Divine Words of wisdom by Sathya Sai Baba – With Balvikas 1. Through Love we can achieve anything Your browser does not support the audio element. 1975-11-22 Document Download Audio Social Share Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram Description Always and at all time you should have the feeling of Love. From the time you get up in the morning, till the time you go back to bed, you should always be smiling and you should be full of love and you should show kindness and tenderness. ‘Happiness is Union with God’, if you are happy at all times, it means you are with God permanently. ‘Start the day with love, fill the day with love, spend the day with love and this is the way to God’. Imprint such sacred sayings in your mind and develop yourselves into useful citizens and be always good balvikas children. It may be that Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had just one disciple in either Brahmananda or Vivekananda but today we have so many Ramakrishna Paramahamsas, Brahmanandas and Vivekanandas. I hope you will grow into good disciples and develop yourselves into citizens, who are worthy of the traditions of this country.   2. Follow balvikas teachings all your life Your browser does not support the audio element. 1975-11-22   Document Download Audio Social Share Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram Description Embodiment’s of Love! Since you are children of Balvikas and since you have already understood and are in contact with the ideals of Sai, there is no need for me to speak to you at any great length. I am hoping that by your education, you will be able to turn your minds and hearts into the shape of tender and sacred creepers and thereby be useful citizens for the country. Just because you are in Balvikas and you are the members of Balvikas, you accept the principles and ideals and put them into practice and when you grow a little older and join the colleges, you should not give-up those good practices. Whatever the nature and the environment into which you may be thrown, you should make it a practice that you do not give-up the good qualities you have acquired and the good practices you have acquired while being the members of balvikas.   3. Reverence to Parents linked to Indian culture Your browser does not support the audio element. 1975-11-22 Document Download Audio Social Share Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram Description All the boys and girls who belong to balvikas should in the very first instance learn to give regard and affection to the mother, father and the teacher. Today you young children will soon grow and some of you will become mothers, some of you will become fathers, it is only when you are young and when you learn to respect your mother and father, your children in turn will respect you and will show regard to you. It is in the experience of the citizens of Bharat that whatever kind of seed you put into the ground. The tree that will sprout out of it will be corresponding to the seed that you put in. So also the kind of food that you take in, will determine the nature of the belch that will come out. Your life is like a seed.You should change the seed of life and let it grow into a tree, you should also see that out of that tree, fruits of bliss and happiness come and you will be able to experience those fruits of bliss and happiness. If this tender plant in its young age gets crooked and gets a curved shape then the whole tree will become crooked. So this period of your life, you should really feel that you have spent in a fruitful manner and in a sacred manner. Out of this period you should get sacred education, when you get sacred education at this part of your life, you will be able to learn the contents of our spiritual texts like Bhagavatha, Bhagavadgitha, Ramayana. Not only your spiritual texts you should also acquaint yourself with texts of other religions like the Bible,Quran. Our country has been known to be the treasure house of the spiritual knowledge. In such a country which has the reputation of having being the treasure house of spiritual knowledge, today, unfortunately injustice, hatred and jealousy are sowing their ugly head. While the country is full of such injustice, hatred and jealousy, you boys and girls of Balvikas, I am hoping that you grow into such citizens who will re-establish shanthi, prema and dharma in this country.   4. Children have tender hearts; Mould them Your browser does not support the audio element. 1975-11-22   Document Download Audio Social Share Facebook Twitter Youtube Instagram Description Boys and girls who are the future citizens of this country and those who are responsible for the future welfare of this country. You are like the foundations for the future of this country. You are also like the roofs for the tree for this country. Children’s minds are like creepers which will go around a tree. It is only when the elders can make this creepers creep around the tree properly, that we will have prosperity and will have a proper decoration for the country. The creepers in the young minds are these boys and girls, who have to be put in the right path. It is only when they are put in the right path, they will be able to get prosperity for the country. We have to recognize that it is only by spreading the minds of this tender children in the proper way that we can look to the future of this country.The children have pure, unwavering, sweet minds.The teachers should recognize this and put in their efforts, give their life, the moral, spiritual support and give them an appropriate background.   5. Role of Balvikas Gurus and Parents Your browser does not support the audio element. 1975-11-22 Document Download Audio Social