God is a part (present) within all. Though He is all powerful, He has also given some power to all. He gifted limitless power in man. Even though the physical strength of man is a little small, He gifted limitless power of the mind. If man resolves in the mind, he can do anything. He can achieve anything. There is nothing at all which cannot be achieved by man in this world with the power of the mind.

Putting to use all powers, he (man) is going to the moon. He is going lakhs of miles to the moon, but is he arriving even a half-inch inside his heart? No. Therefore, the power that reaches the heart is the power of the mind.

However, this Divine power should be used in the right way. Yet man, unable to know that there is such a power in (inside) him, is succumbing to numerous difficulties, sufferings, and sorrows. He is unable to recognize his own power.

If he wants to see his face, there should be a mirror that reflects (it). In that same manner, if he obtains (can experience within) the mirror of Divinity, (or) Divine feeling, he may fully understand his (own, innate) power.

Take a small stick. If it is put in fire, that fire enters the wood and makes all of the wood (turn) into fire. That only is:

We can achieve anything by going near God and having close intimacy with God. If we keep a water bubble in our palm, it will become mist. But, if that water bubble reaches the sea, it will become the sea. So, the relationships that we keep should be superior ones. Based on this:

The type of people you keep company with, that type of person you will become. When you gain the company of the Divine, you also will become Divine. In the presence of God, there is no one with decreased (less) power.

There are all powers in everyone. But man is unable to remember his own heart, unable to behold it (seeing within), unable to understand it. For that reason, man is lowly.

Kuchela (Krishna's boyhood friend) came. Only Krishna gave Kuchela all powers. He gave all ornaments. But, after giving it, He did not keep quiet. He requested, "Kuchela, what did you bring for Me? Give Me some beaten rice!" That is also a desire of God. What is the reason? To sanctify him (Kuchela), He gave all powers and He accepted from him a handful of mere beaten rice.

Not only that. In Vamana Avatar, God, who has all powers, went to the devotee and He requested, "Give Me three paces of land." This is asking, isn’t it? For what reason? To make him (the devotee) sanctified.

One day Krishna wandered, wandered, and wandered. Then He went to a gopika's house. He asked, "Gopika! I am very hungry. Give something to Me." The gopika was very surprised. She said, "God is hungry? Do we have that which should be given to You? We don’t have it, Swami!" Then Krishna only said, "Even the watery buttermilk in your house is all right. Put it in a small tumbler and give Me. That is enough."

"Who can hold an oil lamp to You, who has the radiance of crores of suns? Is it right to arrange a feast for You, who has the Universe in His stomach? Who can give a feast to You, Swami?"

God requested his desire (in order) to liberate them. Krishna went near Draupadi, who was suffering hardships in Kanadava forest and requested, "Younger sister, I am hungry. Give Me some food."

Then she said, "Krishna, don’t You know? Are You thinking that I am in Hasthinapura or are You thinking that I’m in a forest? If I were in Hasthinapura, I would be able to give the food You ask for. But I am in the forest. I am spending time eating roots. What food can I give to You?"

Then He said, "If there is even a small bit in the vessel you cleaned, it is enough. Offer it to Me. It’s enough. My hunger will be satisfied."

Then, based on (following) Krishna’s order, she found a small leaf was clinging to the edge of the vessel she had cleaned. She had made leaf-vegetable that day. Alas! She took that (piece of) leaf vegetable and gave it to Krishna. Then Krishna said:

He said, "Draupadi! Your devotion and humility are the very best. So, let all of this be undiminishable." (Once Krishna put that morsel into His mouth,) not only His, (but) the hunger of the thousands of disciples that came with Durvasa was also satisfied.

To prove to the world and others about certain ideals, God also keeps a few desires and He keeps requesting them. It is not that God doesn’t have it (whatever He is requesting). He has all. But to sanctify him (the devotee), to make his hand very sacred, He (God) continues requesting.

What is the ornament for the hands? Only charity is the ornament.

To say (repeat) the Sastras is the proper type of ornament for this neck.

It is very beautifying for these ears to listen only to good, not (simply) wearing swinging earrings! So each one has a beauty, a bliss. So all the desires that God requests in the world are for the bliss of others, for the convenience of others. For the attainment of others, He continues requesting like this.

All of you know the story of Laila and Majnu. Laila was a very rich lady. Majnu was a pauper. Laila wanted him and she wanted to marry him. But then she had doubts. "I am rich. He is very poor. Will he accept or not? How is his mind? I love him. Does he love me or not?" Thinking that, she tried to test him.

She sent her two servants to Majnu. They asked, "Laila wants a little of your blood." He said, "Why only a little blood? I will offer everything that flows in my body to her. If she is well, it is enough for me."

They told that news to Laila. Then Laila understood. "Fie! I have measured my small love. His love is such a deep love! What a valuable love! What a great love!" She understood.

In this same manner, if God requests a desire, they (some people) think of God as low. This is a big mistake. He has no desires for Himself. He asks for these desires for others, to attain it for others, in order to uplift them. That (selfish attitude) is for others, but it is not for Him. He acts only for others. This (Divine) nature has to be recognized.

Dr. Rajeswari, who started this hospital, is known to all of you (old-timers). However, the new people here may not know (about her). She is the mother of C. Srinivas. At the very beginning, she started this hospital in a small room. She did a tour of the whole world and came (here). She did work in many countries like America, Japan, Germany, and India. She was highly educated.

She came to me and said, "Swami! Our Srinivas should study all the degrees: A, B, C, D, and up to Z!" (I said,) "Mother! You have studied, but he should also want it, isn’t it? Don’t keep these thoughts." Education was so dear to her, alas! She had so much love for everyone.

The hospital that was started in one small room has transformed into such a big building. Every year a new section is started. She made this hospital so big. Its name is 'General Hospital', but all kinds of medical treatments are going on here. It is not possible to say that any medical treatment is not here. How can it be a 'small' hospital? It isn’t! It is big only! In its form, it is small. But the service (given here) is very great. There is no hospital (which is) more ideal.

Big, big buildings may be built. We also built a big Super Speciality Hospital here. Seeing it, it is (looks) like a big elephant. But what is happening there is small - small like the eyes of mosquitoes. They are sending them (home) after only doing two things: heart operations and brain operations.

If you see the people who come here (you come one day and see), all are poor people. They are very weak. It is necessary to do seva to people like that. What does seva mean?

Seva should be done with that sacrifice. It is not just doing a yaga nor doing great thapas. For whom are you doing yajna, yaga, and thapas? Are you doing it for yourself? Or are you doing it for God? If that enquiry is done, (it is) not (done) for God at all. Why all of these for God? You are doing (only) for yourself!

"I am doing yajna." For what? You are saying, "For the welfare of the world." (But it is) not for the welfare of the world! He is doing for his (own) welfare only. He is saying, "It is for the welfare of the world." (But) it is not for God at all. To give welfare to the world - to give bliss to all the world - is done by God only.

God is giving bliss to all in all ways. He is bringing all three - strength of the body, mind, and spirit together. However, a few people may have strength of the body, yet they may not be having strength of the mind. There may be strength of the mind, but no strength of speech (capacity for expression). Only when these three are unified is he a true man.

What is that 'Mankind'? ('Mankind' means) the unity of thoughts, words, and actions (deeds). With the unity of these three, they are doing expansive service in this hospital.

(Dr.) Rajeswari used to serve night and day. I only used to shout and I used to say, "Rajeswari! Only if you are well, isn’t it, service can be done for so many people. So take a little rest." She said, "Swami, what is my rest? To do service to them is my rest."

In that same manner, continuing to serve, at last she said, "I should give up my life in the hospital only." In that way, serving, serving, serving, serving, sitting on the chair, she gave up (her) life inside this hospital only. Then she was not taken anywhere from the hospital. I had everything done here only.

In that same way, from that day (Dr.) Savitri also came. Savitri also is doing so much service night and day. (Nurse) Dolly also does a lot of service equal to her. These types of people are not (the) only (ones) doing service. There are also many doctors who come from the city. There is an eye doctor. There is a tooth doctor. There is an ear doctor. There is a bone doctor. He went to America and returned.

All of them are coming and continuing to serve. They are doing good (service) according to their capability. They don’t show any dearth (lack) of capacity. Without showing any defect in capability, they are fully revealing their powers in this offering of service. All of these doctors come here and are doing work.

Now here there is a doctor. I gave a plate and a suitpiece to that doctor. At the end, unexpectedly another doctor came. There was no plate there to give him. Immediately this doctor went, brought the plate that had been given to him, and he gave it (to this unexpected latecomer). What great sacrifice this is! There is so much sacrifice like that in these doctors! Alas! They even sacrifice what is their own and (still) they have Love for others!

To prove that Love to us, one doctor here immediately showed it (in this example of sacrificing Love). None of you paid attention, but I observed it. They are doing sacrifice like that.

That type of spirit of sacrifice won’t come to all doctors. They (other, outside doctors) have taken all great, great distinctions. They have attained great, great names. They have gained fame in the world. They advertise. However, our doctors won’t go anywhere near advertisement. They don’t desire fame in the world at all. Seva, seva, seva. Only due to having all doctors like this, has this hospital got such a great name!

Yet, I saw (that) the area is very small (referring to the original General Hospital in Whitefield). In those five acres, there is not even an inch of space (available now)! They have built on all of it. There are four operation rooms. But for that reason, before I came here (today), I laid the foundation to a new building of the General Hospital and (then I) arrived (here). The Chief Minister also came (with Me). Our Adi Keshava gave 10 acres of land there (near the new Super Speciality Hospital).

I laid the foundation for the (new) General Hospital but (actually) I never go to lay the foundation. I don’t like that. I don’t like to put so many rocks and come (return). Opening (ceremony) is very important to Me. I said, "Alas! This (today's) date is not important. Put (make) the opening date for 23 November." I even said the opening date beforehand!

If the (new) General Hospital is built (over) there, then what will happen to this hospital (referring to the original General Hospital in Whitefield)? This (original) hospital is very important. It was like a small seed. Now it has become like a big Banyan tree. The seed of the Banyan tree is very small. But the tree is very huge. This (hospital) will grow, grow, grow, grow even further (like the Banyan tree).

Without mother and child, what will happen to the world, tell Me? What a shame! Nowadays, the intention (or good feeling) of the mother to look after the child and the love of the child to look after the mother is not around. Children are being born. There are also those who don’t receive the mother’s love. Not only now, there are numerous stories from former times also (of children not receiving mother's love).

You know Gandhari was Drishtarashtra’s (the father of the 100 Kaurava sons) wife. Because Drishtarashtra was blind, she also tied blinds around (blindfolded) her eyes. She didn’t ever see her children. She didn’t see them with her eyes.

Then, after all 100 sons died in the (Mahabharata) War, Krishna went to console them. Then Gandhari said with anger, "Krishna! You made it so that not even one son was left to do the death anniversary functions (the annual Hindu functions held in honor of the deceased parents) for us, is it not! What results came to You by killing all my sons? Did they not come into (receive) Your looks? (Did You not look after them?)"

When she questioned (Him) like that, Krishna gave a proper answer: "Mother! Did you see the children that were born to you? They did not come into your eyes. They didn’t come into your vision at all. Now, how will they come into your vision? The son who cannot have the look of the mother cannot attain the vision of God at all." So, we have to earn the (good) sight of the mother.

Saying this, they (the ancients) gave first place to the mother. First and foremost, in what way could the Kauravas, who could not achieve the love of the mother, have the love of God? It won’t come. It won’t come!

Due to (such) sacred embodiments of sacrifice being born in the land of Bharath from that time, today Bharath is safe. Arjuna also said, "Why should I fight the war? What will be obtained by this war? Having fought the war, after relatives and friends are destroyed, what is it that has to be experienced? I don’t want the war at all." Arjuna was such an embodiment of sacrifice.

Sacrifice (dedicate) the powers that we know and the stratagems that we do to give help to others. We have learnt for that reason. But all the education that we have learnt is not to be sold. You have to share all the education that you learned with others. It has to be used for others. What is greater than that, tell Me?

If there is a mother and child, give them a little medicine. If you have thus protected them, they will be happy. They will continue to think of you for their whole life. Protecting a mother and child like this, developing the relationship of love between mother and child, we have to give to them that power and capability in this land of Bharath.

We have to protect this feeling of Mathru Devo Bhava. We have to foster this sacred heart and we have to begin to sacrifice. When we do (some) sacrifice, we’ll have the right type of well being.

From ancient times, in the culture of Bharath:

With the unity of these two, humanness was fostered in Bharath. Truth, reputation, Dharma, good speech, sacrifice, liberation - the human race is the form of these. They (humans) are the embodiments of Truth and sacrifice. (But) such a human race like this has totally lost morality and honesty. There is no honesty. There is no morality at all either. When that is not there, what is the use in living?

What is the use of studying so much? What is the use of wandering to so many countries? That is not what we should learn. There is no need to go to any country. There are all powers in our country. Having that (all powers here), think Truth, practice Dharma, live with sacrifice. There is nothing better than that. What excels that sacrifice?

There is nothing that excels it (sacrifice).

Through this effort, Rajeswari gave all the money that she earned to this hospital. "That room should be built. This room should be built. There are no rooms at all for ladies and for delivery." Saying this, immediately she built all the rooms.

After that, Savitri is a reflection of her in all ways, night and day, work, work, work! I said, "If you work without eating, what will be your plight? In what way will you be able to serve? Don’t do like that." I took (made) her promise. "Eat on time. Then you can do anything."

What sort (of doctors) are they, do you know? No one will tell you. They won’t even take a naiya paisa (the coin of smallest value in India, value less than a penny). Even though it has been (going on for) twenty-five years, neither they nor the doctors that come and go (visiting doctors), none of them take (any) money. The doctors bring their own supplies and they use them only (the things that they brought). They are also giving medicines and serving with joy. There are crores of doctors like that in our land of Bharath. But they (this sacrificing type) can’t be seen (noticed) by us.

He only is a truly good person. He only is a true sevak (one who does seva). He is a true doctor. The Sastras say:

Doctors are equal to Narayana. What is Narayana doing? He keeps helping everyone. So, all these Vaidyo Narayans (doctors whom are God) keep helping everyone. By all of them serving, this hospital is getting an even greater name and progressing.

If anything happens in the Super Speciality Hospital in Puttaparthi, immediately they (doctors) will come running from here. There also we established sections of Cardiology, Urology, Nephrology, and Ophthalmology. Our eye doctor, Hemant, specially comes from here to Puttaparthi every week and he is doing operations for everyone there. Is it an ordinary matter, coming so far to Puttaparthi and doing service? Will anyone do such sacrifice? Even if called, they won’t come. They are doing so much service.

Then, the tooth doctor (dentist). He also is coming there. Sometimes when the operations are more, anesthetists are less. It’s enough to phone! Alas! He will come running. It is very rare to get doctors like that. The ones coming to his hospital are being obtained so easily. They are going to a lot of exertion and doing it. I told Hemant, "I will have all the necessary instruments brought for the eye operations. You do only one thing specially. Do ideal eye operations and show."

I am always saying that only. It is joyful to Me to give encouragement and enthusiasm to the ones who do like that, but not to mention (speak of) obstacles. No matter how many hospitals like this are built, I will do anything.

I don’t have anything to do with money. I don’t need money at all. You will think, "From where is money coming to Sai Baba? Does He materialize it?" But I don’t have such bad intentions. Why? Because money is relating to the government. I will materialize any object, but I only won’t touch money. Why? Because all of that belongs to the government. Indian money to America, American money to Japan, Japan money to Italy, will not be accepted. How will this (Indian currency) money go to another place? It won’t go. When money is needed, at that time, someone will get the impulse: 'Money should be given.’ And they keep giving.

Hence, whatever is needed, it is enough if Swami says one word. They come like a cloud, drop it off here, and go. That is how their devotion is, the devotees from foreign countries. Therefore, you don’t have to think at all (about this). The right type of progress has to be done for the hospital. This (new one) would be retained as 'General Hospital'. Then there (in Whitefield) would be 'Mother and Child Hospital'.

Then for bone and liver: one liver specialist came from America. He did so many liver transplant operations. He came yesterday to our hospital and he said, "Swami, I will stay here and do liver transplant operations." When he said he wll do it, will I refuse? I am always ready for good. I said, "Without fail, do it!"

In the very beginning, I said that children should have education. If children don’t have education, it is no use. I started education for all the children in the villages. After that, water is needed. For water, if some small pipes are installed and borewells are put in, it is seen that even in these borewells there also is more fluoride. That is not the right type of water.

Thinking we do not want (water) like that, I also had it brought from Krishna River. Where is Anantapur and where is Krishna River? No matter how many crores it is, OK. I spent it and I had it brought. I had pure water brought. In the same way, the Chief Minister requested that water supply should be given to Bellary, Beedar, and Bijapur (places in Karnataka). (There) also there is great difficulty. I said that I would do it. I accepted.

Wherever there is no water, they should all be given water. We don’t need to give any big amounts of money. If people are given a little water, they will all obtain health. To give that water also, many people are coming as obstacles. Aren’t there so many very rich people in the country? Aren’t there so many rich people? What is the use? At the time they die, they will not take even a handful of soil with them!

But today there is no man at all with steady feelings. Whenever one looks, the mind is like a crazy monkey, jumping up and jumping down. That is not our Self. Mind is not our Self. We are not the body.

When those two are kept, any amount can be achieved. These differences are not anywhere in the Sai Organization. So many sevaks are coming here and doing seva in the Sai Organization. Here, in the Super Speciality Hospital, every day 100 people are coming and serving. That spirit of sacrifice should also start in the youth of today. As they grow, the spirit of sacrifice should also continue growing.

I am hoping and blessing (this) and ending My Discourse.