Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

of sequence and negation, and are striving to resuscitate Divine law
which alone can confer prosperity and peace on the world. If the annihilation
of something is causing injury to something else, the only
method for the regeneration of the latter is the revival of the former.
Isn't this principle universally acceptable and applicable? We notice
that the decline of Divine commands has caused the destruction of
world peace. When we plan to bring about prosperity and peace to the
world, isn't it your paramount duty to restore this Divine law? (...)
Resolve to engage yourself in the task of promoting the welfare of the
world; be assured that Sai will be your unfailing support. 14.1.74, (23-
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What has sociology or the social sciences to do with the sciences of
the spirit or the inquiry into the human spirit? This is a question that is
commonly raised. So many ask: “What has the spiritual student and
spiritual aspirant to do with society and its problems?”
No society can find its fulfillment, no social ideal can fructify, without
the blossoming of the spirit of man. Mankind cannot realise his Divine
whose expression, without careful and constant attention paid to the
cultivation of the spirit. How else can Divinity express itself other than
in and through individuals? You can apprehend only the world of
change, this moving, inconstant fantasia; you cannot see or hear,
smell or taste or touch the director of the fantasia, God. In the same
manner, you can apprehend the individual, but not the entity named
society. Society is not a separate, distinct, complex formed of elemental
components. Society is Divine proliferation produced by supreme
will.
Man is mortal; dust he is and to dust returns. But in him, shines Atman,
a spark of the immortal flame. This is not a term of flattery invented by
the Vedas, the Atman is the source, the sustenance of every being and
every organization of beings. It is the one and only source, substance
and sustenance. Atman is God; the particular is the Universal, no less.
Recognise in each being, in each man, a brother, the child of God, and
ignore all limiting thoughts and prejudices based on status, colour,
class, birth and caste. Sai is ever engaged in warning you and guiding
you so that you may think, speak and act in this attitude of love.
Society cannot justify itself by planning to divide the spoils of nature either
in equal shares or unequal shares. The consummation that must
inspire society has to be the establishment and elaboration, in every
social act and resolution, of the knowledge of the one universal Atman
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