Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Earn Divine grace, that is the crucial gain. The hospitals can be closed,
especially if the spiritual discipline used for gaining the grace of God
or results in simple lives, spent in contentment and undisturbed calm.
18.10.63, (17-82/83)
I am surprised that you read out a welcome address to me and extolled
me as “Embodiment of wisdom”, “Embodiment of love”, etc. I must tell
you that I am no stranger and therefore need no welcome. I am no
stranger anywhere, much less here, of all places where I took birth. I
belong to you; I am very near to you. Besides, I do not like this praise,
for praise places you at some distance, whereas I take delight in being
with you, beside you, around you. No father likes his children to praise
him! No son approachest hes father with a welcome address, in which
his scholarship, wealth, strength, virtues are listed and extolled. Kinship
evokes kindliness; there is no need or chance for formal ceremonial
behaviour. (...)
You gave me this garland of flowers when I came; but, I would have
been glad if you, every one of you, had become a fragrant flower, free
from insect pests of vice and wickedness, strung on the thread of devotion
to God. That means, you must be united and of one mind, free
from hatred and spite, factionalism and greed. 20.10.63, (17-85/86)
You do not now realise your good luck in getting me as Guide. I shall
not rest until I reform all of you. The basement for my work has been
completed: now, the structure will rise upon it. I go round the whole
world alone, with no paraphernalia and no publicity, because I am established
in my own glory, in my own truth. I have atmic relationship
with all, and so I am always successful. 22.10.63, (17-99)
I live on the bliss that you derive when you sing the name and glorify
the form of the Lord. That is my food, my daily sustenance. So, I have
no need to talk to you; it is sufficient if I sit here and draw in the bliss
that you feel when you are singing the glory of God. 6.12.63, (17-125)
Krishna was the Avatar (Incarnation of Vishnu) come to destroy evil;
but now, the evil is not identifiable in certain persons alone; it is widespread.
The scorpion has poison only in its tail; the cobra only in its
fangs; but, man has poison all over! He has in his eye, his tongue, his
mind, his intelligence, his gait, his brain - everywhere. You may ask:
“O when will this poison be counteracted and destroyed?” It will disap-
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