Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

all this is the Divine." This is the inner mystery of incarnation, God incarnating
in all! All are one; the one is all.
There is only one God; he is omnipresent. There is only one religion,
the Religion of love; there is only one caste, the caste of humanity;
there is only one language, the language of the heart. 24.12.72, (22-
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Who can affirm that God is this or thus? Who can affirm that God is not
of this form or with this attribute? Each one can acquire from the vast
expanse of the ocean only as much as can be contained in the vessel
he carries to its shore. From that quantity, they can grasp but little of
that immensity. (...)
Each religion forgets that God is all forms and all names, all attributes
and all assertions. The Religion of humanity is the sum and substance
of all these partial faiths; for, there is only one religion and that is the
religion of love. 19.6.74, (23-88)
The Veda religion has been teaching since ages the message of the
spirit and the means to gain and ensure equanimity and joy. It has
stood forth as the preceptor of the world for centuries. The prayer that
it taught is: “May all people everywhere be happy”. This is the consummation
of Veda thought since time immemorial. Such wholesome ideals
were propagated and fostered by the rulers of this land, the seers
and God-centred persons who guided the populace, and the chaste
mothers who reared generations in the atmosphere of spiritual effort.
But due to vicissitudes in the country's history, when people were subjected
to pressures and counter-pressures, these ideals suffered a set
back. (...)
The goal, the purpose, the key, the essence of all creeds, faiths and
religions is just this: The sublimation of the mind of man to guarantee
liberation for the individual concerned and happiness for the society of
which he is a unit. Principles and practices have grouped around this
prime need, and various creeds are the result.
Religions attempt to plant holy ideals in the heart of man but man does
not allow them to sprout and grow. His egoistic craving for power and
competitive success has, in most cases, persuaded him to use religion
as an instrument of torture and persecution. Instead of uniting mankind
in a common endeavour, it has become a system of walled enclosures,
guarded by hate and fanaticism. So each religion is an armed camp
sunk in self-grandizement, trying to persuade others into itself and pre-
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