Have faith in yourself, your own capacity to adhere to a strict time-table of Sadhana (spiritual exercises) and your ability to reach the goal of realization. Obstacles that come in the way are often treated with a certain amount of resentment by the pilgrims on the spiritual path; but these tests are to be treated as ensuring safety. You drive a nail into the wall to hang a picture thereon; but before hanging the picture, you try to see whether the nail has been well driven by shaking it; when you are certain it does not shake even when all your strength is used, you become bold enough to hang the picture on it. You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and hastens your promotion.

-SSSB

Namaste

Georgie Ayala

Spread out on a flat surface there may be gold, silver, copper, iron filings, diamond, rubies, silks, and other things of value. The magnet pays no attention to all these, it selects only the iron filings. It is the same with devotees; God does not select them on the basis of wealth. He looks for the purity of heart.

-SSSB

Namaste

Georgie Ayala

True devotion consists in offering all your thoughts and actions to God and yearning for His grace. Devotion confined to a brief spell in the Pooja room (shrine room) or temple is not true devotion. During that time, devotion seems to swell within you and you feel at peace but, once outside, the peace is lost and anger takes its place. This cannot be called devotion. Bhakti (Devotion) has been described as a state of non-separation from God. Regardless of time, space or circumstance, one should feel closeness to God – that is Bhakti. True devotion transcends the limitations imposed by one’s daily routines and the obligations of life.

-SSSB

Namaste,

Georgie Ayala

Manava (man) is the very embodiment of divinity. ‘Ma’—not, ‘Nava’—new, i.e., man is not new. He is Purathana (ancient) and Sanathana (eternal). Man has been in existence for countless number of years. Every second of life is new. Thus, there is no particular sanctity about the beginning or ending of a year. The time or date is not the cause of your happiness or misery. Your own Karma (actions) in the past is the cause of both your happiness and misery. As is the seed, so are the plant and fruit; they cannot be different. Do not waste your mental energy in speculations of this or that happening.

-SSSB

Namaste,

Georgie Ayala

To be born as a human being is a great fortune. For, man alone can attain the status of the Divine by recognizing the reality of his being. No beast or bird can reach that height of realization. But, it is tragic that instead of valuing the chance and utilizing it, man fritters his years away and dies without attaining the goal. He is disgracing himself and denying his high destiny. A minute’s reflection will reveal to him how far he is from attaining the stage of self-realization. But, what a pity, he does not dedicate his life to the Divine, instead he is caught up in the vain pursuit of comforts and cozy living.

-SSSB

Namaste

Georgie Ayala