Destiny

All human beings need a certain destiny to enter or be attracted to spiritual life.  While spirituality is for everyone, however not everybody is attracted to the spiritual path.  This destiny is not bestowed on all.  One has to consciously earn it in this life.

Destiny is shaped by selfless service.  Love all, hurt none, worry less whether others are performing their duties and worry more whether you are performing the duties allotted to you.

 - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Godliness

We have come here (into the universe) to make a living.  We live to secure victory for our decisions.  To secure victory we need to discover Godliness.  You must close the distance between God and yourself.  Hanuman kept God inside him, not close or near him.  God must be served and nurtured at all times.

        - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Faith

Faith is central to our lives.  Know it to be the foremost Guru.  Visit only those places from where you derive positive energy.  Become a lighthouse in this respect.  Unless you conquer your own darkness, how can you possibly help conquer darkness in others? Focus on yourself first.  If you have direction, you have everything.  Never desert your faith. 

                                                                          - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Devotion

Give space to God.  Give space to devotion.  Be devoted.  There are six major kind of devotion. These include mathra bhakthi (devotion to mother), pitra bhakthi(devotion to father), Guru bhakthi (devotion to guru), Ishwara bhakthi (devotion to God), kudumam bhakthi (devotion to the family) and vela bhakti (devotion to work).                                                                                                         

             - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Lessons

A teacher will teach you for a period of eleven months.  The twelfth month will be devoted to examining whether you have absorbed his lessons.  If you pass that exam with flying colours, you will succeed.  If you think before you act, you will be successful.  Be like Arjuna! He always consulted Lord Krishna before he acted.  When you are young you do not think about God but as we grow and face problems we think of Him.

 - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

God

Believe in God.  Then surrender to God.  Then perform service to God.  This is the sum and substances of life.  Call upon God in your heart.  It is the seat of God.  Perform all actions mindfully.  Have self-confidence, build faith and develop surrender.  Do not live on the back of the tiger, instead live from the top.

        - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Sankalpam

If I am just a body it is possible for you to push me away but when I am this world, how is it possible for you to do that?  You can hold a flower tightly but it is possible to hold its fragrance? It will keep spreading.  You can hug a tree but is it possible for you to go wherever its roots are and embrace it? One cannot see the roots but it is the backbone of the entire tree.  Without the roots there is no tree.  

Mahan's sankalpam is different and very deep.  Only those who understand it will be able to be with them and serve them forever.

 - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

All Forms

There is always a reason for everything that happens in the universe.  It is our duty to understand that reason.  All forms are forms of God be it cat, dog or elephant.  Discover God in everything and everybody.

                                                                    - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Service to God

You should perform service with only the Lord in your thoughts.  Do not heed to what others say and distance yourself from God.  You are among the fortunate few who have got the opportunity to serve God.  Do not let go of that chance listening to those who are envious of you.  See the Lord and what he does alone.  Do not have your attention on anything else.  You all have a duty to fulfill in this world.

                                                                                            - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Meditation

What is Meditation? Keeping the body calm and calming the mind is meditation.  You must boil in the heat of contemplation, control desire and you will grow.  Even people who have everything are not happy.  So it is absolutely essential to practice mediation.  Retain what is essential for your happiness and that is self-knowledge.

 - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba

Wisdom

We need wisdom in this life.  This is the most important earning, this wisdom must become prasadam inside us.

 - Jagadguru Sri Sharavana Baba