Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

alone accepts all these three doctrines. In this context of believing that
karma is responsible for rebirth, you might wonder as to what karma
God should have performed to be born as a human being. Just as for
man's birth, his good and bad karma is responsible; so also for God to
take birth as a human being, there have to be good and bad circumstances.
There is an important distinction that is to be noted here. If
man has done good or bad, the consequences will apply only to him.
The aspect of Avatar is not exactly like that. The bad work done by bad
people and the good work done by good people are both causes for
an Avatar God coming in the human form. (...)
The Lord takes a human form for the karma done by others. He takes
such a form out of his own free will. (37-26/27)
Every human being is born in karma, he grows in karma and gets liberation
from karma. In fact to everyone, work is God and work is the
cause of his sorrow and of his pleasure. In this world, all sorrows are
caused by man's work alone. (37-84)
"From this world which is untrue, lead me to truth. From this darkness
of ignorance, Iead me to light. From death, lead me to immortality."
What does that mean here? Death here means moving to rebirth and
immortality means freedom from rebirth, What is the way to immortality?
Removal of mortality is the only way to immortality. (37-184)
The accumulation of the effects of your past karma are stored and out
of that store what you have selected for present consumption; if wisely
used and cooked, karma can be made sweet, palatable and healthgiving.
Moreover, God's grace can destroy the effects of past karma
or modify its rigour. Never doubt that.
If the law of karma is so unbreakable, then why recommend spiritual
discipline, good living and cultivation of virtue? Karma will melt like
mist before the sun if you win the grace of the Lord! The grace of the
Lord is needed for the dawn of wisdom also. 30.9.60, (15-200)
The law of karma is not an iron law; by dedication, by purification,
which invites benediction, its effects can be modified, and its rigour
mitigated. Do not despair; do not lose heart. When vices hold sway
over your heart it becomes foul and sooty. The flames of desire, anger
and greed char the heart. Grace is proved by the quenching of these
flames. Grace confers bliss, which desire, anger and greed can never
confer. 10.4.65, (18-399)
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