Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

pass through their hands. The impact of their teaching and their personality
will be great and lasting. Therefore, the teacher has to be free
from bad habits. For children automatically adopt the habits and manners
of elders. This is an ever-present danger. When the evil influence
is directed towards thousands who receive the impact, society gets
polluted. (7-30/31)
Work done with no concern or desire for profit, purely out of love or a
sense of duty, is yoga. Such yoga destroys the animal nature of man
and transforms him into a Divine being. Serve others, visualising them
as kindred Atmans. That will help one to progress; it will save one from
sliding down from the spiritual stage attained. Service is far more salutary
than even vows and worship. Service disintegrates the selfishness
latent in you; it opens the heart wide., it makes the heart blossom.
So, work done with no desire is the supremest ideal for man and when
his mansion is built on that foundation, virtues will gather unto him
through the subtle influence of this selfless service. Service must be
the outer expression of inner goodness. As one undertakes service,
one's consciousness expands and deepens and one's Divine reality is
more clearly known.
This ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of
education. Pure love is its chief manifestation. God loves those who do
good to mankind as his dear children. They are ideal brothers for their
countrymen. They deserve and achieve the awareness of the Divinity.
Whoever assigns his wealth, strength, intellect and devotion towards
the promotion of the progress of mankind is to be considered as a person
to be revered. Those who are born for a noble purpose, observe
the holy vow of service, unsullied by thoughts of self.
Prompted by the urge to further the progress of others, a person dedicates
his wealth, skill, intelligence, status and becomes truly great.
Such a one is the purposeful seer for the world. He fulfils the vow of
selfless service. He who is conscious of his duties and obligations and
spends his days putting them into practice will be in supreme peace,
wherever he may be. Through his influence, his neighbourhood too will
share that peace.
Wisdom impels man to pour into the sacrificial fire his narrow ego and
foster in its place universal love, which is the foundation of the superstructure
of spiritual victory. Love, which knows no limits purifies and
sanctifies the mind. Let thoughts centre around God, feelings and
emotions be holy and acts and activities be expression of selfless serv-
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