Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

In fact, the desire to know God, to love God and be loved by God is
not a desire which binds. When awareness of God dawns in all its
splendour, every worldly, sensual desire is reduced to ashes in the
flames of that awareness. The individual self will turn towards the universal
self as soon as desire comes to on end, and delights in supreme
peace. The self must break off all contact with non-self so that it can
earn immortality. (7-23)
If therefore, you are imagining that God is like this or like that, it is not
correct. You cannot describe God and all your attempts will fail. It is
much better to make your mind clear and clean, fill it with love and devotion
and that will enable you to have the true vision of God. (35-257)
A day will come when even the most haughty, the most wilful, the most
unbelieving and even those who assert that there is no joy or peace in
the contemplation of the highest self will have to pray: "God, grant me
peace, grant me consolation, strength and joy." 7.2.59, (15-118)
I do not consider intellectual scholarship as very essential for the spiritual
aspirant. I advise you to develop bliss, not through these difficult
and even doubtful means, but through the cultivation of love, which begins
in the home and family and spreads to all creatures. Put down the
sharp-edged weapon that seeks to analyse and chop the arguments
of the opponent, to cut his point of view to pieces. Take up the sweet
of love which spreads joy and wins over recalcitrant hearts.
That is my path, the path of love along which I shall take you. That is
why I offer my visiting card to every one of you when you come to me.
I know your name, your degrees, your profession, your status and your
history. But you do not know mine. I have no need to know all about
you from a perusal of your cards; but I want you to know something of
my glory; and so I give you a glimpse of it, as a Divine miracle. But I
also give you enough of my love so that you can mix a little of it with
whatever you do or feel or think and make it sweet and palatable.
12.4.59, (15-124)
Atman is the ocean, nature is just a wave of that vast ageless, boundless
ocean and the living being is just a drop of that wave. You cannot
give up the wave or the sea. You can only merge the name and form
of the drop. Once you enter the depths of the sea, it is all calm, it is all
peace; agitation, noise, confusion - all are only on the outer layers. So
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