Encouraging a Devotee to Perform Good Deeds

Dear Child,

I received your letter. Good thoughts, good deeds always yield good fruits; prayers are always answered; that is the rule. Your earnestness to help all the folks you meet, your activities regarding the construction of hospitals, your interest in mediation and mind control—have borne fruit.

The guru need not always come in actual concrete form; he can prompt the higher impulses and urges through a friend or a book or an event which reveals the reality in a flash. After this awakening, the rest is mostly in the hands of the aspirant. The guru can, at best, watch and guide. Do not get agitated or lose heart. You will be guided, however far you may be geographically. I am as near you, as you are near Me. Be steady, in your sadhana and you can certainly attain shanti.

You can prepare the edition of the book, for the American and English readers whom you desire to serve. Whatever is done with sincere faith has My blessings. You can also keep up this correspondence. Tell your friend that this proposal has been blessed, and it can be taken up.

Inform him and his wife that I am with them. When the name is remembered, the form is evoked; when the form is recollected, the name is evoked. The name and the form are inseparable. That is the meaning of presence.

With blessings, 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba