Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

chopping off the head, since the door is too low and you do not want
to enter with a stoop. What you have to do is to discover means of
growing more food, by, to give one example, utilising the vast resources
of underground waters. Artificial means of preventing conception
will promote licentiousness and bring down on the country bestial promiscuity.
Those who encourage these dangerous tactics must rather
encourage sense control and self-restraint through spiritual discipline
and service, methods advocated in the scripture by sages who knew
the calamities that are the consequences of irresponsible fatherhood
or frustrated motherhood. The innocent victims can be educated to
master their lower urges and sublimate them into more beneficial
channels. Without mental preparation and determination these artificial
methods may cause ill - health insanity and other complexes.
Through the media of films, books, music and the behaviour of elders,
young minds are excited and aroused Into indulgences. Through the
campaign for family planning, they are persuaded to adopt means by
which they have no responsibility for the consequences of that indulgence.
This is indeed, burning the candle of future strength and
progress of the nation at both ends. The best method of family planning
Is the ancient one; making man realize through spiritual discipline
his innate Divinity. (27-217/218)
These are days of doubt, anxiety, fear, division and distress; so, people
need consolation and support. Even scientists who were proud that
they could explain the universe and put it into a formula are getting
humble, seeing the vaster and vaster vistas spreading before them at
every step. One scientist was telling me how scientists are baffled;
they open one door after another with tremendous effort, only to enter
a corridor which has a dozen closed doors challenging them to further
effort! It is a never-ending process, this pursuit of nature, this attempt
to unravel the mysteries of illusion. If you yearn for joy and peace, turn
rather to the Lord who lays down the law; that is the lesson that all
thinking men must learn now.
But attending such meetings, sitting quietly like this and listening to me
is not enough. When a person claims to have gone to the shore of the
sea and played with the waves, he must produce as evidence at least
a pair of wet feet. So too, when you come to this sea of devotees and
share the waves of bliss, the proof is in the eye becoming wet when
another weeps; in the heart that exults when another is happy. Even
when you listen, gather the honey as the bee does when it visits the
flowers. 26.2.61, (16-21/22)
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