Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

him, when he finds him desperately searching outside of himself for
him who is his very core.
In order to enable you to reach the highest goal of merging with the Absolute,
this chance has been granted to you as a reward for merit acquired
in many previous lives. 24.12.80, (25-64)
This day, I am announcing an event which will give you great joy. Sai
is ever full of joy. Anxiety, grief and unrest cannot approach Sai, even
as near as millions of miles. Believe it or not, Sai does not have the
slightest experience of anxiety, for, Sai is ever aware of the formation
and transformation of objects and the antics of time and space and of
the incidents therein. Those who have no knowledge of these and
those who are affected by circumstances are affected by sorrow.
Those who are caught in the coils of time and space become the victims
of grief. Though Sai is involved in events conditioned by time and
space, Sai is ever established in the principle that is beyond both time
and space. Sai is not conditioned by time, place or circumstance.
8.10.81, (25-176)
You must be thinking about the gift you have to offer Swami on this
Birthday. You can be happy that you have given Swami a proper gift
only when you love your fellowmen, share their sufferings, and engage
yourselves in serving them. That is the only gift I wish for. The present
given to God has to be pure, steady and selfless love.
On this birthday I have only one desire. I am desiring this only to promote
your bliss. You are planning programmes for the coming 60th
Birthday. Even before the 60th birthday, you must adopt at least 6000
villages and improve them through proper means into ideal villages.
Rich people and people in power have plentiful servants. But the distressed,
the poverty-stricken, and those who suffer have no one to
serve them. Go to such people and be their friends, their kith and kin,
their closest well-wishers. Let them welcome you as such.
If you pour spirituality into the ears of those who are tortured by hunger,
it will not be assimilated. First, quench the hunger. Give them God
in the form of food. Give them God in the form of clothes. Give God in
the form of peace to those who are afflicted with anxiety. Give God in
the form of medicine to those who are suffering from ill health. Give
God in whatever form will assuage fear, pain and sorrow. It is only
when this is done that spirituality can soak into the heart. If you act contrariwise,
instead of spiritual feelings you will be promoting atheism.
126