Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

awaken all the sweetness latent in you; when you have lasted the joy,
you can never for a moment exist without that sustenance. It becomes
as essential as air for the lungs. (...)
You suffer now because all your attachment is towards nature, and all
your non-attachment is towards God. This has to be reversed! You
must cultivate non-attachment towards nature and attachment to the
Lord! (...)
There is nothing so grand and so sublime as the Lord in whom you find
refuge. Call on him by any name or speak of him as the nameless one.
It is both, with form and formless. The ocean takes the form of the vessel
which contains a part of it. When that is done, the formless takes
form; the absolute is reduced to the particular. You will find out, however,
that all the joy is derived from the form-full aspect of God; the
formless causes no joy or grief; it is beyond all duality. Jewels give joy,
not Gold. You can experience the name, you can imbibe the form; you
can take them to heart and dwell upon them and fill yourself with the
joy that they evoke. That is why Jayadeva, Gouranga, Ramakrishna
and others wished to remain ants, tasting sugar rather than becoming
sugar itself. The name is like the seed, implanted in your heart; when
the shower of his grace falls upon it, it sprouts into a lovely tree. All
trees that sprout from the names are equally lovely and shady.
23.11.60, (16-7/11)
Expansion is life. Expansion is the essence of love. Love is God. Live
in love. That is the message I give you today. When a lamp is lit from
another, there are two, where there was but one. The first one did not
stop emitting light. You can light a million lamps from one; but, yet, the
first will not suffer a jot! Love too is like this. Share it with a million, it
will still be as bright as when it was alone. There is another lesson too,
which the illuminations on Dipavali-Day tend to teach. Each house in
the street lights a few lamps - rid keeps them on the door sill, the parapet
wall, the gate, the porch, the well-and, what is the effect? The
town is filled with light, the residents are happy, the children dance in
glee and the sky shines in the, glow of earthly joy. Light spreads; it mingles
with the light from other sources of light; it has no boundaries, no
prejudices, no favourites. You may not like your neighbour. But the
light from the lamp on your verandah shines hand in hand with the light
from the lamp on his verandah! You cannot keep it back!
Dipavali is intended to teach you this lesson of light and love; move
out, clasp, spread, expand, give up limits of mine and thine, his and
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