Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

this education for immortality along with earth-bound material-centred
education, for it is only education for immortality that can reveal the Atman
and enable man to experience the Divine bliss. (7-50+54)
Just as light and darkness cannot co-exist, education and ignorance
cannot be together. So, all who journey along the path of progress
have to purify their consciousness and illumine their selves through
spiritual wisdom. (7-55)
Do not think that the Vedas lay down a bundle of frightening rules and
regulations and laws. Every one of them has been laid down by the
Lord. All elements in the cosmos, every particle are acting every moment
as ordered by him. This is what the Vedas inform you. No worship
can be higher and more beneficial than serving such a Lord. One
has to offer love to him, more love than one bears to anything else in
this world and the next. He must be loved as the one and only. He has
to be remembered adoringly with such love. That is the fruit that real
education must result in.
The lotus leaf is born under water; it floats on water; but it does not
get wet. Man, too, must be in the world likewise - in it, by it, for it, but
not of it. This is the special feature of higher education, to prepare you
for this role. That is to say, with the heart immersed in the Divine and
the hands busy in work, man must live thus on earth. Love should not
degenerate into an article of commerce. Love fulfils itself in Love. (...)
The natural sciences can provide you only food, clothing and such like.
Spiritual science alone can add strength and steadfastness to the self.
Students should pay special attention to this fact. Consider of what use
are food, clothing and such even in plenty when one has no strength
or steadfastness in oneself. (7-60/63)
The higher self of man is God. Every single act of man has to be elevated
as an act of worship. But students today do not know what exactly
is man and what exactly is God. How can a person claim to be
educated when he cannot identify the God-man principle? They are
the entities denoted by the sacred text as "that” and “you”. He who has
not become aware of these two cannot claim to have known himself.
And the education that does not reveal oneself to one, of what use can
it be to reveal anything else? (...)
Protecting one's motherland is a noble duty. It is the primary duty of
each student. The student cannot claim to have learned much unless
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