WINTER-SPRING 2015 The Canadian Sathya Sai Newsletter So utilize the chance of associationon with me as much as possible, and endeavoreavor as quickly and as best as you can to follow the directions that I have been giving. Obeying my instructions is enough; it will benefit you more than the most rigorous asceticism. Practice Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema, which are dear to me; resolve to keep those ideals before you ever, in all your thoughts, words and deeds. That can confer on you the summum bonum of mergence in the supreme substance of Divinity. - Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, SSS, VI, 210-213 The Canadian Sathya Sai Newsletter WINTER-SPRING 2015 The Canadian Sathya Sai Newsletter Sathya Sai Sai’s Message: International Spiritual basis for value education ...……….....………………… Organization (SSIO) ……………………………………..Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba 3 Canada www.sathyasai.ca Sai Family News: Walk for Values ..……………………….….... Dr. T. 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The body, mind and Atma constitute together the human entity. Actions are done by the body and cognition by the mind. The Atma is that which abides. The Atma is the Divine spirit present in the human heart. Action, Awareness and Being are the threefold aspects of human life which have to be properly understood. Although they appear to be distinct, it is the unity in Action, Awareness and Being which makes for the fullness of human life. Prajna is 'constant integrated awareness' The mind, because it is engaged in various There is a fundamental principle which is at thoughts and motivates various desires and the base of all these. It is known as Prajna. actions, is described as Antahkarana (the inner Prajna has been described as Viveka instrument). It is known as Manas (mind) when (discrimination, intelligence, comprehension it is engaged in good and bad thoughts. It is and the like). These are not quite correct. called Buddhi when it exercises the Prajna really refers to the Brahman in man. The discriminating power. When expressing the Vedas have declared' Prajnaanam is Brahman. will, it is called Chitta. As a manifestation of Prajna is the principle that is present equally in the Divine in the individual, it is known as the body, the Antahkarana and the Atma. Hence Aham (the I or Ego). Antahkarana is the it may be regarded as "constant integrated collective name for the manas (mind), Buddhi awareness." It is this constant integrated (intelligence), Chitta (will) and Ahamkara (ego- awareness that is the source of all values in sense). man. This Prajna is permeated with love. 3 The Canadian Sathya Sai Newsletter WINTER-SPRING 2015 Creativity and science Truth is We are discussing education in Human Values. the echoec that What seems to be necessary is not EHV but 3-- resoundsresounds ffromrom ththee lolove-filledve-fil Prajna. HV: Head-Heart-Hand (values). The hand All actions that arise outo of this should carry out what the heart has approved love-love- filled Prajna are reactions, of the ideas emanating from the head. This constituting DharmaDharma. Santhi triune process has been described in Vedanta as (Peace)(Peace) is a reflection of this Truth Thrikaranasuddhi---the purity and harmony of and Dharma. Thus TruTruth, Right thought, speech and action. ConductConduct and Peace emanate from the Prajna that isi charged Activities arising from Thrikaranasuddhi find with Love, as ResoundResound, Reaction expression in two ways: one through artistic and Reflection. The proper creativity and the other, through scientific understanding of the source and nature of exploration. Of the two, artistic creativity is Truth, Right Conduct, Peace and Love is supremely important. The aesthetic feeling is Ahimsa (the attitude in which one cannot think based on creative imagination. A sculptor who of causing harm to anyone). Hence man desires to carve an image out of a piece of rock should embark on any activity from Prajna. has to have the figure he seeks to carve in his imagination. This bhava (imagination) finds Sathya (Truth) does not mean mere statement ichcha sakti (creative expression) in the of facts as one sees them or hears about them. sculpture. If the creative imagination is absent, Truth in its real sense transcends the no sculpture can come out of the rock. limitations of time, space and circumstance. It is difficult to practice this transcendental truth Hence, imagination and the creative impulse in ordinary life. Vedanta(bottom line of Vedas) have to be properly understood. Both of them described it as Rtha (principle of integrity). It is are rooted in Prajna, the Divine source of all the basis of human existence. It is on this basis creative activity. As against this aesthetic that all the facts of the phenomenal world creativity, we have the urge for scientific should be properly understood. One should not enquiry. This is primarily concerned with act on the impulse of the moment immediately objects in the external world. Experimental a thought occurs. The rights and wrongs of an research has its vision turned outward. But idea should be examined and only when the even that has its basis in the Antardrishti heart approves of a certain course should (Inward Vision). This relates to the subject. action follow. This is the process of cultivating values. What the mind (head) thinks, should be Integration must become a way of life examined critically by the heart and the right Science has been making remarkable progress decision should be carried out by the hand. in the recent decades. The world undoubtedly This should be the primary product of the needs the discoveries of science. But if it forgets educational process. the base and is preoccupied only with the 4 The Canadian Sathya Sai Newsletter WINTER-SPRING 2015 superstructure, it will be the source of much Beings are many, but Bliss is one. Religions are disorder and trouble. It may cause all kinds of many, but Truth is one. This is the kind of diseases. Science has been divorced from oneness that has to be experienced in the spirituality and faith in the Divine. Many depths of our heart. imagine that science can create a heaven on earth. But what is the kind of heaven that is Prajnana (integral, higher wisdom) subsumes envisaged? Is it the enjoyment of material and Vijnana (secular knowledge) and embraces also sensuous pleasures? This hedonistic attitude is Sujnana (right knowledge). Prajnana, Vijnana undermining all human values. and Sujnana together contribute to the fullness of man. Research is going on endlessly. Science is continually seeking answers to various The ABC of life: Always Be Careful questions. But how many of the answers are Life is an exacting master. Hence the need to correct and satisfying? Progressively, the be always careful in everything one does. This climate of peace is being destroyed by science. is the ABC of life' Always Be Careful. One If peace is to be ensured, science has to be should always remember the supreme promoted on the right lines. This calls for unity sacredness of human life. Man can experience among the people. Service to society must real bliss only when he recognises the Truth, become the fundamental purpose. Peace and Love that emanate from Prajna and moulds his life on the basis of that knowledge. Everybody talks about the need for world Human Values cannot be practised by studying unity. But real unity must begin with the books or listening to lectures. They have to be individual and the family. From the home, it cultivated by individual effort. Students! True must spread to the village, nation and the education consists in sanctifying everything world. National integrationration comes to you utter and evevery thought and action the fore whenever thereere is an of yours. Humility is the bed- attack from outside by China rock. Cultivate humility as or Pakistan. But when the the first step, Bend the external threat passes,s, body.b Mend the senses. integration is forgotten; End the mind. This is integration should the key to become an essential immortality. part of our being. It must become a way Human values are of life and cherished essential not for as an important value.