Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

eality of all things. He is everywhere but is nowhere visible! He is the
inner core of all but cannot he contacted at all! What is the cause of
this mystery?"
Krishna replied: "You have not understood yet. The Atman is subtler
than the subtlest and so it is difficult to cognise it. You know the five
elements. Earth, water, fire, wind and sky. Of these each subsequent
element is subtler than the previous one. Earth has five qualities:
Sound, touch, form, taste and smell; water has all these, except smell;
fire has only three, sound, touch and form, wind has only two qualities,
sound and touch; and the last one, sky has only sound. That is why
each of these is subtler than the previous one and also more widely
spread. The sky is everywhere, penetrating in and through all, because
it has only one characteristic. How much more subtle must be
the Atman which has no qualities or characteristics! Imagine how
much more immanent and universal it must be! Those who are objectively
minded cannot grasp this phenomenon; only the subjective
minded can have the solution.
This faith can come only to those who can reason things out. It is a fatal
thrust on those who shout, in all seasons, that God cannot be immanent
in everything because he is not to be perceived at all. They do not
believe that God is above and beyond the trivial qualities with which
they seek to measure him. It is a pity, indeed. God is as near to you,
as you are to him; if you keep distant, he too remains distant." (2-227/
228)
How can a person who feels helpless to restrict and regulate his food
habits be trusted to restrict and regulate his senses? If he cannot limit
and control his feelings, how can he limit and control the senses? (2-
245/246)
The state of desirelessness is really the state of egolessness. And
what is liberation except liberation from bondage to the ego? You deserve
liberation when you break away from the bond of desire. (2-247)
You have to give up the twin activities of commission and omission, resolving
and refusing. You have to follow the Lord's commands; You
have to accept his will, be happy wherever he has placed you, however
he has shaped you. You should keep yourself far from the inquiry
into the appropriateness or inappropriateness or your acts, but do
them as acts of worship to the Lord, acts for which no reward is expected.
That is the sum of your duty. (2-248/249)
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