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Thursday 15 October 2020 was Shirdi Sai Baba maha-samadhi. On this day we celebrate the long and loving life of the great saint. Throughout his life, Shirdi Sai Baba was a friend to all and taught that God was a friend to all.

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Love is the key to dissolving the border between what we perceive to be spiritual and non-spiritual. True love does not selectively choose or judge, it is a force that can stand behind anything we do in life and propel us to do it even better. 

Love is universal and it touches people in many miraculous ways. This is what life is worth living for.

With the spiritual master, seva, and the community there is no storm we cannot ride out, there is no storm too heavy or violent or dark, that we cannot manage our way through.

People can tell you a hundred things about spirituality, but until you have your own spiritual experiences, it doesn’t fully make sense. Once you have had those experiences, no matter what anyone says, they can’t shake you from it. 

Gurudev tells two cautionary tales about how our worldly desires trap us and time inevitably changes everything. He illustrates in these tales how our true self is always with us, even though it is often ignored or forgotten completely.

Bhakti is the secret. It is what takes your yoga to another level, on the fast highway to God, enabling you to finish your spiritual journey and the purpose of incarnating on earth.

A very important question that one should truthfully ask and analyze every single day is – HAVE I BEEN LAZY TODAY?

This is what we need to develop in our spiritual practices and our life. To love with the innocence of a child, to live with the innocence of a child, we need the same presence of heart and mind as a child at play.