Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

devotion towards the Lord, but they do not pause to inquire whether
the Lord has love towards them! People who pine to discover this are
rather rare. That is really the true measure of spiritual success. (...)
Righteousness is the moral path; the moral path is light; light is bliss.
Righteousness is characterised by holiness, peace, truth and fortitude.
Righteousness is yoga, union, merging; it is truth. Its attributes are justice,
sense-control, sense of honour, love, dignity, goodness, sympathy,
non-violence; such is righteousness that persists through the ages.
It leads one on to universal love and unity. It is the highest
discipline and the most profitable. All this “unfoldment” began with
righteousness; all this is stabilised by truth; truth is inseparable from
righteousness. Truth is the law of the universe, which makes the sun
and the moon revolve in their orbits. Divine law is the Vedas and the
mantras, the wisdom they convey. Righteousness is the course, the
path, the law. Wherever there is adherence to morality, there one can
see right conduct in action. (...)
Divine law is the very embodiment of the Lord; since the world itself is
the body of the Lord, the world is but another name for the moral order;
no one can deny it now or ever. (8- 15/20)
The principles of Divine law will not change to suit the convenience of
man. Divine law is immutable. Divine law persists as Divine law, then,
now and forever. Of course, the practices and rules of applied right
conduct might change according to changing causes; but, even then,
those practices have to be tested on the basis of the sacred text, not
on the basis of advantage. There should be no such calculation. (...)
Here, one point has to be clearly grasped. Many who read the Bhagavadgita
take it that the Lord incarnates when Divine law is destroyed
and when the evil forces begin to prevail. But there is no basis to draw
the conclusion that Divine law gets destroyed. The Bhagavadgita does
not say so. The word that is used is "glaani"; that is to say, when the
indications are that Divine order is in danger: "I will come in order to
protect it from harm". He did not say that he will come down to protect
it and preserve it after Divine law itself has been destroyed! Of what
use is a doctor after life has left? So too, after Divine law, which is the
very life-breath of humanity, has been destroyed, what is the need for
incarnation of the Lord? What is the Lord to protect? This is why the
word “glaani” is used to indicate, not the destruction, but the decline,
the weakening of Divine law. The protection of Divine law is the task
of the Lord, for Divine law is the very breath of the living being.
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