Today’s Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2018 What is the place we must accord to the spirit of sports and games in our daily living? Bhagawan describes the current world we are in and gently prods us on the right path. Popular cricket and tennis matches today involve several lakhs of rupees. As sports become business with no room for human values, peace becomes a casualty. Sports and athletics must be practiced with a sense of spiritual oneness, transcending differences of nationality, language and religion to experience good health, peace and bliss. Since time immemorial, sports and athletics were intended mainly to promote health and experience joy. Today these objectives are being forgotten and replaced with commercial motives and self-interests. People cherish body attachment, resulting in one’s outlook being very narrow and limited. Consequently, peace and happiness are lost. In every action in your daily living, you should be sportive and cooperative with unity and harmony. You must recognise that the indwelling Spirit (Atma) is one and the same in all beings and develop the spirit of oneness and equality. Then the Divinity present within you will be manifested and your human nature will become divine. (Divine Discourse, Jan 14, 1990) What lends beauty to sports and games is the spirit of unity with which the participants play in them eschewing feelings of envy and hatred.- Sathya Sai Baba www.sathyasai.org #sathyasai #saibhakta