Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

takes it up in her arms. Her stoop is not to be described as a “coming
down”. If you earn the necessary credentials, the Avatar will come and
save you. If, on the other hand, you multiply your demerits and descend
lower and lower, how can you be saved? Have love and Divine
bliss in your heart. Bliss comes from pure sight, pure hearing, pure
speech and pure actions.
The day you establish yourselves in this bliss, that day will be my Birthday
for you. Sai's Birthday is being celebrated at Puttaparthi because
so many thousands come here from far-off places, in spite of the expense
and great difficulty during the journey. Do not be under the impression
that because it is Sai's Birthday, therefore you must come.
I have no desire to have my Birthday celebrated; such trivial thoughts
can never enter me. My only desire is to share my bliss with you, to encourage
you to lead lives full of bliss. My Birthday is when you get bliss.
My mission is: "May all the worlds be happy and prosperous." Become
aware of the unity of mankind; promote by love and service the joy and
contentment of every one on earth and fill your hearts with that yearning.
Then it becomes, verily, the Sai temple. From that moment I am
where you are. 23.11.78, (24-229)
After the long pilgrimage to the shrines and holy spots of Bharata,
Rama had a few years, until he was aged fourteen, of apparent introspection
and solitude. He disliked food and regal apparel. He was not
interested in materials and men. He waved his fingers and palms for
no clear reason; he wrote on the air only he knew what. He laughed
without reason. In short, his actions and movements were exactly the
same as when I was in my early teens. The Rishi Vashistha attempted
to bring his mind back to normalcy, but that was only a stage which all
Avatars are in, before they enter upon the task for which they have
come down. Those years, the Avatar was designing his Master plan.
25.3.80, (25-19/20)
It is not by plans of one kind or the other that the world can be bettered.
It is only when a spiritual revolution takes place in man that the prosperity
and welfare of the world can be achieved. If the mind of man is
not reformed and purified, all plans to reform the world will be futile.
23.11.80, (25-59)
The meaning of Avatar is this: to save mankind, God out of his love,
affection and compassion, comes down to the level of man and arouses
the Divine consciousness in man. He makes man aware of him in
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