Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

form and will have on effect on the mind. Without transformation of
mind, any change in the body is not sufficient. The change of mind today
is very necessary. (37-106/107)
It is true that today Westerners have made considerable progress in
science and are acquiring mastery over the material world. In spite of
all that, they are not able to give any reply to the challenges posed by
the sacred texts. Because you have such total belief in wordly experience
and things that are based on such experience, you are unable to
know yourselves. Every individual thinks that he has achieved some
great things and such achivements are used for the purpose of proclaiming
his own greatness and to enhance his own reputation. Truly,
without using your strength and your intelligence in the right direction,
you want to use them for the purpose of selfishly proclaiming your own
greatness. You should undertake to promote the total good, the good
of the community in a selfless manner with love and love. (37-113/114)
The cry of equality now being used as a slogan is a vain and meaningless
cry; for, how can men, inheriting a multiplicity of impulses,
skills, qualities, tendencies, attitudes, and even diseases from their ancestors
and from their past be all of the same stamp? And in spite of
all this advertisement for supposed equality, you find more misunderstandings
and factions now than at any previous period of history.
Those who promote inequality are those who most loudly proclaim this
modern doctrine of equality. 2.8.63, (17-32/33)
Those, who are trying to build the human community on a foundation
of wealth are building on sand; those are who seek to build it on the
rock of righteousness are the wise.
People talk loud and long from all kinds of platforms about right conduct,
Divine love, peace, compassion, truth etc.; this gets published in
the newspaper next day and there their purpose ends. The paper of
today is waste paper tomorrow! It is used for packing, thrown into the
dust-heap, and burnt as refuse. That is the story of all platform professions.
Put into practice a fraction of what you preach.
Just as the body is the house you live in, the world is the body of God.
An ant biting the little finger of your foot is able to draw your attention
to the spot, and you react to the pain, making an effort to remove the
tiny enemy. You must similarly feel the pain, misery or joy or elation,
wherever it is evinced in the entire land; you must make an effort to
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