Sai Inspires, 01.OCT.2019 Om Sri Sai Ram Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam – October 01, 2019 The Dasara festival honours the victory of the devas (God) over the asuras (demons) – the forces of righteousness over the forces of evil. They won because Parashakthi (the dynamic aspect of Divinity), the Power that has elaborated God into all this variety and beauty, came to give them succour and fight on their behalf. Holy company such as this helps to arouse the desire to know oneself, to know the true nature of the world around us and to know how to discover and experience the unity of both, expressed as the vedic dictum, ‘That-thou-art’. It is through the subtle influence of the company into which he was inducted that Narada, the son of a maid, was transformed into the foremost practitioner and exponent of Bhakti-marga (path of devotion); that Valmiki, a highway robber, was transmuted into a great sage and foremost amongst poets; and that many sinners were shown the path of repentance and redemption. – Divine Discourse, Sep 26, 1965 Sathya Sai Baba http://bit.ly/2FTXeXk #sathyasai #saibhakta #sathyasaibaba #saibaba #saimaa