Have faith in yourself, says Saibaba

By Our Staff Reporter

PUTTAPARTHI, NOV. 23. Sri Satya Saibaba 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.

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