Volume Twenty five (1992)
Sathya Sai Speaks – Volume 25 comprises the divine discourses delivered by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba during the year 1992, and is rich with guidance for seekers on how to live a life embedded in spiritual values, service, character, and the realization of divine identity. The volume begins by emphasizing the idea of “Divinise Every Moment” — seeing every moment of one’s life as a chance to manifest divinity in thought, word, and deed. Baba urges devotees to make life itself a sacred offering, not reserving spirituality for special times, but infusing even mundane actions with awareness of God.
A recurring theme in Volume 25 is manifesting one’s divinity. Titles like Manifest Your Divinity, Divinise Every Moment, and Rise from Animality to Divinity show that Baba’s intention is to help people wake up from lower impulses (animality) such as selfishness, envy, greed, anger, etc., and move toward higher qualities: love, wisdom, self‑restraint, and compassion. Volume 25 also emphasizes the power of the Divine Name, reminding devotees that chanting, remembering, or meditating on God’s name has the capacity to purify the mind and draw the soul toward its highest potential.
Another strong teaching is the linkage between knowledge and wisdom, and how intellectual understanding alone is not sufficient. Baba distinguishes between mere knowledge (book learning, information) and wisdom, which is knowledge applied through virtue and inner purity. Thus talks like From Knowledge to Wisdom point out that to become wise, one must transform knowledge into right action, character, love, and humility.
Service (Seva) is frequently emphasized. For instance, Graama Seva is Rama Seva underlines that service to the village folk or humble people is equivalent to serving God. Baba also speaks on how parents and teachers must lead by example in this regard. The discourse Parents and Teachers Must Set the Example makes it clear that moral values are transmitted not just through advice but by living them. The volume also has discourses like ‘Bright Future for Bharath’: Baba, which blend spiritual ideals with national service and a vision for societal upliftment. Love for one’s motherland is seen not just as patriotic sentiment, but as love informed by truth, service, compassion, unity, and integrity.
Virtues such as gratitude, integrity, humility, courage, non‑violence, and detachment recur as qualities to be cultivated. In No Greater Sin Than Ingratitude, Baba warns of the spiritual dangers of ingratitude — how forgetting benefits, privileges, or divine grace is a serious moral failing. Devotion without these virtues is shallow.
Baba also touches on Avatar principle — how Divine Incarnations appear to liberate humanity, to show the path, to elevate human consciousness. Discourses like The Avatar as Liberator and Krishna—Prema Avatar explore these ideas, reminding devotees to see God in human form, to imbibe the ideals shown in those lives, and to apply them.
Festival discourses and worship practices also get spiritual meaning in this volume. For example, Inner Significance of Navaratri Festival shows how traditional festivals can be occasions for inner purification and reflection, not merely external display. Similarly, Significance of Vinayaka Worship gives insights into symbolism and deeper spiritual import of rituals.
Throughout the volume, Baba addresses the testing of devotees — how trials, difficulties, moral lapses can act as mirrors to reveal one’s inner state. Discourse such as How Devotees Are Tested And Found Wanting focus on integrity and perseverance under trial. These teachings provide comfort, encouragement, and also a challenge: to live not for praise or comfort but for inner truth.
In summary, Volume 25 is a powerful spiritual guide. It weaves together the call to manifest divinity, to live virtues, to serve others, to deepen devotion, to see God within, and to convert knowledge into wisdom. It urges the aspirant to make every action sacred, every thought pure, every relationship an opportunity for love. For those who genuinely listen and apply its teachings, it points the way to inner transformation and a life that is both spiritually elevated and deeply grounded in love, duty, and divine awareness.
