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Develop a Relationship with Sai Element 4
The bee will hover around the flower, humming and droning until it seles down to drink the nectar from it. Once it has entered the flower and tastes the nectar it will hover, hum, and drone no more. It will have no extraneous thought to disturb its bliss. It will become so intoxicated with the bliss that it will not heed its own safety; for, when the petals close and the flower folds, it allows itself to be imprisoned inside the flower. Similarly, once the mind seles on the lotus feet of the embodiment of beauty and goodness, it can never more crave anything except the nectar of the lotus feet.
Sathya Sai Baba (Bhagavatha Vahini, chap. 32)
The only power great enough to tame and control the mind is the loving power of God.1
We need assistance in bringing the mind’s focus from the outer world of temporary gratification to the inner world of infinite peace where we find our own divinity. Many of us need an outer form to help redirect our focus. The outer form of God is like a boat that takes us over the rough waters of the
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