Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

You have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another,
for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position which
gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God-whether you recognise
it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift,
namely, the poor, the illiterate, the weak, the diseased, the grieving,
the broken-hearted, who seek your help. 22.11.70, (21-384)
The Sathya Sai Organization has no desire to exhibit any superiority;
it tries to hold forth the ideal, to be witness to the truth of certain spiritual
discipline. 25.12.70, (21-413/414)
I have often told you about the ideals and technique of service, I am
calling upon you once again to experience the joy of service. Render
your hearts cool with delight; share the delight with others; adore God
in this delectable form. The qualifications needed for service, are a
pure heart-uncontaminated by conceit, greed, envy, hatred or competition,
and faith in God, as the spring of vitality, virtue, and justice. Service
is the worship you offer to God in the heart of everyone. Do not ask
“which state you belong to? or which caste or creed you profess?” See
your favourite form of God in that other person; he is not “other” at all.
He is God’s image as much as you are. You are not helping an “individual”;
you are adoring me in him. I am before you in that form; so,
what room is there for the ego in you to raise its hood?
Duty is God; work is worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower placed
at the foot of God. (...)
Wherever you see a sick person, a dispirited disconsolate diseased
person, that is your field of service. Every blood cell, every nerve, must
tingle with love, with eagerness to share that love with the forlorn.
When love has filled your heart, it has really been transformed into Divinity,
for, God is love and love is God. It is this love, and the compassion
that flowed from it that made the great saints of India and of other
countries, immortal like Kabir, Tukaram, St. Francis, Ramakrishna. (...)
You may not get a chance to participate in a gigantic scheme of service
through which millions may be benefited; you can lift a lame lamb over
a stile, or, lead a blind child across a busy road. That too is an act of
worship.
A copy of the Bhagavadgita may be available for twenty-five paise; a
puerile novel may cost ten rupees. Which is more worthwhile? Which
can transmute base metal into gold? Service is more fruitful than all
spiritual exercise, usually recommended for spiritual aspirants. It
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