Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

very much. I shall not give up Puttaparthi and live in some other place
or town. In the village, every one will come to the help of a man, if his
house is on fire or if his well has had a landslide.
In the towns, you will find people making merry aloud, when some one
is dying in the neighbouring house. Reverence towards elders, and
faith in the Divine are present and active in the villages. They alone can
help in the restoration of righteousness, the task on which I have
come. 8.7.71, (21-334)
What is the measure of man, already laid down. How has he to live,
so that he does not demean his status? He has to be conscious all the
time that his body and its equipment are his temporary abode; he is the
eternal Divine, the eternal Divine apparently engaged in the physical
cage, as the moon is apparently sunk in the pot of water! 8.7.71, (21-
527)
Man loses his status of humaneness, through acts that shame even
beasts. He does not strive towards revealing and manifesting his latent
Divinity! This is not as big a failing as this sliding back into the animal
from which he rose! If he keeps on with his human attributes and capacities,
that will deserve congratulation enough. A formidable list can
be made of the inadequacies and defects of man, but, the basic defect
is “greed”, “uncontrolled desire” always clamouring for more, as a result
of the ceaseless prompting of the senses! 24.8.71, (22-71)
The individual has to be responsible, for the progress of the world by
upholding the values of life and striving for the good of the community.
Today, scientists and leaders of nations have forgotten the true values
of life and the real good of the world. They are obsessed only with material
progress. Unless they are awakened to the spiritual values of life,
there cannot be any peace and prosperity in the world. Without spiritual
basis, even if men have eyes, they are blind; even if they have
ears, they are deaf; even if intellectually brilliant, they are insane. Spirituality
alone confers true vision, and makes man full and whole.
Today man is a contradiction to himself. His thoughts, words and
deeds are incongruous. Without this harmony how can he contribute
to harmony in the community and in the world? He can only create chaos.
That is the misfortune in the world today. Man has to understand
himself, his own dignity and his inner spiritual reality, then only will he
have the right perspective. 1981, (25-97/98)
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