Let the thought be united only with prayer.  Good thoughts are the company of the man that walks hand in hand with the Lord.  Be determined, yet be patient, My child, for old habits die hard.  One will not change, instantly - that is only a miracle that can be willed with the Divine Grace.  Too many thoughts will stress and blur the vision of discrimination - resulting in an act of repentance.  To avoid this painful experience, one must submerge himself in activities that bring him inner peace.  Keep away from any desire, for the one that wants will think until he gets it, and once he unfortunately gets it, he will think, even more, until he is able to relieve himself from it.

       Let the focus of all you do concentrate upon the purpose of your life.  Do not run after what life can give you, instead, give life your whole self and its meaning will be clear - its destination will be certain.  Know that life becomes only that what you are - be strong, My dear, and face life - face life - dare it until it serves you!  Be its master, guide its every limb and show it the brilliance of self control and self confidence.  Those that become dependent on the illusions of this world, will take with them more fears.  Leave the world while you live - leave its riches, and take with you only that which you had brought - the truth and love of God!

       Control thoughts that seem repetitive.  Repetitive thoughts lead only to worry.  Let not the mind make you obsessive of its needs.  Know that the mind cannot stray, until you have agreed to be lost in its confusion.  Be tranquil - be content with whatever you have.  Inner joy emerges, only when one stops to look for outer fulfillment.  Develop the taste only for the truth - create the vision only for the right - be touched only by the pure hand of simple and selfless love - listen only to the divine command - and inhale the fragrance - the sweet breath of inner freedom from the outer world.  Shut the windows - turn the eyes of the senses, let it bloom, and experience eternal youth.  Create a love within you that simply loves only the Creator, and such activity, will lead to a state where one will dance, the exhilaration of it, will cause one to become the wave of the energy that brings manifested life to merge with its Giver.

       The body's needs are few - pay no attention to its lazy complaints and give it the strength to function to its fullest capacity.  If the mind objects to the command of the inner voice, leave its companionship - walk ahead on the wheels of the intellect.  Let the mind fear its own loneliness - believe Me, it will run to you - it will beg for your guidance - it will accept your direction and it will learn its first lesson of humility.  Be the Master by serving your life with the courage of true leadership.  Do not let your life be torn by desires - learn to survive with only the least - life only needs inner strength - Yes!  Only the power of your own inner will.  Assert it, My dear one, and you will walk free, each time.  With self control, lighten the weight of luggage - with self discipline, brighten the dark fears that have made you unknown to the absolute - with self determination, awaken inner confidence - with self perseverance, destroy the shadow of any failure - what can ever stop the one that has, himself, paved the path that he walks on?!!  Who can ever become the barrier to the one that has, himself, become the tallest and strongest of all mountains?!!  None will dare to even see the eye of the one that shines with only the truth!  All becomes possible in the spiritual path, if you realize that all that is responsible for your errors is the lack of your knowing it to be you!

Source : LIVING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD (Volume II/Part I)
Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan

chapter 6

kindly sent by sister Adeline Teh 

From the time of birth unto death, you experience different
forms of love. I call these your ‘addictions’ and dependencies
more than love itself. From birth you feel instantaneous love
for the mother that delivered you in this world and the father
that protected you from discomfort and stresses. You grew to
love your siblings who shared your childhood with you. You grew
attached to your surroundings and
friends that spent time with you in the course of your studies.
Then you gave your heart to the one person you committed to
spend your lifetime with. This union
brought your children into this world for whom you sacrificed
your entire life for.

But in each of these kinds of love, is a ‘selfishness’ hidden.
Even after experiencing all this love, you remain restless,
unhappy and in search of something new. In each of these stages
of love, you will find your eye looks for a love that is sweeter
and more complete. A love that completely accepts you with no
expectations.

When the love of God walks into your life, His strength of
goodness becomes your ideal. His power to change you is your
only obsession. His shadow of protection is your motivation to
move forward! I urge you to walk your first steps towards this
stream of love. Push yourselves, slowly, from these strings of
confinements, and arrive at My doorstep. Give up the name that
is attached to this body and call upon Mine. These doors of My
love will stay open for you always, anytime, anywhere and
whenever you are ready for Me. It is only your readiness to
walk Godward, that will
one day, make you the divine being you pray to be today.

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

From the book LIVING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD Divine Messages received and recorded by Mrs Seema M Dewan. Kindly sent by sister Adeline Teh

You are not born today to spread evil. You are born to stop the
spreading of this evil in and around you, and to start this new
life of yours today, with God as the strength of your goodness,
with God as the weapon to fight your battles, and with God as
your only peace to keep your sanity. You are born to lock the
God within you forever, and to free yourselves from the bondage
of being locked with the mind, intellect and ego that have kept
you imprisoned and away from your own family - the family where
I am the mother, where I am the father, where I am the brother
and sister, and where I am the friend; and you, "My love", are
"My world of love". Come, for I await for you to accept Me;
come, for I await for you to complete My love with
you and only you!

When He begins to speak, the words that are of the wise, let
your ears deafen to all other voices that surround you. When He
begins to reveal Himself in His true glory, let your eyes close,
be asleep to the world, and awaken to His form only. Respond,
for you are the child of God! Recognize His call - the beating
of His drums of love. The closer you get, the more intense and
insane will be this dance, the rhythm and movement of His love
and yours. All that you love, does not know how to love. His
love, is what your love looks for today. Love must give the joy
of love to all, yet it must take the refusal of its acceptance,
with no complaints. Your love demands and
expects, but His love only accepts and blesses. Leave all that
you love to live today. Come to Me, and learn that you live
only to love. This love does not want, it only wants to give.
This is the love that will, one day, find Me.

Love, I say, must be your only language of communication. Which
other language can reach out more effectively, and complete
every task with success? Only Love!! Love bears on its
shoulders the burdens of patience and tolerance to all under any
circumstances. Love is that sacrifice that feels the pain of
another’s wounds, yet heals his own wounds with the giving of
more of his love. In giving love, there must be no limits - in
time or quantity. Your weakness lies in your hesitation to
give, in your fear of giving, in your expectations of receiving,
and most of all, in your pride that keeps you as a bud,
preventing you from blooming, to share the beauty and
fragrance of your divine riches. Strengthen your fears with
faith - in My showing you the way. I respond to all with love,
I change and transform only with love, and I break the chains of
your passions and form the ties with your God within with My
love. Love can and will change anything and anyone, but you
must endure all with patience, tolerate all with humility, and
sacrifice all that will hinder your sadhana to
love.

When your journey of life becomes the mission to seek God, then
love must become your life’s companion. Without love, God
cannot be found and without God, there will be no true love.
Love will find its way into your minds, leaving it calm and
peaceful and then will travel to you heart, lighting it with its
warmth and changing all your "no’s" to a "yes", all your
"cant’s" to a "will". Your determination to love, is
your serious commitment to enter your lives as God. Love is as
dependent upon you as you are upon love, for you become the
empty page upon which God writes
His language. Depending upon the love of others, only binds you
to several other attachments, but giving and forgetting love,
will only set you free. When love hurts, know that there is the
impurity of ego in it, for the love that emanates from the self,
never hurts.

Let love be the one that praises, let love be the one that takes
all the blames, and let love be your hope to live this life and
end its last breath in giving away the "you" and taking only the
"self" back. Play and be happy in your love for all, but do
not "display". Love is your experience to truth and peace. Love
has no complexities, it is the simple face of the Lord with the
eyes of a mother that only gives and smiles. Love cannot be
learnt to give, it automatically flows, once your heart beats
for others.

Yes! Within each of you, lies a power, latent - a power to live
beyond the life in this world, and be encircled in the embrace
of love. Discover this new life to cover the life you live
today. Change from your old habits of begging worldly wants,
for they only dim and eventually fade away. Beg from Me the gift of
love, that will only brighten and shine your life and on all the
lives that this love falls upon.

 

From the book Living in The Presence of God 

Seema M Darwan Kindly sent by sister Adeline Teh

'Willing' is superfluous for Me. For, My Grace is ever available to devotees who have steady Love and Faith. Since I move freely among them, talking and singing, even intellectuals are unable to grasp My truth, My Power, My Glory, or My real Task as Avathaar. I can solve any problem however knotty. I am beyond the reach of the most intensive inquiry and the most meticulous measurement. Only those who have recognized My Love and experienced that Love can assert that they have glimpsed My Reality. For, the Path of Love is the Royal road that leads mankind to Me.

 Do not attempt to know Me through the external eyes. When you go to a temple and stand before the Image of God, you pray with closed eyes, don't you? Why? Because you feel that the inner eye of Wisdom alone can reveal Him to you. Therefore, do not crave from Me trivial material objects; but crave for Me, and you would be rewarded. Not that you should not receive whatever objects I give as sign of Grace out of the fullness of Love.

 I shall tell you why I give these rings, talismans, rosaries, etc. It is to signalize the bond between Me and those to whom they are given. When calamity befalls them, the article comes to me in a flash and returns in a flash taking from Me the remedial Grace of protection. The Grace is available to all who call on Me in any Name or Form, not merely to those who wear these gifts. Love is the bond that wins Grace.