Adhere To Truth: Realize Divinity Within

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Adhere To Truth Realize Divinity Within
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Truth Life sustaining energy

• Factual Truth vs Eternal Truth Factual truth is
  true at a given time whereas eternal truth
  remains true at all points of time
• You are three people in one.
• 1. The one that you think you are at the
  physical (body) plane
• 2. the one others think you are (mind)
• 3. the one you really are Aathma.
• Sathyam stands for life-sustaining energy.
  Sa-thaya, on the reverse it is ya-tha-sa. "ya"
  denotes outer and inner discipline as part of
  Thapas or "tha". When you do much Thapas, you
  acquire divinity or "Sa". Thapas is triple
  purity, that is purity in thought, word and deed.
• When you have pure thoughts your heart is pure
  and full of love, radiating human values. In the
  term MAN, 'M' represents mind, 'A' represents
  Aathma and 'N' stands for merger of the two. It
  also indicates 'Nirvana' or Liberation.

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Truth Consciousness

• Earth has the five attributes of senses such as
  sound, touch, form, taste and smell. Hence it is
  very heavy and cannot stretch out. Water has all
  the other attributes except smell and it spreads
  to a limited extent. Fire has three attributes
  only, namely, sound, touch and form. It spreads
  more than water. Next comes air which has two
  attributes only, sound and touch. It spreads
  around. But, Aakaasa or Ether has only one
  attribute, Sound. Hence it is all pervasive. God
  who is attribute less is present everywhere in
  every object
• God is consciousness. Consciousness which is all
  pervasive and in all beings can be comprehended
  only by human beings. From this you get
  'Conscience' which is limited to Body. The word
  'Conscious' is related to Senses. All these three
  are in man. From the body identification you have
  to rise to pure Aathma (consciousness).
• The Upanishad says "Sathyam Bruyaath" (speak
  Truth). This is the physical aspect of the
  directive. "Priyam Bruyaath" This is the Dharmic
  or virtuous aspect which means you should speak
  the Truth in a nice and palatable way. Next is
  "Na Bruyaath Sathyam apriyam". This is the
  spiritual aspect. You should avoid speaking even
  truth when it is not pleasing the person. At the
  same time, simply because it satisfies the other
  person, don't speak untruth. You should be able
  to distinguish truth from untruth. It is written
  on the board "Truth is God". This is not enough.
  You should have this imprinted in your heart.
  Truth is changeless and eternal. This conviction
  is not traceable among persons in the modern
  world.

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Techniques and Sai Challenges Truth

• Techniques
• Identify eternal truth by filtering the situation
  through time capsule. Eg What would the
  situation mean to you after a significant amount
  of time (20 yrs, 50 yrs, lifetime).
• Keep good company, it will help you to think, do,
  and say good things.
• Just as a piece of cloth is a bundle of threads,
  Mind is a bundle of thoughts. If threads are
  removed there is no cloth. When you remove the
  thoughts there is no mind and no worry.
• Conscience warns you when you move on the wrong
  path. You should not entertain any thoughts,
  which do not conform to the dictates of your
  conscience.

• Sai Challenges
• Try to see Swami in every person you interact
  with.
• Identify one good trait about one person
  everyday. Make a note of it and acknowledge to
  the person about his trait the next time you see
  him/her. If you find this easy, do it with a
  person you dislike.
• Act according to the convenience of others rather
  than your own purposefully make a commitment
  that requires you sacrificing something out of
  your daily routine, and keep it.

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Peace Conservation of resources

• Food is God, Time is God and so you should take
  care not to waste them.
• Propagation is "quantity" while practicing is
  "quality". Quality is always important Youth
  should turn their minds away from distractions
  and concentrate on practicing human values.
• I always advise people to avoid waste of time,
  energy, food and money.
• Love is the most essential undercurrent of your
  talk and work. Speaking with love is Sathya and
  doing work with love is Dharma. It will give you
  peace (Saanthi).
• We always chant at the end of all prayers and
  bhajans Om Saanthi! Saanthi! Saanthi! Why are we
  mentioning 'Saanthi' three times? It is to invoke
  peace for Body, Mind and Aathma (Inner Self).
  Aathma Saanthi can't be there without, Saanthi of
  Body and Mind. Hence we invoke peace of all the
  three entities.

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Techniques and Sai challenges Peace

• Techniques
• When you switch on the Radio and listen to all
  unnecessary programs the current is wasted. The
  body is like a Radio Receiver. While you indulge
  in unnecessary gossip, the energy is wasted. In
  doing wicked deeds also, you waste energy,
  thereby facing dangerous consequences too.
  Chanting the name and singing the glory of God
  are useful.
• When you talk too much, you may stray away from
  Truth. That is why, the ancients practiced "less
  talk-more work".
• To feel close to Swami, you should have an
  unpolluted heart and engage in unblemished
  action.
• One who is bereft of desires is peaceful. Desire
  is like the luggage during a journey, if you have
  less luggage, travel will be more comfortable. So
  also in life's journey you should restrict your
  desires which burden you.

• Sai Challenges
• Identify at least one way in which you waste food
  and time and eliminate it till WYC.
• Practice whatever you suggest to someone else.
• Identify the factors that pollute your heart.
  Reduce them by half in the next week and remove
  them completely by WYC.
• Classify your desires into needs and wants.
  Concentrate on giving up the wants.

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Right Conduct Self Confidence

• Be good, see good, hear good, talk good and do
  good. The basis for such a discipline is to think
  good which entails the control of mind. You must
  perform all actions as offering to God.
• When you have the feeling of Divinity in you, you
  will not think, see, hear talk bad or do any
  evil.
• Having full faith in the Divinity within is
  self-confidence. This is the foundation on which
  the walls of Selfsatisfaction have to be raised
  with Self sacrifice as roof, so that the mansion
  of Self-Realization is complete.
• Dharma (Righteousness) is the weapon (Astra).
  Sathya (Truth) is the attitude (Bhaavam). Truth
  is common to all countries in the world. You
  should practice Truth and Righteousness.

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Right Conduct Good Company, Service

• "Tell me your company, I shall tell what you
  are". What is good company - Sath Sanga? Sath is
  Truth, that is, God. So this means you should
  always be with God. Sathsanga does not mean
  Bhajan participants. If you realize your Reality,
  which is Divinity, there will be no trouble.
• By using harsh words even to your mother, you
  will ruin yourselves. Consider mother, father,
  teacher and guest as God.
• What is service? It is to do good and share your
  knowledge with others without selfishness.
• You must become truly embodiments of love and
  serve to remove fear. Be good and get happiness
  Do good and you will be good. Through sacred
  action, make life sacred with the principles of
  Truth and Righteousness as your guide posts.

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Techniques and Sai challenges Right Conduct

• Speak sweetly, softly and respectfully with
  everyone.
• Meditate on God for achieving steadiness of mind.
  
• Performing work as worship is also tantamount to
  meditation.
• Try to identify the activities in your daily life
  that you would not be proud of. Try to minimize
  these activities and ultimately eliminate them
  completely.
• Try to keep a tab of how many negative thoughts
  you have in a day. Try to reduce the number and
  intensity by half over a couple of weeks. Ask
  Swami to help you in this process.
• Develop self-confidence confidence in Swami.
  Swami says
• Your faith should give you total confidence in
  Me. You should have the implicit confidence that
  I will look after you, take care of you and
  provide for you. You should have the confidence
  that My Grace is always with you and that I am
  always watching over you and protecting you. You
  should have the confidence that I will never let
  you down, that I am always there beside you,
  helping you, supporting you, comforting you and
  carrying you through troubles and hardships.
  Just as you lean against the wall knowing that it
  will not collapse, lean on Me and depend upon Me
  entirely. I will then look after you and take
  care of everything for you. if you depend upon
  Me with complete faith and confidence, I shall
  provide for your welfare and look after all your
  needs in this world and the next. Amritha
  Varshini, P.8
• Use one of the techniques to practice Constant
  Integrated Awareness (CIA) namasmarana,
  selfless service, live in love, practicing unity
  of thought, word deed.

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Aum Sri Sai Ram
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