Oh man!....
(Man means every human-being)
Lost in the mundane world, and clueless to
overcome it, you are overtly agitated?
Approach Guru to learn spiritual truths
to escape its perils!
Bound to the cycle of birth and death,
You are ever in sorrow!
In this life, acquire True Knowledge
to be blissful.
Why do you get enamoured
of the temporal sensual pleasures?
Are not all temporal pleasures
only temporary?
Seek to be cured of the disease
of Samsara! Discriminate carefully
The purpose and utility of the cycle
of life and death you pass through!
Meditate ever on
Sai within!
Meditation on the Divine name
Releases you of all demerit.
What do you gain?
amassing huge wealth?
All wealth sans charity
is appropriated only by others!
All living beings in the world
are only reflections!
Know this truth and
be kind to one and all!
Do not postpone
God’s work ever!
Ever do God’s work and
righteous work without delay.
The inert body and the inert mind
are not your true nature!
Know quite well that you are
the ever blissful Atman!
The cycle of life and death
relates only to the body of five elements!
You are beyond this cycle,
for You are the eternal and pure Atman!
Lost in the mundane world............
All that is perceived
is destroyed in course of time!
Know for certain that
You are the indestructible Brahman!
Only Atman constitutes the cosmos;
and there is no second!
Be assured that
there is none other than YOU!
Realise that body is the chariot
and the intellect is the charioteer!
With due discrimination, subdue
your sense –organs to reach your goal!
Search intensely for Guru
who has truly been realised
Meditate on Sai, reaching Him,
for self-realisation!
Entertain no such doubt as
‘do I get bliss as the holy men do?’
Spiritual practice leads everyone
truly to deliverance in this world!
Why do you feel depressed that
‘I am forlorn and weak?’
Be bold to realising that
you have all the powers within!
Be vigilant ever against
enemies such as lust!
Be bold to fight them
to overcome!
Know the essence
Of all scriptures!
‘Help alone is merit; hurt is demerit’.
Be kind to one and all!
The way of devotion is the best
of all the ways to Realisation!
Follow it in all purity and sincerity
To reach your goal!
Lost in the mundane world............
Karmic impressions have been
Following you for several life-cycles!
Overcome them all
through spiritual practice!
Do not forget God
Though immersed in mundane work!
Contemplate on the Divine
is one sure way to reach Him!
There is one great law
Operative ever in the universe!
‘Merit begets happiness, demerit sorrow’.
This is ever true!
Look upon your neighbour
as you think of yourself!
Pray for the happiness of others
as you care for yours!
Be calm and composed
even in difficulties or adversity!
Practise ever tolerance
and disinterestedness!
Be eve away from anger, etc
that bind you to Samsara
Control anger and be free of desire
only to attain to salvation!
No learning in the world
whatever, eliminates sorrow!
The only learning that eliminates it
is the knowledge of the Brahman!
You are not a leather puppet
made of the five elements!
You are the very form Bliss
Beyond the confines of the elements!
Contemplate ever that you are
the Sat-Cit ananda Brahman!
By such constant contemplation
do you attain to the Brahman!
Lost in the mundane world................
Make hey while the sunshines!
Attain God
when you are healthy
and have enough to eat!
Why do you feel dejected, while choosing
to languish in the cycle of time!
Attain to immortality
to enjoy supreme bliss!
Who will save you from the clutches
of death when it is due?
Take refuse in Sai when you are alive.
to attain salvation!
Kith and kin do desert you
at the time of your death!
Only the Karma you do
Accompanies you wherever you go!
Be pure in heart doing good deeds!
and avoiding bad deeds!
With pure heart, you gain
True knowledge through spiritual practice!
Why do you get agitated.
immersed in the misery of Samsara?
Realise that you are the Atman
untouched by sorrow and pain!
Help even to one living being
Is true worship of the lord!
‘Service to mankind is service to the Lord’.
Help others ever!
Experience of distress in dream
disappears when you are awake!
So do mundane afflictions
on realisation of the Atman!
Pure unsullied Bliss
Ever arises within!
Go deep within
to realise the true Bliss!
Lost in the mundane world...................
Desire for more is always on the rise
with temporal enjoyment!
Be unattached to sensual pleasures
to experience the bliss of the Atman!
Why do you rejoice
at the beauty of your body and limbs!
Realise now itself
that all of them join the dust very soon!
Fame and wealth do not help
to protect one in the world!
Satya and Dharma alone
rescue one at the end!
Every moment spent without contemplation
of the Lord is sheer waste!
At least from now onwards
ever contemplate on God!
Know ‘who am I?
When you are hale and healthy!
Do God’s work
when you are active and alert!
Swerve not from Truth
through thick and thin!
Be bound ever to Satya and Dharma,
that will bring you true happiness!
The message of the Gita
is sufficient to lead one to salvation!
Understand its import thoroughly
to attain liberation!
Spend part of your earning
On charity to earn merit!
Earning merit certainly
leads one to Divine Knowledge!
Meditate on AUM
in all sincerity and devotion!
AUM meditation burns down
all the accumulated demerit!
Lost in the mundane world..................
The Brahman is present
in equal measure in all living beings!
Be ever kind to all
considering them to be Divine!
The body of every being
is the abode of the Divine!
Ever worship the Atman
with good attributes and conduct!
Learn the spiritual truths
When you are hale and healthy and energetic!
There is no chance to gain knowledge
when you get old and infirm!
Remove the errant thoughts,
if any, from your intellect!
Unsullied intellect is
the true ground for Realisation!
‘Body is a boat;
In-dweller is the boAtman’
When the boat is afloat.
cross the ocean of Samsara to salvation!
Good and limited diet
leads to good health!
In the spiritual domain. Good health
is the first pre-requisite!
Know clearly that human life
is the best of all forms of life!
Ever contemplating on the Divine,
realise humanism in its true spirit!
Earn merit
serving the poor with charity!
Consider that merit is wealth
And earn wealth in a grand way!
Keep sense-organs,
which run hither and thither, under control!
Be careful, as the unbridled horses
topple the wagon!
Lost in the mundane world..................................
(Sai Tattva –Sudha –published by Sri Sathya Sai Veda Pratishtan)