Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

sible is wrong. While God in the form of the higher self inside your body
is making you utter the word “I”, it is most foolish on your part to identify
such a Divine “I” with your destructible and material body. Any feeling
of attachment to the body and the illusion that the body is real is tantamount
to death. On the other hand, the realization that you are the
supreme cosmic reality is tantamount to immortality.
You should fix your thoughts on the Absolute and all your actions involving
the body have somehow to be reconciled to the feeling and
recognition of the Absolute. (36-156)
Truth is something that is not modified by time or space or quality. It
must be the same for ever, unaffected and unchanged. Then alone is
it Truth. It should not be proved false by some subsequent event or
knowledge. 6.12.63, (17-122)
In fact, the truth regarding God, man, nature etc, is so simple that a few
minutes of quiet contemplation can reveal it to any one of ordinary intelligence.
Everyone will admit that anything which undergoes change
cannot be truth. Truth must remain as truth, in the past, present and
future. Now the world and all objects of nature are constantly being
subjected to change - building up or breaking clown, evolving or mutating,
flowing or festering, growing or dying. How then can they be
true? The subjective feelings, attitudes, impurses, beliefs, instincts, intuitions
- these too are changing; they are pleasant one moment, unpleasant,
another; the same thing is welcome at one time, repulsive at
another time. (...)
There must be something stable and permanent and eternal as the
background, the base, the foundation, for this changing scene to appear
an. Appearance is untrue; reality is eternal.
Again, a few minutes of investigation will convince anyone that he is
not the body which he carries about with him, as the snail carries its
home; he is not the eye or ear or tongue; he is not the mind or intelligence
for, he refers to them as “my mind is not in it” etc., meaning that
he is separate from his mind; “my intelligence failed me", meaning that
he is different from his intelligence. He is a witness; it is the body that
dies; he survives; he is reborn when he takes on a new body. 4.10.65,
(19-90/91)
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