Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

If one's real nature is first understood, the rest can all be easily
grasped. One will thereafter know where one is, whence one is going,
how long one exists etc.
These four issues are interdepend, one on the other. If one is solved,
all the rest can be known; but, not one of these can be ignored. (...)
Who are you? The supreme cosmic reality, the soul, the higher self.
From are did you come? From the supreme cosmic reality. Where are
you going? To the supreme cosmic reality itself. How long can you be
here? Until you merge with the supreme cosmic reality. Where are
you, now? In the unreal, the ever-changing. In what form? As non-self.
What are you engaged in? In evanescent tasks. Therefore, what
should you do? Give up these three and try the other three - to enter
the Eternal, to engage in never-changing tasks, and to enjoy the bliss
of the supreme cosmic reality. This must be the chief effort of the individual
soul, its perpetual aim, the greatest adventure in this world. All
other tasks are humdrum and silly; they glitter a moment and vanish.
You will realize this truth only if you turn your back on them and watch,
wisely. (3-44/48)
There are many who say that the absence of wish and will is best. This
is not so good as having one wish, more than all others; or, rather “one
wish” and one alone, to the exclusion of all else. Even more superior
is the person who has steadiness of effort, in realising that one wish.
For he can promote not only his own good, but even the world's good.
Let your wish and will and effort be directed to your own good; do not
divert them to worldly pleasures, for that will cause harm and destroy
peace. (3-53)
God is a shoreless bottomless ocean. That ocean is the basis for the
ever-shifting waves, the evidence and result of its power. The waves
emerge from the sea, leaps forth from it, falls back into it and dissolve
into it. Though the power of the sea is thus manifested in ups and
downs, rise and fall, the sea is steady and fixed. But, the world is concerned
more with the temporary and the shifting, and thinks that the
waves are very important. So also, the devotee is more concerned with
attainments that are evanescent and changing and not with the unchanging
experience of the principle behind, the Absolute, the impersonal
God. (3-54)
You are not the thing connoted by the word, "I". You are the one, with-
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