Conclusion: Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:What Can I Do for You, Lord?

Be like a beacon in the sky, radiating love and light, that is what you can do for Swami. Do not worry about what other people think of you or try to please them. If you radiate love and light, all problems, great and small, will simply dissolve. It is the best solution for all your problems. Do not get angry or upset, that means giving in to negative forces. When unpleasantness is directed against you, return love and light for nothing can stand up when confronted by pure love and light.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Saiday

Why do you gather here for My birthday, dear children? Is it to see the light? Some of you have seen the light; others are aware that the light exists and now they must find it and follow the only path that will lead them back to divinity and the ultimate merging of the soul with the Lord. I am that light and I am everywhere. I am here as you read these words. Just pause for a few moments and try to feel and experience My omnipresence.


This is the secret, the mystery of life; to experience the omnipresence of the Lord, for it brings with it the opening to a new life, that is, a life in the infinite presence of the Lord. In that state the Lord takes care of you and your whole life. It is the choice of a life in isolation and obscurity, or life in the everlasting presence of the Lord. You have that choice and only you can bring about the change.


Meditate on these thoughts, talk to the Lord at every opportunity during the day, and then He will come to you. Become aware of His presence everywhere, in everyone and everything, and the fact that in reality there is only God. All other thoughts are a form of illusion.


Love is the path to God for true love is God. Bring love into your lives, love one another and then you will prepare the way for God to walk beside you on that long journey that leads back to the divine state.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:The Unity of God's Way

Co-operation results from an expanding heart. Where there is none, it is due to a failure to open the heart, and it means that the animal instincts remain in the ascendant. Thus, the ego remains strong, and with it desire. Against such a background, the will to co-operate does not come easily.

Look at your own Sai organisation. Why is it unsatisfactory? There are factions here, factions there. Half of them do not rally know what they want, except only that they do not wish to co-operate. It is a form of protest and shows the true state of their souls. But one must try to help them, find out what they want and try to bring them back into the fold to be part of the whole.


I have said many times there is no unity in your country and it is so. All these cliques, petty squabbles, even among people in high positions. No one seems to have reached a full understanding of My message and few people reflect the love which I have showered upon them. They are separated, isolated, and they try to continue their own lives along the same old lines, but this will lead them nowhere. Even those who visit Me are little better. They come, they go, but what happens? They simply return to their old habits and their old way of life and make no real effort to put My teachings into practice.


But change will come. The day of awakening is not so far away and when it comes there will be a revelation of the true power of God, a manifestation of the omnipresence of the Lord. This will be the signal for a great move forward and the weeding out of those who are not ready to accept the challenge of the moment. It will be just so, mark My words. But few will listen, very few.


After the storm there will be a new beginning and the atmosphere will be completely different. It will be like a new age, the age of love, harmony and co-operation replacing the age of war, fighting, hatred, jealousy, greed and all those negative aspects of life. Everyone should prepare NOW for this change, for I promise you that it will come, and only those who are ready will survive.


I have given the warning, I have given My message a thousand times and no one who hears My words can claim ignorance. Do not delay action to put right your own life style and to change it to the way of God. There is no other way.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:The Night of Shiva's Moon

What is Shivaratri? It is the opening up of fresh thoughts in preparation for the year ahead. These occasions should be ones of deep meditation, an opportunity to look deep inside yourselves, to look at the real position within, the state of your soul and its progress on the spiritual path. It is a time of decision, a time and opportunity for a new move forward onto a better path. That is what I ask each one of you to do every day!


You sit, you listen, you read My teachings. What is the good, unless you put these teachings into practise?


I watch every movement, every thought, every action of yours. You should do the same and constantly ask yourselves if these thoughts and actions are based on the teachings of the Lord. They are not! But today is yet another day of opportunity, a chance to make that new start on the only path that can lead to true divinity and eventual liberation from the chains that bind you to constant rebirth in the physical body. Those chains are desire, unfulfilled desire, desire for all that is transient, unnecessary and unfulfilling.


Man must overcome desire and turn to love because, if you fill your heart with the love of God, your desire for material things and sensual pleasures will slowly fall away.


I am always with you, always there to help and guide, but only you can take the decision to change your own way of life and break those habits that lead you astray.


Life spiritual is God. Life material is illusion.


Make the choice today to see the light and live your life from now on in perfect harmony with the Lord.


Liberation may take time to achieve, but peace will come to your minds as soon as you put your feet, and your heart, on the true spiritual path.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:The Divine Spring

It is good that you spread the word of the Lord, for now is the time of awakening for your planet and all those who reside there. The days of darkness are drawing to a close and the shadows lengthening until they disappear, to be replaced by brilliant sunshine, so strong that it will cleanse the planet and leave it ready for a new golden era.

Some are ready, some are not. Those who are ready will be drawn to the Sai groups that will be formed all over the world. They will spring up naturally because I will call the people and organise them, even though they may think they are doing it themselves.

There will be many wondrous signs to show the presence of the Lord in all these plans and developments.

You all have important parts to play, so simply continue as you are doing, and let the flowers spring up all around you. I am in every one of those flowers for I am the light and will show you the way.

God does not reveal all His plans in advance, the mystery of the Lord will always remain.

Fear not, my children, all will be well. Love and light will replace the darkness and a new era will be upon you very soon.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Presence of God

Swami is omnipresent and is here with you now. Omnipresence is something which may be difficult for some of you to understand, but it means that I am with each one of you all the time, every movement of your lives, hence I know every thought you have ever had. Few of you bother to make use of this omnipresence or are even aware of it. If you can learn to bring me into your lives, then slowly, you will begin to reap the benefits from an awareness of the God within.


You spend so much of your time worrying about petty problems, but most of these are here today and gone tomorrow. What is their importance in the eternal life? Offer your problems to Me and see what a difference it makes when you bring Me into your lives. Have no fear of life, for it is like a playground where you gain certain experiences. Use this time to prepare yourselves for the eternal life that lies ahead. As I have often said, "Why fear when I am here?".


Remember the teachings of Christ, for these same teachings are what I am teaching today. Remember above all things that God is love and learn to love one another. Remember what I told you the other day, when you asked how you could help Swami. BE LIKE A BEACON IN THE SKY, RADIATING LOVE AND LIGHT. These remarks apply to all of you.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Peace

Glorious is life in the presence of the Lord. All earthly thoughts merge with the divine ad all worries dissolve, for the Lord has no worries. Then the sun shines incessantly as a glowing flame within the heart and illumines the whole being and the world around.


Can you imagine a whole crowd of people, all perfectly attuned to divinity, all glowing within and without? It is a state of ecstasy when you can truly say I AM.


Love must flow incessantly for love is the life force, the sustainer of the whole universe.


What problems can possibly remain if you follow the teachings of the Lord?


Contemplate these thoughts and try to follow in the divine footsteps until you and God are one. Then peace, happiness, tranquility and contentment will replace the worries of daily life; and all doubts and fears will cease to be.

Vol.1 Part.2 - Other Themes:Omnipresence of God

My child, I reside in the heart of man and at this moment, I give you this message. It is a message of love, a manifestation of the divinity that pervades the universe.


God is here, God is there, God is everywhere, God is in all and in everything.


If this is true, and it is true, there should be perfect unity and harmony throughout the universe. But on earth it is not so. Why is that? Why is love absent? Why is there so little unity and harmony?


It is because I have created man with free will, and man has chosen to play out a life separated, as far as he can be, from God, even though God still resides in his heart.


This is God's game, life on earth with that freedom of will, an exercise to demonstrate that there is only God and that life without God is not only illusion but completely barren.


It is a game, but it has a deep purpose, and one day man will be reawakened and the game will come to an end. That awakening is happening now and many will find the way back to God, that is living in perfect harmony with God, knowing that in truth there is only God and that all is God.


It is through the experience of illusion that man becomes awakened and the whole process is part of God's plan for evolution.


Never doubt the truth of what I tell you. Remember the words of God, remember the name of God, remember that God is love, then peace and harmony will return to your life.

Vol.1 Part.2 - Other Themes:Loving God

These meetings (of Sai groups) are a gathering of like minds, occasions when the love of God can flow freely and cleanse the atmosphere all around you.


It is the thought process that matters. When you meet together, all is positive, all are in tune, vibrations of love are created and it is these vibrations that affect the surroundings.


Progress in these Sai groups has been encouraging and it is the best way to spread the word of Sai in the western world. People will be drawn to these groups when they're ready and others will be guided towards them after much searching.


Man searches for God and those who eventually find God do so through their own awakening and the realisation that God dwells within. For within and without, all is God. He is omnipresent, here, there and everywhere, and yet, man can spend a whole lifetime searching for God, even in the Himalayas, yet God is there beside him, within him, around him all the time.


Even when you find God dwelling your heart, the discovery alone leads you nowhere unless you establish a relationship with Him, a relationship which leads to the realisation that you and He are one. "I am you, you are Me, all one, all God." Those are words which you have heard from the lips of the Sai Avatar. Those words were not spoken without purpose and you should dwell on them and let the whole world become aware of the fundamental truth.


Live in love, live in God, live with God, live with the certain knowledge that you and God are one, all part of the whole, for God is everyone, everywhere, only then can you throw away the cares of the world and find peace, harmony and tranquility. For without these qualities it will be difficult to make any real progress on the spiritual path.


Love one another, that is the starting point of every spiritual journey.

Vol.1 Part.2 - Other Themes:Holy Day

This is a time of great celebration, for you are celebrating the birth of Christ, or the Christed One. This is, indeed, a divine day and a divine occasion. It is also an important day for each oe of you as, on this auspicious day, you should examine yourself to see what point you have reached on the long road that leads to divinity.


Celebrations are good, but the best celebration will take place when you realise your inherent divinity and live your life manifesting as a truly divine soul or being. There are very few people on earth who can claim to be doing this. Why is that? It results from the temptations all around you and the constant desire of the lower aspects of man. You must learn to overcome these weaknesses, remembering that they are there for a purpose. It is the experience of the lower aspects, and the ultimate realisation of the utter impossibility of achieving peace of mind through attachment to such things, that eventually leads man out of the wilderness and onto the spiritual path.


Over and over again, I tell you these things because it is only through constant repetition that My message will be understood. Only My teachings can bring about the changes in man and lead him from a state of misery to ultimate bliss. It is a long and arduous path, but all will reach the destination in the end. So, examine your lives on this auspicious day and start to bring about the changes which you know within are essential for your future progress and happiness. Throw off those chains that bind you and break away for ever from the past and the failures that accompanied it.


I come to awaken the hearts of men and to help them realise the divinity ithin. It is there, it is there, within you now, if only you could know it. Live in that divine state NOW and give up for ever all attachment and earthly desires. That will truly make Me very happy.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Guru Purnima

Love is the starting point of all activity. Love is the foundation of the universe. Without love, life is barren and without purpose. All of you know this, but how many of you really start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love? Love is effervescent, like the sparkling waves of the ocean. Love brightens up everything around you. Nothing, not even evil, can stand up in the face of pure love. So, you have in your hands, the solution to many problems, just love and surrender.


This is an important day for all of you and for Me, for I am the source of that love and I am always pouring it out in an endless stream. Today, we all draw close together, so let everyone pour out that same love that I have showered upon each of you. That love can heal and cement the relationships between everyone and especially between all members of the Sai family. It will help to eliminate all thoughts of discord or jealousy, and indeed, all negative thoughts.



I send you My blessings. Go out into the world and put My teachings into practice. Fill the world with love, My love, for without My love the world would cease to be.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Healing

I am the Lord, I am you, I am the sick woman who comes to you for healing.

What are these physical symptoms from which she is suffering? They are a manifestation of separation, that is the failure of the senses to be in total harmony with the God within. It is due to many causes and only you, the person, can take the steps to correct this problem, but it is not as difficult as you may think.

Once you know that all is God and there is only God, how can you continue to fear, whether it be fear of death, or failure in some worldly sense. All these things are transient including your present life on earth. So rise up to the certain knowledge that you are God, and then, what can there be to fear? God has no fear.

I will help, I will guide, and she will heal herself.

Periods of quietness to contemplate the God force are essential in these cases because only by releasing that force and allowing it to manifest in your life can peace and harmony be restored to your body and soul. It means achieving perfect harmony at all levels of consciousness.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Spiritual Education

The world evolves through an unfolding and understanding of the truth and those teachers who are here today can play a part in that important process. But all teachers must first examine themselves and consider whether they are setting an example to others by their own behaviour. The end of education is character as well as knowledge, and it is character that will carry you forward along the spiritual path.

You are gathered here to listen to the message of another Teacher, the Divine Avatar, who has come into the world to save man from death and destruction, the path which man has chosen during past centuries. The transformation from the state of chaos to a spiritual one can only be achieved through education, and it is spiritual education that is the key.

So, I teach the truth in a language that anyone can understand: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-Violence, the corner stones of the new society which I have come to establish all over the world. All of you here today can play a part in this plan. It is up to you to take that great step forward, or continue in the wilderness, where so many people spend their lives on the earth plane, pursuing paths motivated by every aspect of desire, leading to greed, jealousy, anger and so many negative states. In such a life, man remains full of ego, thinks only about himself and his personal needs and pleasure.

My children, cast aside all such thoughts and take a great step forward today, out of the wilderness and back into the light. Start on the spiritual path which will lead you back to true happiness and a true understanding of what you really are.

All knowledge is within you now. As you change to the spiritual path, a new awakening will come to you and eventually the light will shine from within. That light is the spark of God which dwells within the heart of each one of you. Love is the source of that spark and love is the motivating force in life.

Learn to love, to love one another, and gain the understanding that you are all part of the whole, all children of the same God.

No one can claim to be a teacher until he has purified his own soul. That is the first lesson for any teacher. So study the teachings which I offer you. Then, if you put those teachings into practice, you can indeed become teachers qualified to teach others less fortunate than you in this troubled world.

I am always there, watching and waiting, and I am always ready to help when you call Me and the call is from the heart.

I send My love to each one of you on the occasion of this birthday celebration , for this birthday will be your birthday if only you can understand the message and begin a new life on the true spiritual path.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Eswaramma

This is the day of the Mother and the children. And I am the Mother of each one of you and all creation. I watch over each one of you like the shepherd watching over his flock. I observe every movement, every action, every thought and, in subtle ways, I try to help you along the path. That is the duty of the mother to bring up the children and to guide and help them as they grow up.


Where are you on that path of growing up and evolving spiritually? For that is what life is all about. Your Mother is still there, for that is Me, and I continue to watch over you with constant vigilance.


When you realize this, you should consider your own position and your responsibility in life as you grow up. Watch your words, watch your actions, watch your thoughts, watch your conscience and watch your heart. Watch all these things and try to take some definite action to improve your way of life, so that you prepare yourself for the future and shorten the journey that leads back to the Godhead.


No one can do this for you. Wiser souls can teach and guide you but, in the end, only you can take the decisions and actions to rectify the errors of the past and the present, and so prepare the way for the future.


I will always be there and will help and guide those who make the effort. But the first move must be made by you.


Start today and see how the results flow. Joy, harmony and love will become part of your life as you move along the spiritual path and leave behind the maya (illusion) of the material world and all the desires that go with it. That is what holds you back and bogs you down in a quagmire of never ending insatiable desire.


Make the decision today to cut those ties with the past, all those bad habits, and them move forward into a brighter world and a brighter, happier future, where love shines all around you like the warm days of the sun. I will always be there waiting for you as I love you all so much.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Festivals and Holy Days

Why do you have festival celebrations during the year? It is an opportunity to awaken the mind of man and take his mind away from material matters and the affairs of the world. That is the true significance.


So, all festivals are for the benefit of man, not for the benefit of saints or others whose names are connected with these festivals, for they have found their own salvation.


Today should be a festival day, and tomorrow and every other day of the year. It should be your festival, the occasion when you turn to the Lord and light the candle within your own heart to illuminate your whole being, so that you may see clearly the path that leads back to God.


There is no other way, no other path, and that is why I tell you so often to open your hearts, let the love flow, and live in total harmony with God and the universe which He has created. That way you will rise up to the higher levels of consciousness, where you and God really manifest as one. This is the true state of unity and divinity, the complete merging of the soul with God. That is the end of the long path which you are treading at present.


Awaken, My children, listen to the voice of God. Let His love light up your soul and then you will see the light and hasten your journey along the path. It is within the grasp of all of you and it is only you and your material attitude to life that prevents real progress along the path.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Are You Progressing?

Birthdays are days when you celebrate an aspect of creation, in this case, the birth of the Sai Avatar.


On this auspicious day you should concentrate on that form, the Sai Avatar, and contemplate exactly how you relate to Him at the present moment.


Some of you are new devotees, some have been devotees for many years, but all are My children. All are on the same path and you will only find that path through the Sai Avatar and the teachings which are now so well known.


Look back and consider what changes have taken place in your life since you found Me. Have you really changed and does your present way of life reflect an understanding of who you really are? Is the process of change continuing day by day and are you drawing closer to Me as each day passes?


Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-Violence are what I teach, and service to fellow man, which must follow as the heart opens and you begin to treat and see others as yourself, all one, all God. So, My birthday should be a day of celebration and contemplation, the latter being more important.


I have said many times that My life is My message and you too should be able to say the same thing, that your life is your message. But you can only say this when you really live your life according to My teachings and abandon for ever more those had habits of the past.


Let your lives be so full of love that you can be seen to be what you really are, all of you, children of the living God and beacon of Sai love and light.


It is this outpouring of Sai love and light, My love, that can save the world and bring back peeace and harmony to the people in so many troubled lands.


You are the instruments and I have given each one of you the golden opportunity to work for Sai and humanity. Do not throw away that opportunity.

(Birthday Message November 1984)

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Divine Life

I am the Lord, have no doubt in your mind about that. I am the Creator of the universe. Who else do you think could have created it?


I have created everything within the universe, it is all Mine. That means it is all part of Me, for I am everywhere, in all of you and in everything. But above all these things, I am LOVE, for love is the very basis of the universe. It is this love that vibrates throughout the universe and keeps everyone and everything in a state of perfect balance. Even scientists understand this.


For Me, My birthday is your birthday, for I have taken human form for your sake. You are lucky to be here while I am here, but even that is not by accident, although few realise it. Each one of you has a unique opportunity to throw off the chains that bind you, the chains of ego, desire, and the obsession with the physical and material side of life. What are these attractions and diversions that draw you away from Me and from the love that I am pouring out into the whole universe every moment of the day like an unceasing cascade? Sadly, most of you become separated from Me and continue to chase after this and that, but what do you ever find? Perhaps, a little temporary pleasure but what is that and how long does it last? Give up all these things, give up desire, shatter the ego, the little me that has so many wants.


Yes, My birthday is your birthday. Let it be a day of rebirth for everyone, rebirth for a new beginning, a new life full of love, full of joy and full of help and love for other people.


Try today to break with the past and let the past truly be the past. Look forward and see a new path ahead. Stick to that path which is bounded by My love on all sides. Move along that path towards liberation and ultimate bliss as you finally merge with Me.


I will help you, but you must make the effort. Being a devotee is just a beginning, like putting on a track suit before the race. But after that, effort is required, much effort, and you must stay on the track if you are going to finish the race. Are you on that track now and what effort are you really making to reach the goal, liberation?


Remember that I am always with you. I am always there to help you, but your life is in your own hands Accept the challenge now and put into practice My teachings which you know are the truth.

(Birthday Message 1983)

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Birth Day

I am the Lord of the Universe, the Creator, and I have created each one of you individually, hence I know and recognise each one of you when you come to see me in India. I know all about you. I am with each one of you now so I know the thoughts of every single person, as well as what you were thinking yesterday and the day before. Watch your thoughts because it is through these thoughts that you create your own future.

I created you in a state of perfection because you are part of Me. But, during the passage of many lives, you are tossed about by the waves of life and you lose your awareness of divinity. As you get lost, you get more and more drawn away by the materialistic attractions of life in the flesh, life with body, life on earth, and you get more and more confused. Then quite suddenly comes the awakening and it may come at any time. This is the rebirth, the reawakening to the awareness of the divinity within. When this awareness comes, how can you possibly desire anything, except to reach out for God and merge in Him once again, thus experiencing true divinity and perfect bliss?

There will be many temptations on this arduous path but these experiences will prepare you for the long journey ahead.

On this auspicious day, realise that it is a day of rebirth, a chance of rebirth for each one of you. Look at your desires and cravings. Examine them one by one and take a positive decision to cut them out and eliminate them during the course of the year ahead. Examine them again each year on My birthday and keep a record of the progress you have made on the path to divinity. Only in the desireless state can you reach divinity, and yet, it is within the power and grasp of each one of you to reach that state of pure bliss.

Make a new start today.

(Birthday Message 1982)

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes: New Year (1983)

This will be a year of great progress and I would like to see each one of you participating in that progress. What is progress? It is a spiritual development, development of the soul on the long path that leads to divinity. So many of you have been sitting on the sidelines for too long, waiting for something ... waiting for what? You don't know, so you continue the long wait. But I have arrived to awaken you and I am here with you now, here with each and every one of you.

AWAKEN, AWAKEN, as the New Year begins to unfold, and remember that I will be with you every single day of the year. So, how can you sit idly and pretend any longer that you are waiting for something before taking action? I have arrived. I am here now and I will never leave. contemplate these thoughts when you first wake up in the morning, dwell on them during the day, and remember them before you fall asleep at night. Resolve to live in harmony with all around you, to live in a state of perfect peace, to love everyone and to dedicate your life to the service of fellowman. That is the pathway to divinity and everlasting peace.

Vol.1 Part.2 - Other Themes:Faith

My child, I am always with you, you need never doubt that, even in your darkest moments.


The sea has many moods as you saw last night (watching television), but always there are periods of calm in the same way that happiness is a period between two pains. See the whole world like this, see your own lives like this and welcome all difficulties as further experiences necessary for your own development and good.


When you evolve further along the path, either these difficulties will not come into your lives any more, or your reaction to them will be entirely neutral and they will no longer affect you, emotionally or in any other way.


What are these problems that disturb you so much? Insecurity is behind them, lack of faith in yourself and doubt about your ability to overcome worldly difficulties. There is ego too, and you wonder how all this will affect you.


All this needs continuous examination until you reach the point where you know that you and God are one, and then nothing will disturb or distress you.


Meditate upon these thoughts, know that I am there at all times, talk to Me more often and put your trust inMe and then the quality of your life will improve.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes:Courage

You need courage to achieve anything worthwhile. Courage results from faith in the Lord and leads to certainty that anything can be achieved if it is the will of the Lord. Therefore, the first thing which you should determine is the correct path to take in life. Where are you now, where are you going and where do you want to go?


If you put your faith in the Lord and pray earnestly to Him, He will guide you and you will reach the goal. Courage leads to certainty, and vice versa.


Time is important in life because each life on earth is unique, it can never be quite the same again.


Life leads to life and eventually to life everlasting, eternal life in the liberated state. That is a permanent state of bliss when you and God become one. It is the state of "I AM".


Expereince all aspects of the earth life while you are there and clarify their true values in your mind so that you reach an understanding of what is real, and what is temporary and a form of illusion. It is a way to discover yourself, for in the end you will find that only you are real and all else is illusion.


At the end of this life you should have the certain knowledge, understanding and experience of "I AM". I and God are one. Liberation follows from the moment that you reach the permanent state of "I AM" because, at that point, all else, all desire, all illusion and all feeling, emotional and physical, simply drop away and cease to be reality. It is a state of the purified soul where all duality has gone and there is only unity, unity with God, and the permanent state of bliss.


Reach for that goal and devote the rest of your life to achieving it. I will help you.

Vol.1 Part 2 - Other Themes: Education in Human Values

What is life? It is a manifestation of God in different forms. Life is life in any form, all a part of God and divinity. Life is at many levels of consciousness and man on earth can reach the highest level. But this is only possible after a long struggle during which man learns to master the senses. So long as man is ruled by his senses, he cannot move very far along the spiritual path because this whole mind revolves round himself and this will simply lead him nowhere or, at best, round in circles.

Man must break out of this circle and move forward. But this is possible only after he decides to make a great effort to break the ties that bind him so firmly to the material way of life, where his senses always hold sway. So it is partly a question of educating himself, for until he learns the truth, he is unlikely to make much effort to change.

This is where educaton in human values begins, TRUTH. Once you learn the truth and begin to live the truth, you are on the right path. Where does truth lead you? It leads to the ultimate realisation that all is God and there is only God, and that you are part of the whole which is God.

As the truth unfolds, so your attitude will change and you will begin to change your way of life towards right living of righteousness. You will begin to treat everyone else as they really are, part of the whole, all divine, all God. You will begin to love them and by loving them learn to love yourself for until you love yourself, you cannot escape from insecurity and the disturbed mind which accompanies this negative state.

Love will begin to blossom and peace will follow, peace of mind leading to tranquillity when you can experience the true feeling that you and God are one. Life thereafter will be totally different for it becomes a spiritual life instead of a material one. All is love, all is God, all is peace and all is divine.

There is only one path, the path that leads back to God. The signposts are there, if only you open your eyes. It is the only way ahead.

Christmas Message (1984)

When you celebrate Christmas, the birth of Christ, you should celebrate also your own birth and the fact that you are here on earth in this form.

Christmas should be a time of self-examination. Christ came 2,000 years ago to awaken man to the truth. Today the Sai Avatar is here with the same message. It is such an opportunity that you have and yet so few of you are taking it. How many have really become awakened? How many have really changed their life style as a result of My teachings? How many of you are motivated by love at all that you do? The Lord cannot be deceived.

My children, awaken before it is too late. The present life comes and goes and time passes ever more quickly. What are you doing as each day passes? Are you really changing your way of life and moving away from earth-bound darkness into the light, back towards the Godhead?

I am with you always, in your midst, so you do not even need to come to India to find Me. Find Me here today, in your heart, ever present, and consider the truth that you and God are one. When you know this, your way of life will change as well as your attitude towards those around you, for they too are My children.

Celebrate Christmas, celebrate your own presence on the earth and then come to terms with the truth of who you really are. Celebrate the wonderful opportunity that lies ahead in the light of that understanding and start afresh on a new path: the only path that will lead you out of the wilderness and back to the Godhead, where liberation and the total merging of the soul with God bring divine bliss.

In the process, as you move along that path, you should become a great beacon of light, lighting up the path so that others can also find the way. This is the highest form of personal sadhana.