Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 1- Chapter 11
Summary: Nara will become the divine vehicle of Narayana if Nara acquires two qualities of Sathya and Prema.
Practise what you preach
Individual reconstruction is much more important than the construction of temples. Multiply virtues, not buildings; practise what you preach, that is the real pilgrimage; cleanse your minds of envy and malice, that is the real bath in holy waters.
Man is suffering today consequent to his own actions
Of what avail is the name of the Lord on the tongue if the heart within is impure.People have to set themselves right and correct their food, their recreation, their method of spending their leisure as well as habits of thought.
Three types of intellect
For understanding this ,the intellect has to be kept sharp and clear. There are 3 types of intellect – Thamas (inertia/sloth), which confuses truth with untruth and takes untruth as truth; Rajas (passion/activity)-which like a pendulum swings confused between the truth and untruth and can’t distinguish between them; Sathwa (Purity /serenity)-which knows which is truth and which is untruth.
Sense of Discrimination with Equanimous intellect is necessary to reach One’s goal.
The wisdom in hot chocolate ( Develop equal mindedness)
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Leading to Mukthi
Eat well so that your physical faculties and intelligence grow. Bhakti (devotion) will lead to Shakti(power); this will grant Yukthi(skill) ,which will lead to Rakthi ( help fix your attachment on proper objects) ,and this will finally lead you to Mukthi (liberation).
Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you .
Others are not separate from you
Instead of criticising others and finding faults with them(because of ego) ,look for your own faults , as faults in others is a reflection of your own personality traits. Pay no heed to little worries; attach your mind to the Lord. This will lead you to good company of people where your talents will be transmuted.
Be a bee, not a mosquito
Bee drinks and distributes nectar while a mosquito drinks blood and spreads disease.
Give up anger,envy,cynicism and falsehood.
Have Prema (love) in your heart. Believe that Love is God, Truth is God. Love is Truth ,Truth is Love.
Be grateful to parents . Parents ,as servants of God, must encourage children when they evince any interest in spiritual advance and study
Focus on the Atma
Not on the transitory body. Give up the delusion you are this physical body .
Develop Sathya (truth) and Prema(love)
You will receive everything without asking. Man (nara) and God(Narayana)are two wires-positive and negative which combine to bring electricity.
Premaarpan 