God knows no change, his instrument is the body and the mind is a bad monkey always changing

When you realise that God is not outside of you and separate from you, then you gain self-confidence. Then there is love, there is peace, there is truth and there is God. So first there must be self-confidence and love of God. What are you thinking about now? You are thinking about the body, but the body is just a water bubble. The body is just a dress, only a dress.

Devotee: Swami, you say that everything is God, but isn't the body also God? If everything is God, then the body must also be God?

Baba: You are asking about the body. You are thinking about the body, not of God. If you only think of God, then, for you, there will be only God. But now you are thinking of the body. The body is an instrument; it is made of matter; and matter is always changing. The world also is always changing, but God is never changing. God is the one unchanging spirit.
Sathya Sai Vahini

Mirror reflects, Mind perceives, Brain infers

“The fault is in the mirror that reflects, the mind that perceives, the brain that infers. What the mirror presents as true has no authenticity. The mirror is coated with dust and its face is not plain at all. God has no maya; He has no intention or need to delude, nor does He will that it should happen.”
Baba

What is reflection? In the case of my ex it is being lovely. That reflection has nothing to do with reality, he is not lovely in any way. In the case of the healer I mentioned under 'Bad monkey mind' is the reflection the wish to be an important healer, reflection it the need to be someone.
In the case of smearing minds, abuse and scandal in the Internet it is the same, only a smeary level of wanting to be someone and to know more than others do.

Bad monkey mind; break the silence

God is that friend and it is up to you to break the silence and bring Him into your life at every moment of the day.
God is love, and that is the easiest way to find Him, through love. If you keep your heart open and let love flow, God's love will fill you with divine energy and help you along the path, guiding you to overcome all obstacles.
It is a long journey, but it becomes shorter and easier once you share it with the Lord. He knows the path, and will guide you all the way to the very end, to ultimate liberation.
Baba

That is why Baba said inside in my dream, that it was a stupid thing to do.
I was talking with that guy, who has a bad monkey mind, about the interview, and I mentioned the questions Baba had asked the other, not me, that was a stupid thing to do. 
It is about the reflection of the mind.

Disciplining his vehicles - the koshas; how to understand it?

Education is a problem in consciousness. It is a problem in soul-culture. This aspect, training of the soul, the atman, is much neglected in many of the modem schools!
India has, through the ages, recognised the truth that every student is a soul, that beyond everyone lie experiences of many lives, that a teacher must be a man of moral power and spiritual intuitions in order to be able to help the student to evolve by disciplining his vehicles (koshas).

These "vehicles", "koshas" are five. There is anna-maya kosha, the kosha of matter, the physical vehicle. There is the prana-maya kosha, the kosha of prana, the "vital" vehicle. There is mano-maya kosha, the kosha of manas, the mental vehicle. There is the vignana-maya kosha, the kosha of vignan, the vehicle of Higher Reason. There is the ananda-maya kosha, the kosha of anand (joy). And when that vehicle is well developed there is that self-realisation which involves emotional experience of Unity with All.
Baba

You know what I wonder, on which level we are. The physical it the body.
Then there is the vital vehicle, prana, air and it is in the breath. The mind is the mental vehicle, emotions must be on that mind level and going beyond it by higher reason or also intellect, discrimination.

Difference between calmness (self) and agitation (mind)

Can you calm down when you are agitated? Can you slow your breath when you are excited and are breathing fast? Can you silence your chattering mind for a moment so that you can listen to the intuitive messages that are waiting to break through the curtain of mental noise? If you can answer yes to these questions, you have already won your battles.
Let us face the person in the mirror.
For that is where change should begin.

Going beyond the mind, first the chattering of the mind gets louder before it calms down.

Don't eat without sharing

NEVER EAT ANYTHING WITHOUT SHARING IT WITH OTHERS

Baba narrated the story of Sudama - a co-student of Shri Krishna and Balaram in the ashram of their Guru Sandipani. Once when these students were collecting firewood in the forest, Krishna was thirsty and asked for some water. Sudama advised him not to drink water without eating something. Shri Krishna, therefore, rested his head on Sudama's lap and slept. After sometime Shri Krishna woke up and heard Sudama chewing something. Shri Krishna asked Sudama as to what he was eating. But, Sudama, although he was eating grams, told Shri Krishna a lie that he was not eating anything; but his teeth were chattering because of cold. Later, as a result of this, Sudama, although a churn of Lord Krishna, had to pass his life in utter poverty.
However, when he later offered Shri Krishna a handful of parched rice, earned by his wife with her own labour, Shri Krishna was pleased and gave him a golden mansion to live and enjoy.

Baba Himself never ate anything without sharing it with others.
Everyday He used to go out begging and whatever food was collected. He used to place it in the earthen bowl in the Masjid. Some beggars used to pinch 3-4 breads and dogs and birds used to eat out of it; but Baba never drove them away.
Whenever any devotee offered Him fruits and richly cooked food, He hardly tasted it and distributed amongst the devotees present. Every afternoon, when in the Dwarkamai, the meal was served and ready to cat, Baba used to call out for Bade Baba (a Fakir from Malegaon) and used to make him seat next to Him on His left respectfully as an honoured guest. Not only this, but after the meal, Baba used to pay him Rs. 50 as dakshina and walk with him upto 100 paces to see him off.

If alone, we should offer it to him to not eat only for the body and the senses.

I adore the fire, Agnimile purohitam

Agnimile purohitam yajnasya devam rtvijam hotaram ratna dhatamam.

• I adore the Fire, the sacrificial priest, luminous vibrations of Truth, the fierce warrior, the bestower of delight.
• We invoke the fire of enthusiasm, the gateway to higher knowledge, the slayer of the demon of lethargy and the bestower of delight.

Rig Veda

That was the basic Vedic teaching of the Maharishi and I loved it because it invoked the light, the fire. It is the first verse of the Rig Veda. And it was said, who knows it is a leader, therefore, he made out of TM people all leaders.

It was said that in Agni all basic teaching was contained.

A stands for the absolute

G for the stop for the relative manifestation and the

Ni was between the two and after the stop binding back to the self, to the A, the principle of the knower of the self.

The risk; how to get a right answer

I am absolutely fine. No pain at all. The accident happened while one of the boys was working near the door. When I suddenly opened the door from behind, he was caught by surprise and fell on me and so did the chair. You see, the boy is okay, the chair is okay, this happened to me. My hip joint was crushed. But, I have no pain and I am always happy.
Baba

That is what Baba said in an interview. He talks of himself always as beyond the body. If he is fine, it doesn't mean the body is fine too.
Atman is never sick, he cannot get sick and a Sai Baba will never identify himself with the body, that is certain.

Children of Bliss - and fraud in the air

 I expect from you only one thing i.e., you should transform yourselves into ideal children full of bliss, the very embodiments of Atma, proving all this to the world by your behavior and conduct in life. That alone is True Education. All other types of education are only its limbs and parts.
Baba

Baba's writings - Vahinis

I met my own impatience. Looking at it, my impatience, too much is written, too many people, everything seems too big. Writing my blog I go by what I feel and find a quote and write it down. It feels centered in me.
If I have to understand that fraud and illusion have the same pattern, that is an insight. It is the same pattern. We just didn't see it on all levels. 
But only to a certain limit.
After I can read, but my eyes don't see, I read, but I am inside too upset, too impatient to get it.
Why I mentioned it, because we both wrote at the same time about fraud? The question is why? But maybe there is no answer.
Why was it in the air? Will we know one day?
What is behind that word - fraud?

Why was it in the air?
We get aware of it and learn to look at it on different levels. 
The market level is the big picture. Has it invaded us? Or was it always there and now we have to face it?

Equanimity and Fortitude

If the senses keep to their places there is no reason to fear. It is only when they start to contact the objects around, the twin distractions of joy and grief are produced.
When you hear someone defaming you, you experience anger and grief; but there is no such agitation if the words do not fall on your ears. The attraction of the senses to the objects is the cause of grief and its twin, joy. So long as the world is there, sense-object contact cannot be avoided; similarly till the time one has the burden of previous births, one cannot escape the joy-grief complex. But of what use is it to wait till the waves are silenced, before you wade into the sea for a shower?
The wise one learns the trick of avoiding the blows of the onrushing waters and the drag of the receding waves. Wear the armour of fortitude (thithiksha), and weather the blows of good and bad fortune. Fortitude means equanimity in the face of opposites, that is, putting up boldly with duality.
Baba

It is impossible to not be in contact with sense objects. To not get identified with the sense objects is possible.

Reverence and Respect for the Vedantic directions

The three main Vedantic directions:

• The Advaita in essence translated as "That,"
which refers to the ultimate reality (Brahman), and 'tvam' (the individual self jiva) as exactly the same, unity.

• The Vishishtadvaita is 'that', the individual self, as part of the whole.

• The Dvaita interpretation 'atat tvam asi',
meaning "You are not that". It is practiced as "Neti, neti", that means 'not this, not that'.

The Advaita essence as 'that' we find also in the light, the inner light same light as the ocean of light, the universal being, therefore, they are one.
It has to be realized, it is not a state of mental speculation, but only real if realized.
There are three levels of realization of light.
I am in the light. The light is in me. I am the light.

Fortitude, waiting for the change

Generally, people seek only happiness and joy; under no circumstance do they desire misery and grief! They treat happiness and joy as their closest well-wishers, and misery and grief as their sworn enemies. This is a great mistake. When you are happy, the risk of grief is great; fear of losing the happiness will haunt you. Misery prompts inquiry, discrimination, self-examination and fear of worse things that might happen. It awakens you from sloth and conceit.
Face the dualities of life with thithiksha (fortitude). But be aware, thithiksha is different from patience (Sahana). Patience is putting up with something; tolerating or bearing with it because you have no other choice. Fortitude is having the capacity to overcome it, but yet, disregarding it - that is the spiritual discipline.
Putting up with the external world of duality with inner equanimity and peace is the path that will lead you to liberation. Bear all, with analytical discrimination - this type of patience will yield good results.
Baba (thought for the day)

‘Over the counter’ is for me still kind of hard to get, also to understand how it could get out of hand and become such a fraud.

I understand the principal of illusion seen as fraud better than the market.

Inkan Prophecies; are we part of the solution or part of the problem?

The Inkan Prophecies talk about a new human who will walk the earth; a human that is “homoluminous,” who glows with light.

Question: What are the 2012 prophecies?

Answer of the Shaman: They are indigenous prophecies of the Americas. You find them among the Hopi, Maya, Inka, and the Apache. December 21, 2012 is an astronomical alignment that is going to be the beginning of a new era of a new age. These prophecies are very optimistic. They’re not the apocalyptic prophecies of Christianity of the end of the world. They’re really the beginning of the world. According to the Maya, humanity first appears in the planet on December 21, 2012. So we’re still proto-humans.

We’re still half cooked.

They say that this is happening between 2012 and 2020. But, on December 21, 2012, what you have is the tipping point. We’re either part of the solution then or we’re part of the problem.
One of the interesting things the Inka say is that theres "no place in the world" that we’ll be safe. Absolutely no place. But there will be safe people. You can become a safe person.
A. Villoldo

The Catholic Priest and how sad to read that

"Here we have come to the end of my history as a priest. This is the chapter of my life which will now be filed away. I felt that I owed this explanation to the reader, even though the affair is of no longer of any concern to me: to be suspended from certain ceremonies, said to be divine, certainly does not preclude access to the Divine. I can no longer go to Mass, no longer lose myself in the warm atmosphere of a midnight Mass, to be moved by the sweetness of Christmas Carols, but I can always speak heart-to-heart with the Lord, pray to Him, love Him, meet Him. Everyone can, because of this, even 'atheists' know how to pray. This is the real consolation, which no one will ever be able to take from me; there is not a single person in the whole world who can pry you away from God."

From the book 'A Catholic Priest Meets Sai Baba'

Link to a catholic priest

Begin the day with love. Fill the day with love. End the day with love that is the way to God.

Baba 

Absolute and Relative Reality; only experience

Absolute Reality

According to the "Sarvasaara Upanishad", the first category, viz. Absolute Reality (Sath, or Paaramaarthika Sathya) is that which satisfies the following six criteria:

Unaffected by the past, present and future (Trikaalabaadhyam)

Pervading the past, present and future (Trikaalanusyuutam)

Always existing (Yadaasti thath Sathyarn)

One without a second (Ekameva Adviteeyam)

Free from differentiations based on intra-species, and intra-individual variations (Sajaati, Vijaati, Swagata Bheda Rahitam)

Basis for all manifestation (Sarva Kalpana Adhishtaanam)

This Absolute Reality designated as Atma or Brahman cannot be perceived by the senses and mind, but can be experienced only, in the transcendental state (Turiya).

Relative Reality

The second category, namely, "Relative reality", a combination of Sath and Asath (reality and unreality) is subdivided into two types: (a) "Vyaavahaarika Sathya" i.e. empirical (or Practical) Reality, and (b) "Praatibhaasika Sathya", i.e. Illusory or Imaginary Reality.

Sanathana Sarathi, September 1997

Teachings

Fraud is Illusion; self-deception

This Absolute Reality designated as Atma or Brahman cannot be perceived by the senses and mind, but can be experienced only, in the transcendental state.
Baba

It means what it tells: experience, experience, experience..., and not mental speculation. Reality only, truth, law, and mental speculation is illusion.

If we talk of illusion in the West it is like, what is that?

We seem not to know where to begin to understand it.

But if we look at fraud, we can copy it and see that it has the same result, only fraud is in conflict with law.

Illusion is a state of mind which doesn't know reality in general and is in conflict with truth and truth is an unwritten law, the law of dharma, of righteous living.

Watch your Words, Action, Thoughts, Character and Heart.
Baba

Fraud in the air (pressure, rationalization, opportunity)

Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.

Baba

Yesterday I woke up there was just one word in the air 'fraud'.

I was not sure I understood it right, it was in English and I drove to work with the intention to look it up and to Google it.

Empire of love

The individualism of man can be cured only by the potent drug called "LOVE".
The forces of BROTHERHOOD have to overpower the negative influence of every individual and promote unity and strength.
I preach only one religion- Love for all, which alone can integrate the human race into a brotherhood of man, embedded in the maturity of the Divine. This relates man to man and mankind to God, thereby creating mutual understanding, cooperation and community life in peace and harmony. On this basis I want to build one humanity without any religious caste or other barriers in a universal empire of love which could enable My devotees to feel the whole world as their own family.
Baba

It was black and white, black and white, it was a patterns as I had seen it before between pink and grey, pink and grey, positive and negative, positive and negative and in the end was 'and what now?'