Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Students! It is essential for you to recognize the qualities that characterize
a human being. In order to acquire these qualities, you have to
develop concentration, a spirit of sacrifice, and faith in God. Wisdom,
thus attained, shines like the sun. In your state of ignorance, the illumination
of wisdom is covered by the cloud of selfishness. So long as
man is not able to push away the clouds of selfishness, he cannot look
at the sun of wisdom. (35-214)
Do not feel proud of your Iearning and think that you are a very knowledgeable
person. What after all is the extent of the knowledge that you
have acquired when you are not able to help others with that knowledge?
To think, because of the limited education you have had, that
you are better than others is a matter of unwarranted pride and ego
and you have to give this up. In truth, you are the embodiment of ignorance.
You must realize that out of your limited knowledge and education,
correct ideas cannot come to you. (...)
You are becoming slaves to the process of birth and death. You should
not allow yourselves to become slaves to this process. You should
make an attempt to become one with the great effulgent spirit. Man
does not make an attempt to understand the basic difference between
the duty that has been entrusted to him as a human being and to others.
He does not ask the question as to what he has achieved during
his life time and how he has been useful to others. He ends his life without
answering any of these basic questions. (...)
For your spiritual life, righteousness is the basis. Righteousness does
not depend on an individual. Righteousness does not depend on a period
of time or a particular situation. Righteousness depends only on
truth. That is why it has been said that there is no right conduct other
than truth. To conduct oneself in a manner which on the spur of the
moment comes to one's mind and to think that is right is very foolish.
To think that to conduct oneself in accordance with one's own ideas is
practice of right conduct is very foolish. To be able to develop equal
mindedness and to be able to develop equanimity are the correct aspects
of right conduct and for this one must have an unwavering mind
and thoughts. (...)
The kind of education that you get today cannot be called true education.
You only superficial acquaintance with a large number of text
books and not their essence or right education. As a result of the vast
amount of information that you acquire, you simply lose all your energy.
We cannot find even one student who has acquired general knowl-
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