Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Revelation
Remember that with every step, you are nearing God, and, God too,
when you take one step towards him, takes ten towards you. There is
no stopping place in this pilgrimage; it is one continuous journey,
through day and night; through valley and desert; through tears and
smiles, through death and birth, through tomb and womb. When the
road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled
only from himself to himself, that the way was long and lonesome,
but the God that led him unto it was all the while in him, around
him, with him, and beside him! He himself was always Divine. His
yearning to merge in God was but the sea calling to the ocean! Man
loves, because he is love! He craves for melody and harmony, because
he is melody and harmony. He seeks joy, for, he is joy. He thirsts
for God, for, he is composed of God, and he cannot exist without him.
God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering,
blooming or drooping. He is intelligence in the insect, faithfulness in
the dog, latent energy in the rock! 5.3.66, (21-3/4)
The body is a vehicle that even God aspire to possess. You know that
gods seek to come into human form so that they can utilise the intelligence,
discrimination, detachment etc., that the human body alone is
capable of exercising, to realise the ultimate reality, which when
known makes everything else known. The body with which the hospital
is concerned is the chariot of the individual resident, the master. It is
the castle from which one can fight against the foes of attachment and
egoism; it is the boat by which one can cross the sea of change and
chance. 15.10.66, (19-253)
Each religion exhorts those who are attracted by it to meditate on God
in a certain form known by a certain name; but one who is aware that
He is all names and all forms will adopt a sound which is profoundly
significant, which summarises all names, OM, unchanging, indestructible
sound. Through the changing to the unchanging, that is the journey.
There are three steps or stages in this journey. “I am yours"; “you
are mine" and, finally, "I am you”. Every devotee has to walk from one
to the other, and reach the journey's end. Move on, don't stop.
It is good to be born in a church, but it is not good to die in it. Grow and
rescue yourselves from the limits and regulations, the doctrines that
fence your freedom of thought, the ceremonials and rituals that restrict
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