TITLES AND TOPICS 2007

December 30th, 2007

“Be Happy With Everyone”

• RESOLVE TO “LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL” IN THE NEW YEAR

• ASK GOD FOR SPIRITUAL GIFTS

• LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF

• THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT OF LOVE IS JOY

• LIVE AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE

• BE HAPPY WITH EVERYONE

• THE NEW YEAR IS AN OCCASION FOR THANKSGIVING

• WE SHOULD THANK GOD EVEN FOR ADVERSITIES

• BECOME MORE PRAYERFUL IN THE NEW YEAR

• HAVE TOTAL FAITH IN BHAGAVAN

• BHAGAVAN IS FORGIVENESS EMBODIED

• BABA DOES NOT FIND FAULT WITH US

• PRAY FOR A COMPASSIONATE HEART

• MAY BHAGAVAN TEACH US HUMILITY

• LET US BE GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR ALL THAT WE HAVE

December 23rd, 2007

“Christmas 2007” (Part 3)

• The message of Christmas for Sai devotees

• Christmas brings Peace AT THE individual level

• Christmas brings Peace AT THE family level

• Christmas brings Peace AT THE universal level

• HUMILITY IS DIVINITY

• Humility, REPENTANCE, SURRENDER

• ONE: HEAVEN’S CELEBRATION

• TWO: CREATION’S CELEBRATION

• THREE: OUR CELEBRATION

• PEOPLE WANT THE DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF BHAGAVAN’S MESSAGE

• ONLY GOD CAN SAVE YOU, NOT MONEY

• TRUE HAPPINESS LIES IN UNION WITH GOD, NOT WITH THE WORLD

• THE SPIRIT OF GOD

• oneness is sai

• DON’T ADD TO OR SUBTRACT FROM A HOLY SCRIPTURE

• our DAILY BREAD

December 16th, 2007

“Christmas 2007” (Part 2)

• THE KING OF KINGS

• JESUS IS BORN IN EVERY MOMENT

• THE FIRST CATEGORY—THOSE WHO DENY GOD

• THE SECOND CATEGORY—RITUALISTIC WORSHIPPERS

• THE THIRD CATEGORY—T HE INTUITIVE AND WISE

• WISDOM VERSUS KNOWLEDGE

• THE MECHANICAL CENTRE

• THE MAGNETIC CENTRE

• UNCONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

• CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

• SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GIFTS FROM THE WISE MEN

• INNER SIGNIFICANCE OF SUPRABHATHAM

• PROOF OF DIVINITY IN DIVINE ACTION

• NO BIRTH, NO DEATH

• “I AM I”

• I AM ZERO, GOD IS THE HERO

• “I AM SEARCHING FOR A DEVOTEE”

• THE SPIRITUAL PATH, THE NARROW WAY

• A PEACEFUL LIFE IS A BLISSFUL LIFE

December 9th, 2007

“Christmas 2007” (Part 1)

• The message of Christmas for Sai devotees

• The BIRTH OF A DIVINE MASTER IS NOT AN ORDINARY EVENT

• ”esu” MEANS FATHER and mother

• Nazareth means divine

• “FOLLOW ME” --- “MY LIFE IS MY message”

• “I HAVE COME TO SERVE YOU”

• “BE LIKE A CHILD”

• “BE HUMBLE”

• CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE IS DIVINITY

• BHAGAVAN WILL NOT SUBMIT HIMSELF TO ONE’s MONEY OR POSITION

• YOU should LOSE YOUR IDENTITY TO BE WITH GOD

• SADHANA IS CLEANING YOUR heart

• sWAMI’S MIRACLES ARE not for show

• GIVING MUST BE IN SECRET

• “LOVE YOUR ENEMIES”

December 2nd, 2007

“Simple but Ample”

• DIVINE QUESTION AND ANSWER ABOUT AKHANDA BHAJAN

• CONSIDER EVERY DUTY AS GOD’S WORK

• CONSIDER WORK AS WORSHIP

• NOT ATTACHED TO THE FRUITS OF THE ACTION

• I AM NOT A DOER BUT A FLUTE IN THE HANDS OF THE DIVINE

• DO SADHANA CONTINUOUSLY TILL YOU ARE ONE WITH THE DIVINE

• IDENTIFYING OURSELVES WITH OUR MIND

• YOU ARE NOT THE MIND – WHY?

• CONSIDER EVEN THE WORST HAPPENINGS AS GOOD

• BHAGAVAD GITA WAS GIVEN BECAUSE OF ARJUNA’S CRY

• OLD AGE IS A NATURAL PROCESS, NOT A CURSE

• OLD AGE IS TO SPEND TIME FOR OURSELVES

• MIND IS LIKE A FLY

• WATCH THE MIND

• SURRENDER IS NOT GIVING AWAY PROPERTY

• SURRENDER MEANS AWARENESS OF DIVINITY WITHIN

• BHAJAN GIVES YOU BODY DISCIPLINE

• MIND WILL BE STABLE

• INTELLECT MUST BE SACRED

• GOD’S GRACE IS ESSENTIAL

• OPEN THE WINDOWS OF EGO TO THE LET THE LIGHT COME IN

 October 28th, 2007

“Questions and Answers”

• SATHYA AND DHARMA

• THE THEORY OF NON-DUALISM

• GROW BEYOND THE MIND

• DREAMS ARE MIND GAMES

• DREAMS OF BABA ARE VISIONS

• TURN THE MIND INWARDS TO DESTROY ILLUSION

• LIFE IS A DRAMA

• ILLUSION IS THE PET DOG OF GOD

• VISHWAROOPA

• SELF WILL VERSUS THE WILL OF GOD

• UNITY IN SPIRIT

• THE DIVINE CALENDAR

• CREATION AND DESTRUCTION

• BELL RINGING

• SWAMI APPEARS EVERYWHERE

• GOOD AND BAD EXIST TOGETHER

• THE SAI ORGANISATION IS BABA’S JOB

• THE INTELLECT IS THE FILTER

• OUR RECIPE, GOD’S CREATION

• THE DRAMA OF LIFE

October 14th, 2007

"The Inner Meaning of Dasara, the Sacrificial Yajna"

• Veda Purusha Saptaha Jnana Yajna

• THE Sunday talks ARE available on the Internet and in book form

• Body Attachment

• THE OBJECTIVE IS TO EARN GOD’S GRACE

• GOD’S GRACE GIVES US INFINITE BLISS

• IT IS THE MIND THAT GOES ON DESIRING

• THE MIND OSCILLATES BETWEEN WORLDLINESS AND GODLINESS

• IF THE MIND IS WITHDRAWN, WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

• ALL OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE MIND

• WE HAVE TO ACT ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES

• THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE

• DUALISM IS BECAUSE OF BODY IDENTIFICATION

• THREE COMMON DISEASES OF BODY ATTACHMENT

• A WAY TO MAKE THE DUAL MIND INTO A NON-DUAL MIND

• YAJNA, DANA, AND THAPAS ARE ESSENTIAL WORDS TO KNOW

• WHAT IS ‘YAJNA’?

• WHAT IS ‘DANA’?

• THERE SHOULD BE RESPECT AND LOVE IN GIVING AND RECEIVING

• WHAT IS ‘THAPAS’?

• ACCEPT THE DIVINE WILL.

• REDUCE BODY ATTACHMENT’

• TRUE PENANCE IS DEVELOPING SWEETNESS AND BLISS WITHIN

• ENGAGE YOUR MIND IN HEALTHY ACTIVITY

• WHAT IS THE FINAL RESULT OF WITNESSING THE FESTIVAL OF NAVARATHRI?

October 7th, 2007

“Be Careful”

• Entire creation is god’s viRAT SWARUPA

• EACH OF US TRAVELS THE SPIRITUAL PATH INDIVIDUALLY

• MAN IS A CREATOR NOT A CREATURE

• THINK OF THE DREAMER NOT THE DREAM

• RESPECT AND REVERE ALL PLACES OF WORSHIP

• DETACHMENT IS LIBERATION

• TRUE FREEDOM IS UNCONDITIONAL

• FREEDOM IS FLEXIBLE AND UNPREDICTABLE

• BE TRUE TO YOURSELF

• SELF-CONDEMNATION IS THE WORST OF SINS

• GOD PARDONS ALL OUR MISTAKES

• DEATH IS AS AUSPICIOUS AS BIRTH

• DEATH IS A CELEBRATION

• MEDITATION SHOULD TAKE YOU BEYOND SPACE AND TIME

• MEDITATION SHOULD MAKE YOU AWARE OF the TRUTH

• meditation IS THOUGHTLESSNESS

• TRUE EXPERIENCE IS BEYOND THE MIND

• TRUE SPIRITUALITY IS DESIRELESSNESS

• LIFE IS BEAUTY, POETRY AND BLISS

• LIVE IN THE MOMENT

• don’t try, JUST be

September 30th, 2007

“Questions and Answers”

• OUR EFFORT SHOULD BE TO KNOW THE SELF AS A WITNESS

• AVATAR'S PURPOSE IS TO TEACH AND DEMONSTRATE

• EVEN GOD MUST FOLLOW HIS OWN LAWS

• SWAMI HAS NOT CHANGED HIS SCHEDULE

• SWAMI DEMONSTRATES BODY-MIND DETACHMENT

• DESTINY CANNOT BE CHANGED BY US

• MOTIVE DECIDES IF ACTION IS JUST OR NOT

• INJUSTICE MUST BE CORRECTED WITH LOVE AND SOFTNESS

• ATMA IS INDESTRUCTIBLE

• Sathyam Shivam Sundaram

• DIVINITY IS ONLY ONE - ETERNAL AND CHANGELESS

• AWARENESS IS SHIVAM

• WE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT IS NATURAL BEAUTY

• NATURE IS GOD MANIFEST

• BHAGAVAN IS SATHYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM

• CONSIDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES BEFORE POINTING OUT OTHERS’ MISTAKES

• HEAVEN AND HELL ARE RIGHT HERE WITH US

• THE ANSWER IS THE QUESTION - THE QUESTION IS THE ANSWER

September 23rd, 2007

“Stop”

• STOP

• we must observe traffic rules on the spiritual highway

• Stop using high-SOUNDING vocabulary words

• words are inadequate to express the truth

• Facts change with time

• Facts have nothing to do with god

• Facts change, WHILE truth is changeless

• You are the Truth

• Truth happens

• Ekam Sat – Truth is One

• Philosophy is ‘Full Loss’

• Philosophy will not help us understand the truth

• God is Unknowable

• In Knowing, Truth Happens

• Truth is an Agreement

• Truth is Silence

• Truth is simple

• Truth is beyond time

• Miracles are to give us a glimpse of Divinity

• THE World is full of miracles

• Miracles happen around us every day

• A child’s smile is a miracle

• let us not limit miracles

• THINKING is not a spiritual man’s qualification

• Feeling is not a spiritual man’s qualification

  being is the true quality of a spiritual man

• Being absorbs experiences without getting affected by them

  Baba responds to questions

• Baba’s responses are specific to the questioner and context

September 9th, 2007

“Tips to Truth”

• KEEP YOUR MIND ON GOD WHILE ENGAGING YOURSELF IN WORK

• Our interest in spiritual matters is due to swami’s grace

• LET ALL YOUR ACTIONS BE PLEASING UNTO GOD

• ACTIONS OFFERED TO GOD BECOME SPIRITUAL

• deposit your actions with god, the divine banker

• BENEFITS OF depositing your actions with god

• to be free from bondage, never become agitated

• EVERY WORK IS SWAMI’S WORK

• there’s nothing personal around swami

• PLEASURE AND PAIN ARE EXPERIENCES OF THE SAME MIND

• we are not the mind

• BABA, THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

• the disease of birth and rebirth

• end-joy is to enjoy

• ignorance ends the moment you know your true nature

• Find god in yourself, not outside

• mind is the cloth and thoughts are the threads

• life is a dream, realise it

September 2nd, 2007

“What Next?”

• Devotion Is the Foundation for Wisdom and Action

• We Are Shaken By Lack of Devotion

• With Devotion, Restlessness Will Lessen

• We Already Have God's Grace

• To Earn Peace, There Is No Way But Devotion

• Weaknesses Come From THE Senses and THE Mind

• Strong Determination Is Not Enough

• Life Is Not Partial

• You Can Prefer, BUT You Can't Choose

• Life Is Choiceless Awareness

• Devotion Is Like A Leaky Pot

• The Proof Of Devotion Is Fearlessness AND LACK OF ANGER

• Self-Audit Will Help Us

• Sai Is Not Philosophy

• Baba's Teachings Are Simple

August 29th, 2007

Anil Kumar’s Satsang with an Iranian Group

• COEXISTENCE WITH ALL FORMS

  RELIGIOUSNESS IS UNITY

• RELIGIOUSNESS IN THE FAMILY

• RELIGIOusNess and islam IN SOCIETY

• THE RELIGION OF LOVE

• THE qualities of Religiousness

• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 August 26th, 2007

“That’s It”

• THAT’S IT!

• LIBERATION CANNOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED

• CHANGING GURUS SPOILS SPIRITUAL LIFE

• DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF YOGA

• THE TWO REQUIREMENTS OF YOGA

• THE MEANING OF RELAXATION

• TOTAL RELAXATION NEEDED FOR SPIRITUALITY

• SAGE SUKHA, THE MASTER

• KING JANAKA WAS RELAXED

• YOGA REQUIRES PREPARATION AND EXPERIENCE

• OUR PROFESSION IS WHAT WE DESERVE

• CONSIDER YOUR JOB AS YOUR MISSION IN LIFE

• WHAT IS PEACE?

• WHEN I-NESS grows, PEACE DIMINISHES

• THE PRACTISE OF MEDITATION

• MERGING WITH THE SOURCE

• UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE PEACE

• NEGATIVITY REMOVES YOU FROM GOD

• WHAT IS POSITIVITY?

• AS YOU THINK, SO YOU BECOME

• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

August 19th, 2007

“How Long?”

• HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GET LIBERATED?