Sathya Sai Speaks: Volume 1- Chapter 10
Summary: Discrimination and Detachment- the two wings leading to Bliss.
Nature of Man
Man is Divine. He is here on a holy mission – a divine purpose. Man’s true nature is Peace(Shanti). Restlessness is an unnatural state. The accumulation of riches, maintenance of health, mastery of knowledge, and cultivation of arts will not guarantee Peace.
For peace, one must speak Less, speak sweet
Avoid arguments and disputes and practice moderation in speech. It will help develop a love (prema) as most misunderstandings arise out of carelessly spoken words.
When the foot slips, the wound can be healed, but when the tongue slips, the wound it causes in the heart of another will fester for life.
The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood, scandalising, finding fault with others, and excessive articulation. These have to be avoided if there has to be peace (shanti) for the individual as well as for society.
An anecdote about speaking lovingly:
Silence is the language of the realised
This is why it was prescribed as a vow for spiritual aspirants by the spiritual texts. You are all spiritual aspirants at various stages of the road, so this discipline is valuable for you also.
Prema must transform all relationships
Social, economic, educational, professional, family, religious, legal, and others.
The father must love the child a little more intensely and intelligently; the mother must spread love to all who come within her influence; children must love the servants.
The sense of equality that everyone is the repository of the divine essence must transmute social and individual behaviour.
An anecdote about acceptance and unconditional love.
God is an embodiment of divine love (Premaswarupa)
The Grace of the Lord is always flowing like the electric current through the wire. Fix a bulb, and the current, to the extent of the wattage, will illumine your home. The bulb is the spiritual exercises you perform; the home is your heart.
Come to Me gladly; dive into the sea and discover its depth; there is no use dipping near the shore and swearing that the sea is shallow and has no pearls. Dive deep and you will secure your desire.
Yet again, Prema and the senses have to be rigorously controlled by discrimination and detachment, the twin talents given exclusively to humans.
Discrimination instructs you how to choose your avocations and your associates. It tells you the relative importance of objects and ideals.
An anecdote about discrimination.
Detachment saves you from too much attachment and injects a sense of relief, at times of elation or despair.
An anecdote about wisdom and detachment.
Discrimination and detachment are the two wings that lift the bird into the air. They hold before you the impermanence of the world and the permanence of the Bliss of Reality.
They prompt you to direct your lives toward spiritual disciplines and the never failing contemplation of the glory of the Lord.
Premaarpan 