You seem to think that I punish you,

When I take away from you, your worldly riches.

You think of Me being cruel,

When a loved one parts

And says goodbye by death.

But these are only My ways to reward you,

To redirect your goals,

To realize the insignificance of possessions,

To reduce and diminish your passions,

You call love!

I want to swivel you away from these addictions,

That leaves you helpless

In your eccentric fantasies.

Your only one true possession is “God”.

The riches of all worlds is within you -

To Love All, to Serve All!

 

From: Sai Darshan by Seema Dewan

 

October 08

 

Men are spinning cocoons for themselves.  They suffer because they can't come 
out of them into a world of light.  They are like the monkeys caught by the 
wandering beggar, dancing at the end of the rope and begging coins from those 
sitting around the ring.  Sankara said he would willingly offer the monkey 
(mind) to the Lord so that He may teach it tricks that will please Him and use 
it for getting alms for Himself.  That is to say, Sankara proposed to fill his 
mind with thoughts of God, so that the monkey would be tamed and made to serve 
God's purpose.  You too must make the mind the servant of God, not the slave of 
the senses. 

 

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 3, pg. 86

 

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