Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

to uphold the dignity of the country and uphold right conduct, thereby
uplifting the entire country. You should be prepared, if you find a person
who preaches peace and righteousness but himself practices violence
and an immoral life, to give him a good beating. Students
should be prepared to punish anyone who has his legs and yet behaves
like a lame person, anyone who has his eyes and yet behaves
like a blind person, anyone who has his mental strength and yet behaves
like a weak minded person. The word punish used here should
not be interpreted as causing physical harm or trouble. (...)
You should go to the persons in authority and see that the inconveniences
are removed. Instead of this, if you take the wrong path and get
excited you will bring disrespect to the very name and vocation of a
student and you will be abusing the culture and training that you have
received. By following anarchic practices, you simply ruin the reputation
of the whole country. Excitement is not a good thing. It is a characteristic
of weakness. It is only a weak person that gets excited. In
their excitement, some say that they have achieved their objective but
this achievement is often only temporary. If you look at a problem in a
peaceful manner and spend the necessary time thinking it over and
going into it in depth to arrive at a proper solution, the result will be lasting.
(...)
After you reach home, you will find that there are Sathya Sai Organizations
doing spiritual work. I hope you will join such organizations and
recall to your mind all that you have learnt here and continue to live this
experience. Only when the boys and girls who participated in the summer
camp go back and pass on the bliss and happiness which they
have acquired here to others with whom they come in contact can they
be said to put into practice what they have learnt. The kind of happiness
and the good ideals that you have learnt here must he retained
by you till the end of your life enabling you to enjoy it. (36-291/293)
When you meet with difficulties and come across sorrow, you should
take courage and use whatever strength you have in a good and appropriate
manner to face the situation bravely. Man's life consists of
ups and downs, man's body also consists of ups and downs. This is
only natural. It is a characteristic feature of things in nature that they
go on changing continually. If there is no change, human nature itself
has no value. If there are no difficulties in one's life, life itself will not
work. If there is no sorrow, if one does not meet with sorrow, there is
no value in one's life. If there is no death at all, even a mother cannot
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