By Our Staff Reporter
PUTTAPARTHI, NOV. 23. Sri Satya Sai Baba has
observed that today's man is losing faith in everything including in
himself and in the process losing peace of mind. He advised man to
redeem faith in himself and make an attempt to know the love and
divinity and in turn attain peace of mind.
In his discourse delivered in the Sai
Kulwanth Hall in Prashanti Nilayam here on Friday on the occasion of
his 76th birthday, Sri Saibaba called the man to develop spirit of
love and divinity and spread it to all. He said joy and sorrow were
not permanent but the man had to find his origin. Then alone he
would attain peace of mind.
If man had no faith in himself he would
never relish the life. That was why man must have faith in himself
always, Saibaba said. He wished happiness for all in the world. "Become
master of mind, then you are not affected by anything", he preached.
Stating that man was foolishly feeling low
whenever sorrow surrounded him, forgetting that the real joy lied
beneath the sorrow. "Fathom the sorrow with equal mindedness by
treating the joy and sorrow alike, then you will get the ultimate
happiness - love and divinity", Saibaba exhorted. Equal mindedness
was the wealth that man should aspire for and not the worldly
desires, he said.
Self-respect was the noblest properties of
man as it was uniform among all, irrespective of rich and poor, he
said. The man who had self-respect would respect others and get it
back from others, he noted. So, the man should develop self-respect
in order to respect others, he suggested.
Saibaba termed man's experience of comfort
and miseries as perversion of mind. It would happen due to dual
thinking. The bliss man could attain from sadness was greater than
what he would get from happiness, he said. "Invite problems every
now and then to experience the ultimate joy of love and divinity",
he advised. The bliss man could get from happiness was momentary but
from misery it would be permanent, he said. Divinity was nothing but
loving everybody, he proclaimed.
The happiness had no value without problems,
Saibaba stressed and said happiness and god were not separate. They
were always found in union. Emphasising that truth and god were
found everywhere, Saibaba said there was no difference between god
and man, if the latter attains divinity.
Saibaba preached three principles - fear of
sin, love for god and morality in life that would always bring man
closer to the almighty. He also hailed the Indian culture stating
that it would not stray with the passage of time. Earlier, before
coming to the dais he went round the Sai Kulwanth Hall and outside
it to greet and bless the devotees. He also inaugurated the "Radio
Sai Global Harmony, a digital radio network, by pressing a switch.
