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If your love is pure for me I will respond at once That's why You should fill in your heart Pure, doubtless and real loveThen I will dwell in your heart itselfSAI SWARANJALI 57

I am always ready to lead you towards spiritual practice and give you apt advice. A young man was carrying a burden a heavy weight When asked, \"where are you going?\" he replied, \"For god\" \"Come with me. I will show you the way\" I said. 'No' was his reply The same youth was seen after a decade His burden was higher He was searching for something Again I asked him what he was searching for He said 'for god' I told him that I would show God If he came with me He did not care my words and went away Again after a few days, I saw him. This time he was bent with age. The weight on his back was greater He was unable even to walk His eye sight was poor Again I asked him about his destination He replied that he was after God. Though I offered him guidance, he did not believe me Such people are many around us They are so blind that they can not see God though He himself stands before them. So Don't be like them. See me standing before you Divert yourself to the path of deliverence58 SAI SWARANJALI

I provide an opportunity to everyman If missed, I will give another chance out of pity If they go on wasting them again and again. What can I do? What can one do after one becomes old?taking up many births, bearing more burdens one's life is wasted. So, Don't waste your time I have kept a way ready for you Tread in that way Take my hand, if needed. Reach me.SAI SWARANJALI 59

Connect my vision to your eyes Embrace your mind with my heart Combine your voice with mine Then my name you recite is heard as your heart beat The prayer begins in two voices ends in one The beating of two hearts responds in the same way The feeling of 'you' and 'I' is destroyed and 'we' are united60 SAI SWARANJALI

I am not satisfied with the several gifts you have offered I receive only one among them with my heart That comes out from your heart,the one that never expects any return That is called love. That is the gift I accept from you!SAI SWARANJALI 61

Earthly life is an ocean, very difficult to cross waves called earthly joys touch the shore of evil thoughts violently unearth the trees of courage The wind of ego flows horribly disturbing the sea, and causing uproar crocodiles called anger, ego and hatred wander fearlessly on the other sides, whirlpools of selfishness, of 'I', 'mine' twirl round and round. Wisdom and gentleness are washed away in the whirlpool Fishes called blame, prejudice wander here and therecrossing the mighty ocean is a herculean task. But, I am with you Walk with me, you will get deliverence from the Ocean of 'Earthly life'62 SAI SWARANJALI

Let your heart echo with the recitation of my nameLet my Leelas echo your earsThey provide serenity of mind to you alwaysMy name is the pious 'mantra' to save you on this earthIt is the powerful 'Mantra' that can bring you to me directlySAI SWARANJALI 63

I observe your every movement Sometimes I am proud of them Some times I am worried about them Sometimes they confuse me Then I think whether I should be with you or leave you Still I don't leave you Because you are my child Don't lose your courage under any circumstances Try to be the same man throughout64 SAI SWARANJALI

My will is the stronghold of peace I am the mine of self-knowledge I am the abode of bliss basis for the firmness of mindMy divine being has neither beginning nor end It never decays It has no death The 'parabrahman' took shape as me in Shirdi, pervading through this universe, as unity in diversity observe...SAI SWARANJALI 65

Don't let loose your spiritual feelings Ask me whenever you have a doubt I am ready to answer you I tread on this earth for the very purpose only the 'Sadguru' can teach his desciples properly I am the Sadguru I acquired knowledge only for you I came to this world only for you.66 SAI SWARANJALI

Firm faith Sincere spiritual endeavour inexhaustible patience If you have all these virtuesI will unfold a new love to you To get it Demand for 'me'I will set out for you at once.SAI SWARANJALI 67

You keep telling lies Still I keep quiet You torment others Still I don't comment you Your own vices destroy you Still I don't react Finally, you demand me \"What is my mistake?\" Still I do not answer you. Because, when you are not sincere in Your pursuit for me, Despite your many an endeavour I do not respond I am within you, speechless, Awake me Cultivate always good, being conscious of my existence Then I will take part in your activities68 SAI SWARANJALI

Real love lets itself out of heart It overflows from the willAnd waits to be received by others. Love does not arise, planned Nor it takes shape, premeditated. Where there is love, there is truthWhere there is truth, I dwell thereinSAI SWARANJALI 69

I am there, I am here I am everywhere My love pervades through the universe I am waiting for those who receive my love Accept this invaluable gift from me be overwhelmed in the divine flow of love70 SAI SWARANJALI

Be kind to animals or men, when they seek your help. Quench the thirst of the thirsty. Feed the hungry provide clothing to the unclothedoffer your courtyard to others for rest If you don't want to help others don't do itBut don't bark upon them like a dog know that you come nearer to me by dint of your good deeds This is the direct way to reach me I will be helpful to you in achieving spiritual progressSAI SWARANJALI 71

Don't expect that I seek 'Dakshina' in the form of money. Sometimes I demand your virtues as well as vices as Dakshina Submit them to me Improve the virtues of life devoid of desires fearlessness Industrious outlook universal love knowledge concentration duty-mindedness pleasing manners courage compassion to all living things supreme mind contentment, gentle nature soft speech Grow these virtues offer somepart of them to me as Dakshina72 SAI SWARANJALI

I know about your role more than you do Never I take decisions on the basis of your present I have already foreseen your future As per your previous karmas and your present spiritual progress I take decisions.Your present sometimes changes your future So leave everything to me.SAI SWARANJALI 73

I respond to the call of some at once I do not respond to some, Though they call me through out their life According to your devotion for me, Your sincere love forme My response will be. continue your spiritual practice with honesty Make me your source for the fulfillment of your tasks I am everywhere all the time Search for me sincerely Make me surround you establish my shape, for ever, before your eyes.74 SAI SWARANJALI

I have no shape But I take one for you That too, in the shape you want to see me I visualise myselfAs soon as a sincere endeavour comes out of your heart You can see me as you likeSAI SWARANJALI 75

Reading my leelas The essence of my teachings The recitation of my name Your thought for me If your mind always revolve round these things It can attain peace and rest You are not alone for ever I am your friend, ever behind I am always with you Shed all your fears Happy days are here again!76 SAI SWARANJALI

You are not alone You are not single Shed not tears in grief Feel not sad in calamity Don't be paralysed by set backs yield not to your enemies Remember me in difficulty I am here to wipe off your ears Recite my name in trouble I set out to console you Stand against set backs Contemplating me I encourage you, standing behind When enemies of six within you draw swords against youFace them with the sword of my shape I will make you win the war My feet will be before you You will be in my heartSAI SWARANJALI 77

Death is for desires, not for man Man dies everyday with desires You keep on dieing, whenever you yield to your senses decide to die only once That should be the death of your ego Let it die for ever Only then can you unite yourself with me Kill ego within you before it kills you Be alert always Let not be a victim to the sensual Organs, by yielding to them the moment you are weak The tigress of desire pounces upon you So be alert If you want to seek any thing, Seek me If you want to have anything, have my darshan Then you will have no death You, will mingle with me for ever And conquer death!78 SAI SWARANJALI

My name on earth is a shrine divine It has power infinite It is a wonderful spiritual power that makes you reach me. As soon as you recite my name with your heart The message reaches me directMy graceful glance flows upon you Think of me only Recite my name only As mother lulls the child My glance kisses you with loveSAI SWARANJALI 79

Keep your head on my feet Shed your ego Offer your mind to me Then peace and love flow from my feet Receive them in full That is the symbol of your purity80 SAI SWARANJALI

Don't try to remove the small foreign body in other's eyeRemove first the boulder in your eye of finding fault with othersSAI SWARANJALI 81

What one feels one of the same reaps82 SAI SWARANJALI

Those who think that Baba dwells only in Shirdi are unwise Those who think that all their problems are solved just by coming to shirdi are innocent Those who visit me, being in their own place, are blessed Because, I pervade through the entire universe, not only in shirdi Your heart is my abode If you realise this truth All your doubts vanish Improve association with me spend your time, reciting my nameI bring you to shirdi, impressed by your quest Gradually, I regulate your thoughts and keep you in the right path Return home soon Try to visualise me where you are I shall be there where you think of me know this and end up your pursuitSAI SWARANJALI 83

Loving one, hating the other thinking a thing to be good, another to be bad All this is your folly only don't delude yourself untie your bonds Shed your love and hatred you and God are One and the same know this practically, my being one with you Simply worshipping my shape is not enough Realise, I am in everything, everywhere This is the first step in devotion I expect much from you understand my philosophy Grasp the essence of my teachings Visualise me in the vast creation84 SAI SWARANJALI

I write all your prayers You need not tell me, specially, what you want I know what you need I am here to provide you what you need close your eyes and be worry-free I know what you seek from me in your prayers Though you seek or not, I gift you what you deserve. Leave all your obsessions Unload all your burdensShed your ego and keep it on my feetwhat I desire from you are faith in me, universal love and attachment with soul.SAI SWARANJALI 85

Swim not in the river upstream It will make you scream you will be dashed against boulders Subjected to the wrath of nature submerged in the whirlpool of ego The actions of your present birth against your real nature decide the woes you have to face So See me in your real nature Get my grace Receive my blessings Seek not something, swimming upstream I have come here to hand over the best to you86 SAI SWARANJALI

I am your dear friend Though the sky thunders horrible cyclone creates uproar I stop them with my hand save you from all kinds of sins Believe, I am always with youReveal all your inner secrets to meSAI SWARANJALI 87

Those who pray sincerely can visit me anytime can identifiy my existence No arrangements are necessary before you come to me I am accessible to all in all times Think that I am your doctor Bring your present diseases And future ailments to me conceal not the symptoms to me My therapy is through Love, Peace, piety, offering, Truth, Path of rectitude...88 SAI SWARANJALI

If I am a part of your dream The dream is true. Take it for granted. I come and preach I love and bless When you open thine eyes, the dream endsStill you keep the 'dream' in your eyes and proclaim, \"Baba has come\" Then your life itself be a dream of truth ending in comfortSAI SWARANJALI 89

The excellence of my incarnation is special. It is not my duty to provide whatever my devotees seek It is my speciality to grant them what is good for them I need no riches What I expect from you are only two one is zeal and the other is forbearance90 SAI SWARANJALI

Your outlook for life is short-lived It is volatile and unstable whenever a new stage crops up in your lifeThe previous stage is cut off to you Attachment is left for it No relationships No mental unrest Onething is true It is my existence that is immutable It is stable and firm in you, around you, everywhereSAI SWARANJALI 91

Recite my name always I will appear before you Sit at my feet I will lead you to spiritual practice Submit everything unto me I will make you worry-free Listen to my leelas for ever Pious will become your mind92 SAI SWARANJALI

I seem to be a man of six feetBut I dwell in everyone's heart and reign in the hearts of allSAI SWARANJALI 93

Find not fault with others Find them in yourself Observe what drives you to others blame Identify your flaws on the lines same Try to correct yourself Then your heart is cleansed Then only I will dwell in it94 SAI SWARANJALI

Only after ascertaining myself that you are pure that you are sincere to learn that you are faithful to methat you are firm in discharging your duties I impart my teachings to you only after confirming thatyou are eligible to receive them.SAI SWARANJALI 95

Don't speak more keep your heart pure view joy and grief as the same Abstain from competetion, arguement and share Shed wrath and ego Don't be subjected to joy and hatred Regulate your sensual organs cultivate good character Then I will be yours96 SAI SWARANJALI

Shed anger Conquer hatred keep envy away Seek only 'me' Fear not fearprone not to prejudice Do away with greed Seek only meAlign yourself with meSAI SWARANJALI 97

I sowed the seed of love in the flower pot of birth watered it with my teachings exposed it to the sun-rays of knolwedge still it never sprouted. In despair, I kept on changing the pots of births but in vain Then suddently I found a small root Inspired, I watered it Immediately, it let out sprouts of hope And became a man. But the man ignores me who gave him birth Treat me with love you will find a big tree Assimilate love and knolwedge to your heart's content Blessed you are, at last.98 SAI SWARANJALI

I am completely devoid of all attachments I am non-allured, to the core Still, for universal welfare, I craveI am without the feeling of 'self', withinStill, for the well-being of my devotees, I crave from within but I seem to be volatile outward This is my nature, my beingSAI SWARANJALI 99

The philosophy of Sai destroys the love for one's body suppresses one's ego. cuts the bonds of heart Impose me, the embodiment of bliss on your heart100 SAI SWARANJALI

Give me place in your love filled heart I never need the rituals of worship Keep me in your memory for ever I reign in your heart alwaysreciting the name of 'Sai' day and night Mental imbalance and impurity disappear at once.SAI SWARANJALI 101

When a fine thought enters the mind Let it be put into practice then and there. No need of doubts and hesitations Leave the final outcome to God God helps those who work, expecting no return encourages them to get their aim fulfilled.102 SAI SWARANJALI

Three ways are before you One-going alone Two-following yourselfThree-with my company, myself following. you walking before. Except the one the other two are good. If your proceed alone, You will be hurt in the thorny wayThere is every danger of missing your way you can face hindrances in reaching me But if I follow you, or you follow me There will be no obstructions.No problem, though you are hurt by thorns I myself will treat the wounds I carry you in my hands and take you to your goal till your wounds heal Pray me aloud from where you stand I myself come to you in leaps and bounds.SAI SWARANJALI 103

No adamant arguement and irrational logic on any issue If you feel a thing to be existing it is there If not, it is not there God gives only what is due to man we get what we deserve. Let us satisfy with what we have our outlook decides our joy or grief But no one creates them. We make our lives miserable with our desires unfeasible enjoy what you have That is 'Anandayoga'!104 SAI SWARANJALI

You are elated When your desires are fulfilled If not, You are depressedBecome furious, as to why god has done like that you create your own joy or miseryThey are caused by your tendency If the results are positive, you attribute it to your credit. If negative, you blame god. Learn to live beyond joy and grief cleanse your mind You derive what you deserve Receive it, as the grace of God.SAI SWARANJALI 105

I know what you want I came here to give what you need To give you joy To teach the philosophy of 'Sai' to remove your ignorance I took this incarnation to touch your heart with the fact that 'Love all' I know your needs I need you and you need me OUr mutual needs make our bonds strong I know what you 'need' Let not your mind be agitated with unnecessary thoughts Do away with your desires I came to give you joy come, relax in my heart106 SAI SWARANJALI