Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

water can rise. If air enters, the water will not rise. So too, be sure that
attachment to worldly things does not mar your spiritual discipline.
Love will not well up if sensual pleasures or personal pride invade the
mind.
There are three things which one should keep in mind, namely: “I will
not think of anything else except God”; “I will not do anything else without
the permission of God” and “I will have my attention completely
fixed in God.” (...)
Your nature and your predilections are shaped by the way in which you
loved and wrought, fed and fought, in the long series of lives you had
already. (27-1/3)
If the seeds of true wisdom that I sow do not come up as good saplings
and give good harvest, I too am affected. On the other hand, if they
grow well and fructify into a harvest of bliss, how happy I am; that is
my food. This is the service you should do to me. There is nothing higher
than this. (...)
People hesitate to enter the field of spiritual discipline, though they
crave for the harvest of joy. They are not willing to spend a pie, they
are reluctant to do an Iota of exertion; but they want liberation to drop
from the heavens on their laps. They would have the vision of God
thrust painlessly into their brain! (...)
Study of scriptures and religious texts and such books without effort to
practice, results in ill-health. Being false to one's professions eats
away one's self-respect and one starts getting ashamed of oneself.
So, learn and practice; eat and digest. That is the advice I give you.
You must have the staunch determination to use this opportunity to the
full. You are near and those who are far, are far, only with reference
to space, not with reference to my love. To realise the Lord, you must
welcome hardships, trials, and sufferings. You must dwell on the name
and form steadily and with faith. You must discard all inferior sources
of joy. (...)
The hospital is for those who have faith in drugs and doctor. But, what
can drugs and doctors do without the grace of God? The day will surely
come when the hospitals will be superfluous, since all will be healthy
and free from illness, accepting the spiritual way, the way of bliss, to
peace and happiness. (27-5/7)
When the mind of man is unattached to the ups and downs of life, and
is able to maintain equanimity under all circumstances, then even
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