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Sri Sathya Sai on Organisation

“I have not got the slightest intention to utilise the Seva Samithis (Service Organisations) for propagating My Name or canvas homage for My Name. No! I am content only when spiritual endeavours and disciplines to elevate and purify man are progressing everywhere. It is only through these that My universal reality will be revealed. So, do not limit Me to the boundaries of any one name and form. Your aim should be to see the self-same God in all the Forms that are worshipped,to picture Him in all the Names, nay,to be conscious of His presence as the inner motivator of every living being, in every particle of matter. Do not fall into the error of considering some to be men worthy of reverence and some unworthy. Sai is in every one; so, all deserve your reverence and service. Propagate this truth;that is the function I assign to the Seva Samithis.”

— Divine Discourse, All-India Conference, Prashanthi Nilayam, 21 November 1970

“You know that these organisations-Seva Samithis, Bhajana Mandalis, Seva Sanghams are for awakening in man the consciousness of the Divinity inherent in him and to encourage him to cultivate it, so that he could blossom into a real Saadhaka and then into a Saadhu (detached, devoted, virtuous, wise, aspirant), and finally into a Liberated Personality merged in the Supreme.”

— Divine Discourse, Emakulam (Kerala),20 December 1967

"These organisations are meant to broaden your love, to canalise your activities along lines of constructive service performed, as worship, not to confer on some people more power over others, or greater control over the activities of other members, or for the display of the devotion of some people. All must be conscious of this, all the time."

— Divine Discourse, Emakulam (Kerala),20 December 1967

“Sathya Sai Seva Samithis are built on love. They thrive on love; they spread love. No other emotion or attitude has any place therein. Divinity is the magnet; humanity is the iron. Love is the force that brings them together. Nara is the iron, Naaraayana is the magnet. Bhakthi or Love is the force that draws the two together. The a-shaanthi (peacelessness) from which man suffers should disappear; man should attain prashaanthi (inner, deep-rooted peace); that is the aim of the institutions initiated by Me.”

— Divine Discourse, Prashanthi Nilayam, 1 October 1968

“I must say plainly that ninety out of a hundred among you have not clearly visualised the purpose for which I have allowed you to form these Organisations. It is not to give some people places of authority or power, or for ensuring fame and publicity for Me. It is to build upon the earth the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men on strong foundations. This must be clearly grasped by all of you. You are not engaged in social service through these organisations; you are engaged in your own service. All the items of work are aimed at expanding your heart and purifying it.”

— Divine Discourse, Prashanthi Nilayam,21 November 1968

“The Sai Organisation is set up to develop and foster Love; it is not set up through compulsion; it arose from the heart and it expands the heart. The inner desire to achieve Love and expand Love has taken outer shape as this Organisation.”

— All-India Conference, Prashanthi Nilayam, 21 November 1970

“The Organisation has been established, not for publicizing any person or creed, or to provide berths for some ambitious individuals, from which they can exercise authority over others. It is as a means of Saadhana that the Organisation is to be understood. Take it in that attitude.”

— Divine Discourse, Madras, 22 December 1971

“Society shapes the individual, provides the arena for his development and sets the ideals he should plant before himself. When the individual is stronger, more intelligent, more service minded, and more efficient as a worker, society benefits; when society is more aware of its role and of the need to cleanse that role with humility and wisdom, the individual benefits. Sai has resolved to transform the individual and society by promoting this mutual regeneration, by the action of one on the other; hence, the formation of this Organisation, and the establishment of its Units in all countries, for the sublimation of the human into the Divine.”

— Divine Discourse, Raajahmundry, 4 January1974

“The Sathya Sai Organisation has been established to provide sacred tasks for every moment of wakeful life, to make people conscious of the vagaries and vanities of the mind and teach them the processes of disintegrating the mind and establishing the reign of the pure intellect, by which alone the One behind all this multiplicity can be realised as the only Reality.”

— Divine Discourse, Prashanthi Nilayam,24 November 1974

“In the Sai organisation there is no room for distinctions of race, religion, caste, class, or community. All should regard themselves as the children of one God. When they are united by this sense of divine kinship, they will act with Love towards all. They should shed all narrow and limited ideas and engage themselves in service with a heart full of love for all. True seva (selfless service) can come only out of a pure and loving heart.”

— Divine Discourse, Prashanthi Nilayam,18 November 1984

“The Sai Organisations were set up to make people realise their true divine nature. What is the primary purpose of the Sai Organizations? It is to make the people realise that they are sparks of the Divine and not embodiments of the physical products of Nature.”

— Divine Discourse, Sixth World Conference of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, 21 November 1995

“Service is the life breath of the Sathya Sai Organization. Remember the truth that you are born to serve society.”

— Divine Discourse, Prashanthi Nilayam, 16 October 1999 •