SATHYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM

Words of Bhagavân S'rî Sathya Sai Baba taken from this Biography. He is the sub-stratum, the substance; the separate and the sum, the Sath; the SATHYAM He is the awareness, the activity, the consciousness, feeling, the willing and the doing, the chith; the SIVAM He is the light, the splendor, the harmony, the melody, the Ananda; the SUNDARAM "My Mission is to grant you courage and joy, to drive away weakness and fear. Do not condemn yourselves as sinners; sin is a misnomer for what are really errors, provided you repent sincerely and resolve not to follow evil again. Pray to the Lord to give you the strength to overcome the habits which had enticed you when you were ignorant." "Worry, greed and needless agitation and anxiety, these cause even bodily disease. Mental weakness is the biggest cause of disease. Dis-ease is a want of ease; the contented mind is the best drug." "Be good, be joyful, be bold, be honest, be temperate, be patient. These are the rules of good health." "I refuse to call anyone an athiest or an unbeliever, for all are the Creations of the Lord and repositories of the Grace. In everyone's heart there is a spring of love, a rock of truth. That love is God, that truth is God. Divinity is there in the depths of everyone's inner being." "The Lord is above and beyond all limits of caste and color, of wealth and poverty; it is foolish to believe that the Lord asks for this gift or is angry when it is not offered." "I have come to guide and bless those who undergo the discipline and practice leading to divine union. I am neither man nor woman, old or young, I am all these." "Do not praise Me. I like you to approach Me without fear, as a right. You do not extol your father. You ask for something from him, as a right, is that not so?" "You may be seeing Me today for the first time, but you are all old acquaintances for Me. I know you through and through. My task is the spiritual regeneration of humanity through truth and love. If you approach one step nearer to Me, I shall advance three steps towards you." "I am happiest when a person carrying a heavy load of misery comes to Me, for he is most in need of what I have." "It is not mentioned anywhere that the grace of God is available only for certain classes or races or grades of people. From the smallest to the biggest all are entitled to it. The Lord is everywhere, everything." "The world can achieve prosperity and peace only through such persons whose hearts are pure and whose minds are free of prejudice and passion, lust and greed, anger and envy." "I have not started the work for which I have come for I am still in the stage of preliminary reconnaissance. When I start my campaign the whole world will know of it and benefit by it." "Whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the right, I am born from age to age."  The Gîtâ‚ - Fourth Chapter.  (verses 7&8)    | Next | Bhajans These verses in the Bhagavad Gîtâ, sanskrit, word for word and translation:   yadâ yadâ hi dharmasya glânir bhavati bhârata abhyutthânam adharmasya tadâtmânam srijâmyaham yadâ yadâ -- whenever and wherever; hi -- certainly; dharmasya -- of religion; glânih -- discrepancies; bhavati -- become manifested; bhârata -- O descendant of Bharata; abhyutthânam -- predominance; adharmasya -- of irreligion; tadâ -- at that time; âtmânam -- self; srijâmi -- manifest; aham -- I. Whenever and wherever it is sure that one weakens in righteousness and a predominance of injustice does manifest, o descendant of Bhârata, at that time I do manifest Myself. paritrânâya sâdhûnâm vinâs'âya ca dushkritâm dharma-samsthâpanârthâya sambhavâmi yuge yuge paritrânâya -- for the deliverance; sâdhûnâm -- of the devotees; vinâsâya -- for the annihilation; ca -- and; dushkritâm -- of the miscreants; dharma -- principles of religion; samsthâpana-arthâya -- to reestablish; sambhavâmi -- I do appear; yuge -- millennium; yuge -- after millennium. To liberate the seekers of truth, to take the power away from the wicked ones and to reestablish the way of the human principles I do appear age after age. | Next | Bhajans Search: Sathyam Sivam Sundaram     Site search Web search Sathyam Sivam Sundaram Gallery [All the photo's of Bhagavân S'rî Sathya Sai Baba]  * Some of the pictures in SSS are taken from "A Journey to Shanti", a pictorial book by Sylvio Tabet.   Written by N. Kasturi M.A., B.L.