Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

can be won by no other means, neither by unlimited scholarship, nor
by pompous vows and colourful ritual. (3-72/73)
Therefore, practice at all times and under all conditions the remembrance,
with love and devotion, of the name of the Lord. That name is
a thunderbolt which will pulverize mountains of sin. It is the unfailing
cure for the dread disease of sheer worldliness. Surely that name will
endow you with peace!
The name of God is as the effulgence of the rising sun, which scatters
the darkness of delusion; it is as luminous, as universal, as sacred. (3-
73/74)
Worldly man is infected with love towards material objects only; but,
the same love when it assumes the form of devotion or love of God
leads one on to the realization of Godhead itself. The word “relationship”
indicates the attraction of worldly objects as well as the longing
for the joy of God-realization.
The consequences of action are diminished by undergoing them and
then, you are born again. But the fruits of devotion to God are never
diminished at all. They last for ever. Liberation lasts; it does not end.
Verily, devotion is the real technique for human liberation. That is the
spiritual discipline par excellence. Every other technique is built upon
that. (3-75)
More than the adherent of the path of action, wisdom or yoga, the follower
of the path of devotion is declared fortunate and superior. (3-76)
Truth is God. An ethical life is the foundation for attaining this stage, a
life based upon discrimination between truth and falsehood. Just as
the pearl is retained while the shell is discarded, the essence, which
is truth, must be accepted and the non-essential rejected. Individual
exertion and Divine grace should both be existent. One should also
constantly practice the great lesson that the body and the higher self
are separate. This is a highly beneficial exercise. Such discrimination
is necessary for all aspects of life secular as well as spiritual. It is indispensable
for realizing the truth, the truth that persists in creation,
existence and destruction - the truth which is God himself. (4-12/13)
The nature and condition of the spiritual path are known only to those
who have journeyed along the road. They know that the path of truth
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