Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Unless you brighten your vision with love, you cannot see the truth.
Love helps you to see God in everyone, everyone as Divine. The universe
is not false, it is not a trap; it is the splendour of God, his reflection.
He reflected and the universe happened! It is his own substance,
manifesting as multiplicity, as latent or potent energy or matter. When
activity is in accordance with awareness and awareness is befogged
or belittled, dried up or deluded, then, righteousness is descendent,
and the Avatar appears among men! 13.8.71, (22-66)
For a world pursuing ever-receding happiness and peace and, as a
consequence, blinded by the fog of disappointment and disease, the
Divine is the pillar of light, that indicates the path to progress. Man has
inherited this realm of work, this world which is but a vast factory,
where he himself is fashioned from manhood to Godhood, if only he
applies his energy and skill, diligently to the transformation. Man must
work, every moment of his life; he cannot avoid this burden. His very
existence depends upon action, exertion, work. And, work results in either
good or had, big or small; powerful or paltry. So, man has to be
active on the right lines, in order to avoid evil and pain. That is the duty
he owes to himself. 2.1.72, (22-93)
This meeting began with a prayer. Good. But, prayer for some benefit
or gain should not be addressed to God. For, it means that God waits
until he is asked! Surrender to him; he will deal with you as he feels
best and it would be best for you. God does not dole out grace in proportion
to the praise he receives! When you pray for a thing from God,
you run the risk of condemning him if for some reason the prayer is not
answered the way you wanted it to be, or as quickly as you wanted it
to be. This contingency arises because you feel that God is an outsider,
staying in some heaven, or holy spot, fare away from you. God is
in you, God is in every word of yours, every deed and thought. Speak,
do and think as befits him. Do the duty that he has allotted to the best
of your ability, and to the satisfaction of your conscience. That is the
most rewarding worship.
When you stand before another, his image is in your eye, and your image
is in his; haven’t you observed this? You are in me, I am in you,
that is the truth this phenomenon proclaims. When you have faith in
this, and when you cultivate love, humility, reverence for life, and tolerance,
you are on the right path. When you are not on this path, that
is to say, when you are travelling left, you are certainly left out, when
it is a question of sharing Divine grace. April 1973, (22-228/229)
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