Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

his heart and become pure by surrendering to the Lord in anguished
repentance.
The Lord's command is that each one should pursue the special Divine
conduct laid down for him; each person should plan his life according
to the spiritual foundations of his culture; he should give up the objective
vision and listen to the voice of God. (2-7/9)
When the desire to attain the fruit of action is renounced with full intellectual
awareness, then it becomes what Krishna calls "yogabuddhi."
The intellect has to be purified and trained; otherwise, it is impossible
to give up attachment to the fruits of action and to continue doing
things as either duty or dedication. Such a purified intellect has discrimination
and sees unity. Cultivate this and then, through it, liberate
yourself from the bondage of activity and consequence. The true you
is above and beyond the consequence of activity. (...)
The practice of this type of renunciation ends the state of bondage. (2-
35/36)
So along with the mastery of the senses, you must establish mastery
of the mind. That is the sign of an enlightened, and not an unreasonable
individual. Where does the unreasonable go? To perdition and
nowhere else.
The upward path is for the enlightened. Of these two masteries, if the
mind is controlled, that alone is enough. It is no longer necessary to
conquer the external senses. If the mind has no attachment to objects,
the senses have nothing to cling to; they perish by inaction; love and
hate are both starved out of existence. The bonds with the objective
world are cut, though the senses may yet be affected by it. For he who
has been blessed by an awareness of the Atman, how can anything
worldly bring grief or joy? (...)
As the stars fade into invisibility when the sun rises, so too when the
sun of knowledge rises, grief, agitation and ignorance vanish.
You have three chief instruments; the mind, the intellect, and the senses.
It is when these three work in unison and co-operate with one another
that liberation in the knowledge of the Atman, is realized. (2-42/
43)
If the wheel of creation is to move smoothly, each one has to keep
working. No-one can get round this obligation. Even he who has
achieved the highest wisdom has to observe this rule. Eating and
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