One thing that Swami has been telling the youth repeatedly is to surrender the mind completely to God. Otherwise, there is no way God can make us what He wants us to become. Even recently in a discourse Swami said that His path is 'I to We, We to He', and He is not here to grant individual favours to anyone, even if it's spiritual! He only wants us to help everyone else, and derive the ultimate happiness.
Swami's message to the Sai Youth around the world this week:
"The happiness of others before yourself, and others before you, is the source of happiness, and true joy. When you render selfless service, the kind of joy you experience is yours, not anybody else's. In quest of the joy which is inside, you do not have to go anywhere, you can find it within yourself. The purpose of life is manifestation of this internal bliss in your external lives. The bliss is inside, but you are looking for it outside. With some effort, definitely you can achieve this. That is the purpose of all efforts. When you really involve yourself in selfless service, this internal joy will manifest itself.
In this world 'Jagat', things come and go. But the joy that you derive from sacred love is permanent; it will be with you forever. What is that you have to pray to Go
d for? It is only for this kind of permanent joy or bliss."
Yours in Sai Service
Bhuvana Santhanam
