Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

It is enough if love is cultivated, the love that knows no distinction between
oneself and another, because all are but limbs of the one body
of God Almighty. Through love alone can the “embodiment of love” be
won; no scholarship is needed; in fact, scholarship is an impediment,
for it caters to egoism and breeds doubts, the desire for disputation
and the laurel of victory over others! When love is established, no
member of the Sathya Sai Organization will compete with another, or
look down on another. The bond of love will knit all into a rare type of
family, which knows only one will and one direction. (21-177/178)
Women have an important role to play in the moral regeneration of the
people. That is the reason for the new emphasis on women groups.
They can tell children epic stories of sacrifice and heroism, of saints
who sought God and saw him in truth, beauty and goodness everywhere,
of great men and women, who delved into the secrets of the
universe and the law of all laws, which governs the microcosm and the
macrocosm. Christ said: “Let children come unto me.” They have a
sense of wonder, fresh and free; they have the simple, sincere eagerness
to know; they have reverence towards knowledge and power.
22.11.69, (21-187/188)
The goal is not the proliferation of activities and centres, the multiplication
of units, dotting the map with devotional singing or service to
others, but encouraging devotee to become examples and an inspiration
to others.
What is planned is “inner individual reform and reconstruction” and not
“outer reform and rebuilding”. This is no game of word-building, where
out of one big word a number of small three letter-words are derived
and paraded! This is world building where out of a large number of
straight and sincere individuals the new human community is formed.
(...)
Choose men and women who have unswerving faith in this present
Avatar, with this name and this form. That will save the units from many
complications later on, arising from loyalties which may dissipate or divert
the energies of the office bearers. The leaders of these units lead
because they have the vision and the yearning, not because they have
the votes or the money. The bliss they derive is the only reward they
are after. When men who have no understanding and no vision gain
positions of authority, unrest and confusion follow. Detachment, simple
living, steady spiritual practice - these are the qualities that entitle
357