PREMA JYOTHI - Newsletter of the Prema Trust and Sacred Earth Community – December 2025
Fill the heart with Love, then the words coming out of the heart will be full of vitality and power. There is no shakti (power) more effective than Prema (love). Sathya Sai Baba
Kia Ora Koutou. Last year we shared a newsletter on self-love with you (February 2024). Self-love being a prerequisite of experience Divine Love. Loving oneself is important, yet beyond that inner process there is an outer expression of Love that connects us to all creation. Take the Love deeper and we find that we are that Love that birthed everything. The Human Value – Love encompasses all the aspects of being, from the individual to the universal. In our lives, Love appears in many forms. It is worth exploring these and how they relate to the universality of Love.
Mother’s Love
This is the first love that most people experience. It is the first natural and nurturing and begins when we are conceived. There is a much research that has uncovered the importance of the time spent in the womb and how this shapes the life to follow. Hormonal changes have been mapped, and it seems that these chemical messengers and catalysts have a profound task of translating the love of a mother into human anatomy and physiology. One of the most potent of these hormones is called oxytocin. It not only helps the birthing process but has been found to affect moods as well as well-being. It also is involved in nurturing, breastfeeding and social bonding. This is one small example of the importance of those nine months spent in the womb, our first experience of love.
Mother’s love is not only nurturing, but protective. Countless examples exist in the animal world of the fierce protective capacity of mothers when their offspring are threatened. In cultures where the Mother is worshipped and revered, She is often depicted in a fearsome form. Mother Durga in the Indian tradition is a very apt example, where she appears with a sword and other weapons, riding a tiger, but always smiling, always loving at the same time. Those who are orphaned, or have never experienced the love of a mother, have been studied and found to have deep trauma, often feel insecure and have other psychological symptoms that manifest. That nurturing and protective love of the mother plays a critical role in how we are in life.
Self-Love
As stated, this topic has been articulated in the Feb 24 newsletter. One sentence from that newsletter sums it up. Self-love means that you accept yourself fully, treat yourself with kindness and respect, and nurture your growth and wellbeing.
Societal Love
There is a collective love that encompasses the society we live in and, when matured flows out to all societies, all cultures. When fully flourishing, this form of love can transform peoples and nations. Recently, I have watched a video that is both inspirational, instructive and heart-warming. It can be found on You Tube, with the title being Why Bhutan is Building the Anti-Dubai. It offers a vision of what I would term societal love in action, where a new city is an emergent prototype of how we could all live harmoniously, peacefully and lovingly.
A society that is built on economic growth is bound to fail, for such growth is vulnerable to environmental disaster, global pandemics and social disorder. This is not a theory; this is a reality that is unfolding before our very eyes. Potentially, a society built on the abiding principle of Love can be resilient to the above disruptive influences, for it would rely on the inherent love and humanity of its members.
Love as Service to All
In such a society that values kindness and love, the collective becomes more important than the individual. Our world has been seduced by the idea that we need to focus on our own success (mostly material) rather than the collective good. This has meant that there are many people across this planet who are attempting to survive on less and less, whilst others accumulate more and more wealth, so much so that the wealth in society becomes locked away from the collective and the people that have next to nothing. This situation demands of us that we express our love through service to others.
However, there is a trap with any desire to serve. Often, in service projects, the factor being served is not the recipient of the gift that is being given, but the ego. Developing even a modicum of selflessness will enhance the act of serving and sow the seeds of Love through the purity of our intention.
Loving Nature
Strangely, for a world that is obsessed with observing nature (e.g. the popularity of nature shows on television), little consideration is given to preserving the very nature we profess to love. Loving nature is being fully engaged in interacting (with care) with all the facets of nature. Mother Earth nurtures all her children, but we humans are the only daughters and sons that abuse that love that she showers on us. We may say we love nature, but it is when we fully realise our oneness with all that exists around us, that we come to the place where love flows freely between ourselves and this beautiful planet.
Divine Love
“This creation arose from Love, is sustained by Love and will return to Love in the end. But this cycle is not just at the beginning and the end of it all. The cycle is inherent in each moment of time, in each atom that occupies space. Love is constantly birthing itself, sustaining itself and dissolving itself. That is the ultimate understanding, the ultimate knowledge. All teachings arise from That.
The Vedas were born from That Love and the sounds were implanted in the minds of the Rishis (sages). From those sounds arose understanding of the laws of creation. In the beginning AUM, the sound. In the end AUM, the sound. What is AUM. A- connotes the birth, the coming into being. It should arise from the belly. U- connotes sustenance, the maintaining principle. It should resound in the chest – in the Heart. M- connotes dissolution – the return to the silence of Oneness, the pure consciousness. It should recede out of the crown of the head. Silence – is the stillness of the Brahman, the One beyond even any notion of consciousness. That One is Pure Love. That One I am. That One you are.”
Sathya Sai Baba (inner message)
What profundity is in those words. It is often said ‘God is Love’. When I was growing up, I took that to mean that God was our loving father. After living with Sai for almost 50 years, I realise that it does not mean that at all. Whilst there might be a father-child relationship with God in the beginning, we grow under the tutelage of Love and find that there is no separation between us and God. In fact, even the notion of a God now become superfluous, for all is God, all is One, all is Love.
A Story of Divine Love
Sai Helps a Heavy Smoker
The late Dr Sara Pavan relates:
“As a successful surgeon in one of Sydney's best hospitals, believe it or not, I was also a hopelessly heavy smoker and smoked 30 cigarettes a day for 25 years, even lighting my first cigarette before getting out of bed. Such was my addiction to smoking and I had never been able to quit this evil habit. I experienced Baba’s Divine Love, His Parama Prema, on 30th March 1980. Bhagavan appeared in my dream for the first time In the dream Baba was wearing a white robe, seated in an armchair. As I bowed before Him, cigarette butts and ash started pouring out from my shirt pocket and piled up at His Lotus Feet.”
“Embarrassed, I looked up at Baba, Who, with profound love and acceptance, without a spoken word, conveyed to me deep within my heart of hearts: “Notwithstanding all this filth, I still love you.” Because of this dream I decided to skip cigarettes for the day and place all my cravings at His Feet. I began smelling whiffs of sweet jasmine, even in the operating theatre. Days passed with no cravings and the sweetness intensified. Within a week I was enveloped all day with the intense, hypnotic fragrance of the sacred flower. This mystical experience continued for 9 months until my first interview with Baba on 28th December 1980. Swami had created the smell of jasmine to shield me from the poisonous breath of cigarettes. There are no limits for Parama Prema (supreme love). Grace follows divine Love.”
Dr Pavan to Lyn K, transcribed for No Country, No Name Feb. 2010
When we come to find that, deep inside us lies the Love that we are seeking, we come into the experience of Divine Love. We come to realise that we are Love. We don’t have to try to express that Love in our lives, we are one with that Love. It expresses automatically with no thought. Naturally we grow into that realisation as we progress, learn and begin to experience the opening of the Heart.
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WORKSHOP SERIES
iN 2026, We are offering a series of day events that draw upon the ancient wisdom of the Himalayan Yoga Tradition to allow us to reorient our lives towards the freedom of the inner way. In these events we will explore the inner makeup of humans and how we can use that exploration to transform our lives and free ourselves from the tyranny of the outer, creating inner mastery and freedom.
The first workshop is at the end of January