Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

utilise the temples existing all over the country. This "Temple construction
scheme" has become a profitable spiritual business. People go
about with lists of likely victims and squeeze donations out of them in
my name. In this business, a great deal of backbiting, malice, envy and
greed are generated and it ends with factions blaming each other in
every place. Why go about doing Meher or Haranath publicity? Pushing
your master's name forward easily degenerates into tarnishing the
name of the other man's guru or God and this leads to defaming both
master and disciple.
Do not believe if any one comes to you and declares: "Sathya Sai Baba
came to me in my dream and commissioned me to do publicity for him.
Please help me as far as you can". I do not commission any one for
such work, either in dream or while he is awake. Such men are cheats;
treat them as such, without mercy. There are others who show you
something and say: "Sathya Sai Baba likes me a lot; he gave me this,"
and then, they beg for help. This is an insult to the Divine principle itself.
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The beaming joy on the faces of this vast multitude is the food that I
live upon; I am refreshed when you are happy and content. My thirst
is quenched by the joy which lights up your eyes. Your bliss is my food.
I do not feel like talking to you at all, for I desire only to communicate
to you my joy and to get into communion with your joy. This mutual fulfillment
is the essential thing; talking and listening are subsidiary.
26.3.65, (18-332)
Indescribable joy and glory come within the reach of man when the
Universal Immanent Principle decides to assume human form. You
are all standing in the scorching sun for hours and so, you can realise
what it is to be offered a cool drink when you get parched in the heat.
The Avatar comes to offer this cool comforting drink to parched humanity.
Mere repetition of the words, truth, righteousness, peace and
love will not quench the thirst; the words rice, curry and soup will not
satisfy hunger. How can you get bliss from words? Practice them, that
is the message that the Avatar brings, with all the authority that it can
wield. What you have heard and seen must be spoken out, without exaggeration
or abridgement; that is truth or truth-speaking. Of course,
when the mind is controlled, the intelligence is sharpened and purified;
you see only the one everywhere, in everything, at all times; then that
one becomes the only truth, which you see, hear and speak of - for,
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