  prajnana, wisdom and knowingness comes and everyone's prajnana emerges. This is the reason for the coming Sathya Yuga. Spiritual experience is giving the wisdom. My feeling is 'I want to experience God'. These one pointed feelings and this thirst opens the bindu and brings forth the New Creation.

Don’t find fault in others. Find the faults within yourself.

Turn all feelings and thoughts towards God. This is Sathya Bandha, the bond with Truth. It is the only eternal bond, the bond with wisdom.

Every moment we have to be aware of our behavior. We have to purify ourselves.

We should establish the feeling that our only friend is God; our only relation is the Lord. We must clearly know this and realize all else is Maya.

Yoga is union with God. It is thinking of God 24 hours of the day.

We can attain immortality only if we sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice; through sacrifice alone liberation is attained!

Attaining God is the only way to release ourselves from the disease of birth and death.

Our present lives are due to the impressions that we have accumulated in previous births. Whatever we earn in this life becomes the seed for our next birth. Attachment towards husband, wife, children, money, post, etc is the cause for birth. If a husband and wife have a very good loving relationship and desire to be together in the next birth also, they become bound to each other.

Our life is a dream. When we awake from this dream, we will realize that all is the divine play of the Lord.

How are we to live? It is in our hands, not God’s! We are born according to the merit and sin that we have accrued. All our relationships are false, Maya. They are perishable. If we attach ourselves to perishable relationships, we are pushed into the ocean of worldly life.

Unfulfilled desires are the cause for our birth again and again

It is feelings that are the cause for bondage. Feelings are the cause for birth. Our unfulfilled aspirations, desires and attachments continue in the next birth. There is a Tamil saying, ‘We are born to settle unfinished accounts’. Taking birth after birth, we wallow in the ocean of worldly life. Our thoughts and feelings become the deep impressions that decide our next birth.

Attain bliss by going with the flow. Let god conduct your life according to His will.

The highest dharma of man is to attain God. Only actions that are performed with this goal can be said to be dharmic. All else is adharma, unrighteousness.

All your actions, both good or bad, will be recorder in the karmic records

Who is Yama?

.... Though claimest immortality for thy spirit, immortality for imperfect man is dangerous.
Here Yama argues with Savithri and tells immortality is dangerous for the
imperfect man. This is the common law for all on earth. All declare in this way and in
doing so, train man's thinking from age to age. This is the law of the earth. Man is born,
grows, gets married, a lineage is created and then faces death. This is the nature of life
on earth. Man accepts this and never thinks beyond it to the Atma. Age after age, he
becomes enslaved by this habit. It was through slow contemplation that Stone Age man
found out how to live. Worldly life follows the same pattern. Does anyone think to
change this and go in a new way?
There is no Yama Loka; it is not a separate world. Each man writes his own
destiny. Our ancestors told of Yama deva and his assistant Chitragupta, recording all our
actions. Through this, the fear of sin was instilled in man. He was taught, ‘If you do
good, it will give heaven, bad leads to hell’. As they were told in this way, all were
prevented from performing evil actions. Yet, this is not truth. When you speak harsh
words to someone, these words becomes registered as your deep impressions. If you
have jealousy, this imprints there. If you argue it is the same. It is in this way, all is
registered within us as impressions. The good we do is also recorded there. Finally, it is
the good and bad done, which returns to us as destiny. It is this destiny that decides
where, when and how your next birth will be. Thus, it is the thoughts, words and deeds
of each one that writes destiny. Our death is also decided in this way. This is where and
how we will die. This could be a natural death, death through an accident, one taking
their own life, through suicide, killed by others. Heaven and hell are not after death,
both experienced here, while alive.

Your thoughts at the moment of death create the seeds for your next birth.

Our ancestors told stories of Yama deva and Yama Loka, in order to guide the
common man, so he could be redeemed from the world. Yet, in truth, it is not like this.
Yama and Yama Loka are in man’s hands only. Before, people lived in fear of hell and
sin. Now in this Kali, all casually commit sin. No one has any fear of sin. Man thinks that
old age man is funny, and has learned to live in this way. He has made many laws on
earth, dividing into clan, country and society. Yet, now he has even stopped living in this
way . In Kali Yuga, man has broken all laws and behaves in a bad and evil way. If anyone
speaks about the path of spirituality, he does not accept it. Thus, Yamadharma warns
Savithri,

... Obey the earthly laws.

If one person goes in search of Atma and does not receive any encouragement
and is instead threatened, this is called Yama. In Kathopanishad, it tells of Nachiketha,
who like Savithri goes to Yama loka and argues with Yama. The boy asked for Atma
Vidya, but Yama showed him many other things instead. He tells the boy to forget Atma
Vidya and promises to give him a great kingdom on earth and in the heavens the
Apsaras will become his servants. Yama argues in this way with him. Yet, Nachiketha
says that he does not want anything other than Atma Vidya. All is told in the form of a
story. It is in this way that those who discovered the truths of the Upanishads, wrote all
in the form of stories.

The love of a devotee, which is focused on God expands to become God. Love is God. God is love.

Put me through fire 

Torture me in hell 

Or even more horrendous tests 

I shall not waver 

From my path 

Of seeking liberation 

For humans and demons And also for animals and pests!

Like the candle which sacrifices itself to give light, spread your Prema to all in the world.

The touch feeling that arises at the time birth stays with us till death. If you direct it towards God, it will be transformed into Prema feelings. When these feelings of Prema transform into wisdom and touch the Lord, Truth is born. I purified myself with continuous sadhana. In the state of Pure Consciousness, I merged in Swami, Pure Consciousness. This is verily touch feeling, this is the meaning of touching God.

Love for God alone is Prema. Everything else is attachment.

We experience infinite peace when the saints and sages bless us touching our head. This is the reason why we touch the feet of great souls. Through their touch, the power of their penance is transferred as a blessing to us.

Love and more love… do not hurt others.

We must live pure lives sacrificing all. We should offer every sense, the mind, intellect and body to the Lord keeping nothing for ourselves. This is how we can touch the Lord. This is the meaning of touching Truth. To touch Truth, we should become Truth.

Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, turn the task you are undertaking into an act of worship.

In this world drama, how many births? How many sorrows? How many downfalls? Happiness and sorrows come one after the other. In this play, we are like a pair of dice being thrown. Enough, enough! How long can we live like this? When will it end? Everyone must begin thinking like this. From birth until now, how much we have suffered in this world. Why does this mind continuously roam again and again in this worldly life. The camel eats thorny bushes bleeds as a result. It is the same in our life. We are 'bleeding from eating the thorny bushes'. So, begin by contemplating how we can escape from this? What is our refuge? We must realize that love alone exists everywhere. God is not across the seven seas or across the seven hills. God is here - in front of us, behind us, above and below us. He is everywhere in the form of Love. God is Love. He expands as love in everyone and in everything. One who realizes this, will realize the truth. If we know this, then we become it and it becomes us. We melt ourselves from within. How easily Swami is telling this.

Speak sweetly, treat sweetly… from the heart, not from the mouth.

We must live pure lives sacrificing all. We should offer every sense, the mind, intellect and body to the Lord keeping nothing for ourselves. This is how we can touch the Lord. This is the meaning of touching Truth. To touch Truth, we should become Truth. 

Show your love to all but do not show too much affection towards any one person.

Prema does not know shame. It cannot be controlled by anything or anyone. It is not dependent on anything. It is ever free.

Life is as feelings are.

Prema feelings for God cloak the five senses and we realize that all other feelings are false – feelings for God alone are true.

Love is the path to attain God.

When we attain this body of Prema and touch the Prema body of God with wisdom, Truth is born. This is eternal bliss, true bliss, great bliss!

First the feeling arise, then the thought. We should discriminate before we take action. Think, is it good? Will it help me to attain God?

The root of all feelings is the sense of touch. The basis for touch feeling is the body and the body is the results of birth.

All that keeps you away from God is maya, illusion.

You should direct all feelings towards God. These will bestow good fruits. These feelings alone will liberate you.

One’s every thought, word and deed should reflect the God in him.

As thoughts arise, we can discriminate whether they are good or bad, but feelings cannot be comprehended in this way. Feelings burst forth spontaneously from within and cannot be hindered or tempered.

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Karma will not affect the one who is free from self-interest and expectation.

From the book "The Principle of Becoming God"

A two month old baby knows the difference between his mother’s touch and another’s. He feels comfort and protection only when he is in his mother’s arms. These feelings are very subtle and are the first expressions of a newborn. Even as a newborn, he knows intuitively where he is safe.

At the time of creation, God bestows the jeeva with feelings. From my birth till now, I only feel secure and comfortable with Swami. My feelings for Swami are the same as a newborn has for its mother. As I feel that I will get security and comfort only from Him, my Prema intensifies. How is it so? It is because I have realized that He alone is permanent, He is the Truth. Swami alone is True, all else is Maya and perishable. Everything is illusion; there is no happiness, no security in this temporary world. I have realized that Swami only is Truth.

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The mind will always focus on the negative. Make it positive and say… “I love all.”

From the book "The Principle of Becoming God"

‘Do not perform any covert action’.

I followed this advice in my life and taught it to my children. No actions should be performed in secret. We should not have any secrets. One should have this purity even in thought; nothing should lay hidden in the mind. As I have practiced this discipline, it has become my very nature.

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Keep chanting God’s name. Even if it is mechanical in the beginning, feelings will come.

From the book "The Principle of Becoming God"

‘Root of all feelings is the sense of touch. The basis for touch feeling is the body and the body results from birth...’

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When man realizes that the peace he gets from worldly objects is not real and tries to find the source of real peace, then begins his spiritual journey.

From the book "The Principle of Becoming God"

As you think so you become. When we connect our feelings with relations, wealth, job, position, house, etc., we are trapped in a web of our own making. Our feelings and emotions directed towards God can be expressed through the nine paths of devotion. One can attain the highest state through devotion. It releases one from the cycle of birth and death. Attaining God through devotion ends the spiritual journey.

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Sacrifice what you think is your duty. Your duty is to attain God

Stages of Divinity

The 12 Vinayakas

Twelfth Vinayaka

This Ganesha lies on top of the Peepul leaf. He appears to be very small. This is the form of Swami which lay in hospital. He lay down in order to stop the Pralaya. This greatest of Avatars has come only for this! He has sacrificed Himself. How much He has done for humanity over the last 84 years. Finally, when the Pralaya came, He destroyed Himself to save the world from dissolution

Every second we are alive is an opportunity to be with God.

Stages of Divinity

The 12 Vinayakas

Eleventh Vinayaka

This Sai Ganesha is around 80 years old and is a very lean figure. He is seen sitting on a chair. His legs have been put together. There is no crown on His head, but an aura of light. His eyes appear to be only seeing half. Swami seems to be suffering. Where has Your majesty gone Swami? You used to walk at a running pace! Who has tied Your legs to Your chair? Wheere is Your crown and smiling face? Where has Your healthy body gone? (I cannot write...I'm crying) Where is Your voice? It is You who has commanded me to write. The thoughts, which I had forgotten, are now coming to my mind once more.