Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Spiritual Laws - Natural Laws
Natural calamities like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts and
floods are the result of disturbances in the balance of nature, caused
by reckless exploitation of natural resources. Mankind today, appears
like a foolish man who is wielding the axe at the branch of a tree on
which he is sitting. (13.2.97)
The countries of the world fall into two categories, countries where
people are devoted to activities with spiritual motivation and countries
where people pursue the pathways of the senses, with no higher purpose
to guide them. These categories emphasise the ideals of people
down the ages. In India, the people have discovered the proper goal
of all activity, namely the glorification of God, resident within and without.
Karma is inevitable; it is immanent in every thought. It is of two kinds:
material and spiritual, connected with this world and drawn from the
scriptural injunctions. Karma that merely sustains life is material. (...)
The word karma is short and crisp; it is used freely by all and sundry.
But, the idea and ideals it conveys are of great significance to mankind.
Karma is not simply physical; it is mental, verbal and manual.
Each one can read into it as much value and validity as his reason can
unravel.
Karma subsumes every activity of man - worldly, scriptural, and spiritual.
All three strands are, in truth, intertwined; worldly karma entails
merit or demerit; scriptural karma is saturated with the experience of
generations of good seekers; the spiritual devotees itself to the cleansing
of the heart so that the indwelling God may be reflected therein.
Karma is a stream that flows ever faster and faster turning the wheel
of life and keeping it incessantly active.
Karma means movement, or that which urges the movement. Air
moves in space; the moving air results in heat. It is the friction caused
by aerial motion that makes the latent heat manifest. Living beings are
able to maintain the temperature of the body, so long as air is breathed
in and out. The quicker the breath, the warmer the body. Warmth is the
characteristic of fire. Fire is the origin of water. The sun, as one can
see, raises clouds. The particles of water get mixed with other elements
and then harden into “earth” (ground soil). The earth produces
and fosters plants and trees, which feed and foster man and keep him
hale and hearty. These plants give the grain that man lives upon and
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