Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

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Kingdom of God - Fifth Kingdom of Nature
Creation disappeared from existence in the form of a tree and reappeared
in the form of an animal. Again Creation disappeared from being
in the form of an animal and reappeared as a human being. In that
evolutionary series, one should disappear from being as a human being
and reappear only as God. The upward evolution is from a mineral
to a tree, from a tree to an animal, from an animal to a human being,
from a human being to a Divine, each stage improving and learning
from its previous state.
Thus, today, if man can rise to greater heights, he will become a Divine
being, but if he slips lower down, he will become an animal. You should
always try and take the path of promotion and not demotion. In every
human being, the aspect of Divinity is present. The aspect of Atman is
much closer to you than all friends and relations. This kind of consciousness
in regard to the relationship of the Atman to you should be
promoted. All your ideas should be so refined that they are not narrow
but broad. You should not take the view by which you are concerned
only with your family, your home and your self. This will be too narrow
an approach to life. Your ideas should be so broadened that you move
from home to one village, from one village to one district, from one district
to one province, from the province to the country and from the
country to the world.
In the same manner, in your meditation, you should broaden it so that
you regard the spiritual light which is present in yourselves as the
same spiritual light, which is present in everyone else and that is the
same spiritual light which is present everywhere in the universe. By
that feeling, you will be able to broaden your ideas and realize the
meaning of the statement that there is only one truth and that this one
truth is being seen by many people in different forms You are always
looking at things which keep on changing. You are looking at creation
which is not permanent, and you make the mistake of identifying such
creation with Divinity. You do not realize the truth. (37-178/179)
There are grades, slowly passing from one to the other, from the less
intelligent to the fully intelligent. In fact, there are three grades and not
two.
1. This grade is what Christ referred as the kingdom of God. It is
far, far beyond the reach of mind. It is the realm of pure equanimity,
the everlasting glory of the Divine.