Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

also in the innermost recesses of the heart, there is a reservoir of
peace where you must take refuge. 27.9.60, (15-175)
God draws the living being towards itself; it is the nature of both to have
this affinity; for they are the same. They are like the iron and the magnet.
But if the iron is dusty and covered with layers of dirt, the magnet
is unable to attract. Remove the impediment; that is all you have to do.
Shine forth in your real nature and the Lord will draw you into his bosom.
Trials and tribulations are the means by which this cleansing is
done. (...)
God is not involved in either rewards or punishments. He only reflects,
echoes and reacts! He is the eternal unaffected witness! You decide
your own fate. Even creation, protection and destruction follow the
same law, the innate law of the illusion-controlled universe. (27-
77+79)
Activity is based on wisdom, the wisdom that all is one. Let the action
be suffused with devotion; that is to say, humility, love, sympathy and
non-violence. Let devotion be filled with wisdom; otherwise, it will be
as light as a balloon, which drifts along any current of air, or gust of
wind. Mere wisdom will make the heart dry; devotion makes it soft with
sympathy and activity gives the hands something to do, something
which will sanctify every one of the minutes that have fallen to your lot
to live here. 7.7.63, (17-29)
The Lord rushes towards the devotee faster than the devotee rushes
towards him. If you take one step towards him, he takes a hundred
steps towards you! He will be more than a mother or father. He will foster
you from within you, as he has saved and fostered so many saints
who have placed faith in him. 8.9.63, (17-63)
If you do not serve man, who is your kith and kin, with the same feelings,
impulses and instincts as you, who is before you, alive and gladly
accepting with a smile of gratitude, how can you serve God, who is so
far above and beyond you, so different and distant, so potent and mysterious?
Train yourselves to serve God by serving man, in whom God
is installed in the heart. Convince yourselves that the service of man
is worship of God. If you send away some one who runs towards your
house for shelter from the rain back into the open street, you are inhuman,
to say the least; if you do not do all that lies within your power to
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