Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

There are in this huge gathering people speaking many languages.
Each one man understand only his language, and wants to be spoken
to in that language. But, there is a language of the heart, which all can
understand and all would like to hear. That is the language which I
speak, the language that goes from my heart to yours. When heart
speaks to heart, it is love that is transmitted, without any reservation.
15.5.69, (21-45)
The word Hindu means those who keep away from the path of violence,
away of from inflicting injury on others; hin (hinsa-injury, violence); dhu
(dhura-away, distant). The Vedas declare that (...) merit grows when
you do good to another; sin is when you do evil to another. When you
are fixed on this path you will welcome all faiths and religions as, kith
and kin; all faiths attempt to train man along this path Muslims, Christians,
Buddhists, Jews, Parsis all aspire to win the same illumination,
through the cleansing of the mind by means of good works. (...)
So, chronologically as well as logically, the inference is correct, that
the Veda religion is the grandfather, Buddhism is the son, Christianity
the grandson, and Islam the great-grandson. If there is any misunderstanding
between them it is but a family affair. The ancestral property
of which all are sharers is the same. 14.10.69, (21-116/117)
Religion aims at the removal of hatred and enmity between the children
of God; but, you find religions engaged in conflict! Language is
the medium to cement friendships, to promote cordiality and bring people
nearer each other by loving conversation and sympathetic talk; but,
it has become a mortal weapon! Temples are not the abodes of peace:
they are institutions for which people engage in combat! Brother fights
against brother. 1.2.70, (21-202)
He whom Christ announced. Religions arise from the minds of good
men, who crave to make all men good; they strive to eliminate evil and
cure the bad. They religions are many, since they have to be adjusted
to individuals, their activities, their professions and roles, their character
and characteristics. The individual has to start observing the limits
and laws laid down, and derive joy and strength thereby. And, then, his
cleansed mind will lead the way, to higher and higher stages, from
which he and society of which he is a unit will benefit.
It is therefore appropriate to celebrate the birthday of Jesus, who
strove to save mankind, but the celebration must take the form of ad-
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