FOUNDATION STONES FOR THE SPIRITUAL LIFE - 1

From the Satsanghs of Saibanisa
by Rajeswari Kasturi, Saidarbar – Hyderabad.

1. While earning money, do not be lazy. Get the proper returns for the work you have rendered.

2. Be away from the people having bad habits and evil thoughts.

3. Do not aspire for the extra martial life affairs.

4. Avoid abusing others.

5. Do not aspire for the desires which are beyond your reach.

6. Avoid over ambitious in life.

7. Think always that others know better than you and you are one step below them.

8. Do not boast about you and your family members

9. Do not hurt the feelings of others.

10. Live in such a place where you will get good air, light to maintain good health.

11. The dress you ware should be suitable for climatic conditions and not for pomp and show.

12. Your expenditure should not exceed your income.

13. You should give respect to the local traditions where you live and at the same time, you should not forget your family traditions.

14. You should avoid eating non- vegetarian food and drinking Alcohol.

15. Unnecessarily, you should not criticize the Government and at the same time you should not shelter the anti social elements.

16. You should be faithful to your parents and you should always receive their blessings.

17. You should not hurt the feelings of others.

18. You are responsible for the good character of the persons depending on you at the same time if you come across any bad character among them, you should try to eliminate them.

19. For the advancement in the spiritual life, you should select a good guide (Guru). If you fail you will not achieve spiritual heights.

20. You should eat such food which will give good health and longitivity. You should know that you are not living only for eating.

21. To lead the life on a good path, energy is needed to the physical body. One has to have his own ways and efforts to fulfill it.

22. While traveling in the spiritual path, beware of the people who try to deviate you from your spiritual journey.

23. To lead a peaceful life, you should maintain good relations not only with your kith and kin but also with your neighbors.

24. You should develop a helping nature so that others will follow you to help the underprivileged.

25. You should live amongst your kith and kin the way the Lotus plant survives in the mud water with out having any attachment with mud.

26. When you are doing the pooja rituals to the God, you will feel you are doing the routine job. But if you serve the Saints, you feel that you are nearer to God.

27. You will reach your destiny safely if you avoid traveling in the wrong path / avoiding too much dealing in monetary matters / a pomp and show.

28. You try to understand your capacities and accordingly accept the work load.

29. There is no parameter in the Spiritual life so you should lead the spiritual life till your last breath.

30. It is your duty to analyze everyday progress and you should not have contentment in the spiritual life.

31. At the end of the day, you should summarize your activities and conduct. Question self whether you have behaved like an animal or a human being. You should once for all decide not to repeat the bad again.

32. As a human being, in your day to day activities sometime or other, you are bound to get angered, but it should be like a fire to a small piece of paper.

33. If you say that he is my man and the other one is my opponent’s man that shows your mean mentality. Shun it.

34. When plants and animals are living in nature with the quality of sacrifice, why not human beings?

35. You should be away from the persons who are ungrateful in nature, the murderers of children and trouble creators in the society.

36. You should not be contended with education, penance and charities alone in society. You should feel contended with your money, your homely food and spouse.

37. In the birth and death cycle, there is no guarantee that you will take the birth as a human being again. To be born again as a human being which alone will give a chance to realize God, Always chant the name of God and tread the right path.

38. If you want to maintain a contended life – you must develop an attitude to help others, use the wisdom in your work and do not aspire for ambitions that are beyond reach.

39. Unless you avoid unnecessary disputes in the society, aspiring other’s money and women, you can not travel in the spiritual path.

40. If you maintain a tree called BAD qualities it will give the fruits such as sorrow, unhappiness and disease. So try to maintain a tree called GOOD qualities which you will give fruits such as pleasure, happiness and good health.

41. The good words spoken will attract good friends, relatives and fortunes. The bad words uttered will create enmity and lead you to suffocation. So it is always better to keep tongue under control.

42. You should be mentally prepared to listen and accept the good words from the children, follow the good deeds of your enemy even.

43. The physically handicapped, ugly looking persons, uneducated persons and poor people are all the creation of God. So do not neglect them if possible try to extend your love and moral support to them.

44. If you walk along with the antisocial elements, the society will feel you are also a member of that group, so try to keep away from them.

45. The blessings you receive from your parents and teacher are equal to the blessings from God.

46. Beware of the persons who talk sweet in front of you and talk bad behind you. Such persons are even more dangerous than the poisonous snakes.

47. If you are maintaining good health, get good education, good friendship and exercise control over senses, you are richer than richest.

48. Broad mind comes to the fore ,the day you render moral support to the person who has committed sins and repented over his mistakes and now leading in a right way.

49. The fire burns the physical body whereas the fire called jealousy will burn the life itself.

50. The beauty what you look through your eyes may by ugly to others, so try to look the real beauty with inner eyes.

51. You should know that the Goddess Death is not having partiality towards rich or poor, healthy or non healthy, educated or uneducated. She treats everybody with the same coin.

52. You should know that one day after your death the body is going to become ash and mix with the earth. Still you are taking care of the body by giving medicines to prolong the life. Similar way after the death, the soul needs peace for that when you alive, you should chant the name of Lord.

53. Some of the beautiful flowers which give fragrance will contain harmful bacteria. In the similar way some persons in the aristocratic families will have bad qualities. So you should beware of such persons.

54. In the name of penance you can conquer hungry and thirst. But the day when you conquer the desires and attachments towards your kith and kin, you will be the real yogi (saint).

55. You will water the coconut tree for first two or three years, but afterwards it will give sweet water for it’s lifelong. In the similar way, when you receive help from the society, it is your bound duty to reciprocate the same.

56. The greatest quality in the life is “You serve others without anticipating any returns”.

57. You look to the road side tree which receives the hot sun light and gives the shadow to the travelers. In the similar way, you should live for others.

58. A fool will dig for water after his hut is under fire, you should not be such a person. You should think about the God while you are in good health.

59. You should know that the society will recognize the good persons and in the similar way it will shun the bad quality persons.

60. You know that very well if you do not do the charities in this life, you will be a beggar in your next life. After knowing this also if you are not performing charities in this life, you should prepare to hold the begging bowl in the next life.

61. You should know that the relationships with the relatives andfriendship with friends are like passing clouds in the sky and likefloating logs in the river. They some times meet and some times theydisperse. A wise person will not bother for the good and bad happeningswith friends and relatives.

62. You should know that a wise person will neither get excited for the praises nor depressed for the criticism and he maintains equilibrium.

63. If you are interested to enter the Spiritual life, give least importance for the money, fear not the death and lastly the attachment towards kith and kin.

64. The way the day and night follows one after one, similarly in human life sorrows and happiness will follow one after one. When you know this phenomenon, why do you entertain fear in the life?

65. The way you accept the medicines from the herbs available in the forest to cure your illness, sometimes you should also be prepared to accept the help from the persons who are unknown to you thinking that they are God sent one.

66. You should know that your wisdom is your money, your greediness is your enemy, your character is your beauty and your happiness is your health.

67. The food you offer to your guest will be digested with in no time but the food you have offered with affection and love will be in his memories for his life long. So always offer the food with love and affection.

68. You should know that half your life will go in the sleeping, remaining half will go in your child hood, youth and old age. Try to utilize your youth for constructive work in the life so that you will not repent in the life.

69. We should follow the traditions / standards given by the eminent personalities which will be beneficial to society.

70. Any spiritual book reveals that helping the humanity is dearer to the God and harming the humanity is the sin.

71. You should live in a spiritual World where truth is your mother, wisdom is your father and righteousness’ is your brother, kindness your friend, peace as your wife and forgiveness’ is your son.

72. Try to talk the truth in a sweet manner, even though the truth looks bitter.

73. Do not waste your energies in the arguments and quarrel and try directing your energies for acquiring the good will of the society.

74. Earn the money and be happy by following path of righteousness.

75. Think that the things which will bring sorrow to you will create sorrow to others also.

76. We will all know that the God is truth. So do such things where you can please God.

77. You are inviting your downfall by damaging the justice and encouraging injustice.

78. We all know that the idle man’s brain is devil’s workshop. In a similar way keeping the physical body in lazy condition is inviting ill health.

79. While offering the charities, select the deserving, Going to their house and extending is the best way if you can. Inviting them to your house and giving them is the good.
- Remember that giving charities to your servants is not a charity. It is only a duty.

80. If you want to be happy, do not indulge in too much praise or abuse, involve in controversial talks or hurting other’s feelings.

81. You should not give unwanted advises to any one.

82. A person will be known as a gentle man in the society who will stickup to his duties and never indulge in unnecessary activities.

83. You should respect the law of the land you live.

84. Faith in family traditions, friendship with good persons and eating simple food will alone give you happiness.

85. A realized person is one who will see Atma in him and the Atma in any living being as same.

86. You should know that nobody will accompany you in your last journey (death); only good deeds will accompany you.

87. In the society where justice is over ruled by injustice and good is dominated by bad, such society can be called a dead society.

88. An educated who following bad path, a rich person who behaves like a miser and a strong person who avoids to protect the weak person, are burden to the Society.

89. Past time can never be retrieved again. If you have not done any good in the past, realize and try to do some thing good now from this moment onwards.

90. You should give respect to people after seeing their good character, irrespective of age, caste, creed or sex.

91. You should know that the pain to the body is caused due to unjustified acts and the happiness to the mind is caused due to justified acts.

92. The way there is no chance to revive the life after death, in the same way good or bad acts once performed, cannot be reversed. So think twice before doing anything.

93. You behave with others the way you expect them to behave with you.

94. There is limit even for being good or kind.

95. If you give love and respect to your mother (living God) is more than worshipping God in a temple thousand times.

96. In this world your parents are the only well wishers. Whereas all others will come and go as per their necessities.

97. A person who is averse to extra martial life, others money, pride and jealousy is a holy man and you should befriend him.

98. Starving the body and confining to jungles is not the real penance. Living in the society while following the path of non violence, truth, and showing mercy towards the lesser privileged is more than penance.

99. Chanting the name of Lord without doing your duty is not right in spirit. Doing your duty correctly is as good as worshipping the God.

100. If a person is slave to desires, he will becomeslave to all. A person, who overcomes the desire,will be spiritual and everybody will respect him.


Sai Banisa's Mission:
"To help Sri Shirdi Sai devotees in realising that Sai lives in their Heart."