Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

formed from the five primordial elements (...) has been projected by
the Divine will. It is a consequence of the will of God, which is the
cause. No consequence can happen without a preceding cause. The
cause has, however, two aspects, the material cause and the effective
cause. (...)
God is the material cause of creation, of the cosmos, the universe. He
is the substance. He is the effective cause. He is both transcendental
and phenomenal, both being and becoming. As silver in the cup, the
cosmos is all God. He has been manifesting himself as all this. He has
willed to become all this. In every thing he is immanent. In the absence
of this highest truth, nothing can exist. Each one is sustained by the
all-comprehensive reality. This wondrous mystery is beyond man's
grasp. His intelligence cannot unravel it. (...)
Correct vision makes him see the one in the many. It reveals unity in
diversity, and confers supreme delight, for he becomes aware of the
one immanent in the multiplicity, the supreme truth. Liberation is the
realization of this awareness, this achievement of Brahma-hood. Each
and every living being has to attain this consummation, this goal, Brahman.
That is its true destination. Some day or other, the urge to win
release from the shackles of grief and joy and the bonds of "I" and
"mine", will awaken and emerge. The path that is taken then inevitably
leads to liberation. Seeking that path is the sign of the intelligent person.
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Sleep is very necessary for every living being. Without sleep, man as
well as other beings cannot live. Of all the joys that the world provides,
sleep is the most rewarding. All the rest are arid and dry, trivial and
wasteful. When a living being sleeps, the five vital airs do function
along with the five fires in the body conferring warmth. The breathing
consecrated fire perpetually burning like the flame on the altar in the
shrine room. It energises you in the same steady manner. (...)
The breathing (prana) helps the mind to "reach the region of Brahma
which the person has earned by his karma." In other words, it enables
the person to experience the taste of mergence with God. For, that
which rests in sleep, is happy during sleep, is refreshed by sleep and
derives bliss while sleeping is the living being, the embodied Atman.
The living being is the deity enshrined in the body, its temple. The living
being experiences all that is seen, heard and contacted by the mind in
the outer world, as well as the impact of all that it could not see, hear
or contact by the mind. Besides these, the living being might construct
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