Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

ody should undertake such work which the sacred thoughts of your
mind will direct it to do. (37-188/189)
It is by faith and trust that one can become wise. If you have faith, it
will be possible for you to acquire any amount of wisdom. What kind
of faith should you promote? Faith in sacred things and faith in how to
help the community. You should also develop this care and trust in
selfless work, in doing things which will give pleasure and happiness
to others. (37-210/211)
You do not find even one of that kind in a million. Many people who
continuously perform worship and meditation and read spiritual texts
do not appear to have any practical experience at all. Truly, practices,
which you only listen to and texts which you merely read, are all a
waste of time. It is not possible for you to purify yourselves merely by
reading books. Today the book and the head appear to have become
one. You are learning how to convert your head into a book, but you
are not learning how to convert the narrow ideas in your head into useful
practical knowledge. The words that one utters are very peaceful
words, but the actions that one indulges in are violent. People who deceive
others have become very numerous and this is the reason why
your motherland is suffering. (37-215)
Students, you should recognize that along with you as an individual,
there is also society and the community. You are not living solely for
yourselves. You are not living solely for the sake of your family. You
are living for the sake of the world. Even before you were born, your
father and mother were there. Your father and mother were part of the
society around you. Having been born into the community, how can
you leave it? This is the opportunity for you to regard service to the
community as service to God. You must push away the selfishness in
you and undertake the task of helping others. You will have read stories
in which the moral is that God will like those people who like the
people around them. On one occasion, Abu Ben Adam was returning
to his home, when he found that there was light coming from the bedroom
window. When he looked in, he saw that an angel was sitting in
his bedroom, and using a golden pen to write in a book. Gently Abu
Ben Adam entered the room and asked: "Mother, what are you doing?"
She replied: "I am an angel, I am a messenger of God. I am writing a
list of names of those have shown affection to God." Abu Ben Adam
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