Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

depict these in the plays you write. That will change the atmosphere
of the theatre and make it holy, sanctifying. You will then be helping
men to become stronger and the nation to become more enduring.
Now, people are sliding down the slope of vice and vanity: arrest that
process. Open their eyes to the chasm that yawns below. 5.12.64, (18-
190/192)
You can be involved in the qualities of life. But, remember, no harm
can accrue if you consider the life of the family as a training ground for
spiritual life. You wear glasses to correct the vision, to improve sight.
So, enter the family, society and politics to correct vision and improve
sight. Use the opportunities confronting you there for developing detachment
and self-sacrifice. 13.12.64, (18-205)
“The fever of arrogant youth" fogs the intellect and makes youth ungrateful
and callous. Parents are neglected; elders are dishonoured;
teachers are ridiculed; scriptures are scoffed at by them. They boast
that they will not bow their heads to any one; but, they have to bow their
heads at least to the barber! They cause grief to the very person to
whom they owe their very life. Do not be led away by the belief that this
is respectable. 17.12.64, (18-221/222)
People, nowadays, know the history of film stars, while they are profoundly
ignorant of their own history. Pay attention to your real needs:
cultivate virtues that will add joy to you and others, not habits that ruin
your health and empty your purse and lower you in the estimation of
others, devotees wont to improve their behaviour and character. It is
no good attending the temple and sharing loudly, with cymbals in your
hands. They are external signs of enthusiasm. God watches the power
behind, not the pomp above. (...)
The unseen is the basis of the seen. If you are caught up in the meshes
of the seen, you cannot know the importance of the unseen. 28.3.65,
(18-342/343)
One pernicious disease has now begun to infect writers and poets in
all countries --- the disease which scorns all that is ancient and welltested
by time, which carps and criticises all that is revered by others.
Flimsy foppery, fiery cynicism - these are held to be “modern” and
modish. That is the literary fashion now. It is doing great harm to the
rising generation, for it perverts their tastes and degrades their ideals.
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