Grandeur of the Lord

Dear one!

Two fundamental messages ringing through Indian culture down the centuries are: ‘Revere the mother as Divine; revere the father as Divine’. These are sacred commands. When the parents are by-passed and hurt by disobedience, I am sure, God will also soon be by-passed and disobeyed. When your song treats you as non-existent, how can he claim to revere Me? That claim is patently false. 

The Lord does not demand external grandeur; He examines whether internal purity exists. A life lived badly is like a body without life. The body is called ‘deha’ in Sanskrit, ‘that which has to be consigned to flames’. A body which is identified with a person who does not strive for inner purity, lives only for that consummation—it justifies that appellation; it serves no other purpose and it cannot win the Grace of the Lord.

The value of education has to be measured in terms of the virtue it implants, for, virtue alone ensures peace and joy. Without it, man is as good as dead, or even worse. Education must endow man with a sharp discriminative capacity but, for your son, it is an ugly and vulgar acquisition!

Sathya is what I teach; Dharma is the way I live; Santhi is the mark of my personality; Prema is my very nature.

Baba