Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

physical health can be assured. The mental firmament must be like the
sky, which bears no mark of the passage through it of birds or planes
or clouds. Illnesses are caused more by malnutrition of the mind than
of the body. Doctors speak of vitamin deficiency; I call it the deficiency
of vitamin G and I recommend the repetition of the name of God, with
accompanying contemplation of the glory and grace of God. That is vitamin
G. That is the medicine; regulated life and habits are 2/3 of treatment,
while the medicine is just 1/3 only. (27-8/9)
Hold all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them
to you; even your family, you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons
given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must
transform your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for
spiritual progress. (...)
The Lord is nearer to you if you slide open the door of delusion; part
the curtain of ignorance; open the closed eye; he is right there, before
you! The fog of sensual pleasure is hiding Him from you. Switch on the
light; the darkness disappears and He becomes visible. (...)
Let me tell you that married life will not bar your way to realization. Look
upon the wife, husband and children as a sacred trust, and serve them
in that spirit. Prepare yourselves for a celibate and spiritual discipline
from the age of fifty; the five senses have to be mastered, by the time
five decades of your life are over. The conclusion of six decades
means that you have conquered the six foes of man: lust, anger,
greed, attachment, pride and hate. When you are seventy, you must
have become ready to merge with the seven sages, the seven seas
and the seven colours of the solar ray; that is to say, you must be far,
far above mundane desires and ideals, and as near the point of mergence
as possible, through spiritual discipline. Eighty must see you in
line with the deities that preside over the eight cardinal points, more or
less Divine, in attributes and characteristics. Ninety takes you, or rather
should take you, to the realm of the nine planets, into the realm of
the super. When man reaches the hundred mark, living out the ten
decades, he must have mastered the ten senses, the five senses of
action and the five senses of knowledge and become wisdom incarnate,
with no trace or consequences thereof or the desire for it. He and
the absolute are one and indivisible! (...)
What exactly is the aim and purpose of the sacred texts, these discourses?
Just try to answer that query. It is to tell man the truth about
himself. (27-15/17)
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