Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

These are eternal truths; but, Indians themselves are losing faith in
them and they have started ridiculing them and refusing to practice
them. Such persons are insulting their own mother; mother and mother-country
have to be revered equally, according to the scriptures. You
honour the mother by obeying her and fulfilling her wishes, you honour
mother-country by paying heed to the age-long traditions and ideals
that have stood the test of time. No one honours a renegade. He condemns
himself by denying his country. 29.3.72, (22-103/105)
The world is one vast society. Every individual in it is part of this society,
bound to it by the love that draws man to man, to be kith and kin.
This love is deep in the heart of man, unrecognized, ignored, doubted,
denied, argued away. It is the secret source of all sympathy and service;
it creates the urge to live in and for society. It is the universal love,
that flows from one spark of the Divine to all sparks. When the eyes
shine illumined by the highest wisdom, they see all as the one. 4.2.73,
(22-181)
The whole world is one single tree; the different countries are its
branches; its root is God, human beings are the flowers. Happiness is
the fruit and the bliss of self-realization is the sweet juice therein.
How then can any one justify his anger against another man, or be jealous
on account of another? All are fed by the same sap; all share the
same sun; all are Divine. Divinity is not something separate and isolated,
which has to be earned by toil. It is inherent in every man, women
and child. 22.3.73, (22-203)
Many leaders at the present time have compassion, but, possess no
intelligence. They do not know how to solve the distress that they see
and sympathise with. They talk of the need to establish peace at home
and prosperity abroad; but, their acts betray their ignorance of the
means by which they could succeed. How can they succeed, if they
promote hatred and dishonesty? 24.3.73, (22-207)
The world today is like a school with no teacher, a temple with no idol,
a garden with no plants, a wire with no current. Of course people all
over the world strive to acquire power by accumulating wealth, authority
or knowledge, but unfortunately, along with these, the insidious evil
of egoism is also being accumulated. So man is fast becoming the enemy
of mankind, he is fast losing humanity itself. He becomes less and
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