Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

The knowledge of the principles governing objective nature can at best
provide man with food and clothing; it teaches man ways and means
of gaining them; it leads to the exploitation of the weak by the strong.
(5-29)
A life lived without mastering one's senses does not deserve the name.
Man has been endowed with many capabilities and if he does not use
them to control his senses and direct them properly the years be
spends alive are wasted. Valid education helps man to achieve success
in this process of mastery. Wisdom confers discipline. Education
promotes humility. Through humility, one acquires the right to engage
in professions. That authority confers prosperity. A prosperous person
has the capacity for charity and right living. Right can confer happiness
here and hereafter. (7-20)
Education must determine and delve into the nature and characteristics
of spiritual search for the Absolute or the higher self. It must prove
its true character by manifesting as a spring of morality, laying down
axioms of virtue. Knowledge is its own visible proof. It is the root of faith
in every faith. It prepares the mind of man to appreciate and adhere to
faith and to direct man's living along that course. This has been named
philosophy.
Philosophy means love of knowledge. Knowledge is a treasure of incalculable
richness. Education is the relentless pursuit of knowledge,
urged by love for its value, undeterred by difficulties. Knowledge tries
to probe behind the forms assumed by things and the appearances
they put on and discover the reality that alone can explain them. The
truth has to be known and lived by; the truth has to be visualized; this
is the function of knowledge.
Wisdom is the effulgence that permeates a full life. In the West, knowledge
deals more with concepts and conjectures; in the East, knowledge
deals more with truth and totality. The principle sought by wisdom
is beyond the field of the senses Man is a triune composite of
body, mind and Atman, the higher self. As a consequence, he has
three natures in his make up 1. A low, animal nature, 2. A human nature,
replete with worldly knowledge and skill, and 3. The genuine nature
of man, namely, the Divine nature. Being aware of this third nature
and establishing oneself in that - is wisdom. (7-21)
The human being is like a seed. Just as the seed sprouts into a sapling
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