Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

the benefit and they are similarly saturated. When she is skilled in morals,
the children learn to be moral. Therefore, the level of education
among women decides whether a country is to prosper or decline. Her
acts and conduct are crucial factors.
If the wife feels that the husband's home is sacred, then that home itself
will endow her with every skill and qualification. There is no place
anywhere which excels such a home for her. One saintly poet has
sung that it is her temple, her school, her playground, her political arena,
her field of sacrifice, her hermitage.
Educated women can do useful service to the community around them
according to their skill, taste, inclination, desire, character, educational
status, mode of living, discipline or scholarship. (...)
So too, knowledge can develop discrimination, inspire the springs of
service, prompt inquiry into reality, promote the search for the Absolute,
and even pave the way for attaining Divinity. On the other hand,
it might feed and strengthen the roots of falsehood, hypocrisy, cruelty
and injustice; it might teach man newer means of deceit and ruin the
career of man on earth. It might turn love into poisonous hatred and
truth into a bone of contention.
Therefore, whatever subject a women might have studied and mastered,
whatever degree she has won, whatever the status of her husband
or of herself, she must hold fast to these truths; real charm consists
in good character; morality is the very breath of women; modesty,
the very life force; adherence to truth is her daily duty. She must plant
the seedlings of fear (fear of sin, fear of the Lord) in her heart and cultivate
the charm of humility. In the religious, moral and physical fields,
she must adhere to the strict dictates of righteousness, and take that
as the essence of all education. She must be prepared to sacrifice
even her life for the sake of maintaining honour; she must nourish and
preserve her chastity and her adoration of her husband. This is the
chief duty of women. This is the reason for her very birth as women.
(8-28/33)
A caveat should be said about heart transplant. The operation may be
easy, but how easy is it to get a heart for transplanting? A transplanted
heart may serve for a time, but cannot serve as long and as well as the
godgiven heart.
A word of caution has to be uttered with regard to heart transplant or
transplanting the cornea for the eye. The character of the person from
whom the transplanted heart or cornea has been got should also be
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