Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

A life of spiritual discipline involves the dedication of all acts to God,
the offering of whatever one does or thinks or speaks at the feet of
God.
The mind must revolve round one centre, God. Your concentration
must be strong and steady. Why have you to struggle to acquire it?
The reason is: you have no yearning, no fond attachment, no love towards
God. But, carry on with the endeavour. By means of continuous
culture, it is possible to acquire it.
Spiritual discipline is a uniquely precious activity which will be vulgarised
by public gaze. (...)
True love is one which remains unchanged and that is the love for Divinity.
Believe in yourself. Then you will believe in God. (27-66/67)
A smile is the rose that grows on the thorn of a sigh. Shed tears, but
only for joy; joy that you are released from the chain of desires. (27-
152)
All the sufferings of man today can be traced to this false sense of values.
First things must come first. First, self; then, help. Now people
start helping others on the spiritual path without traversing that path
themselves. So both the guide and the guided fall into the pit. (27-202)
Man does not realise that there is a vast unknown beyond the five
faulty instruments of perception that he has. For example, from every
being and thing, constantly without intermission, millions of minute
particles and millions of vibrations are issuing forth. Certain substances
like camphor emits so much of these that a lump disappears in a
few days. The bodies of others affect you by these emissions and you
too affect them in the same way. (...)
Five types of bath are prescribed in the Hindu scriptures in order to
maintain physical immunity from the emanations of others, the mudbath,
the sun-bath, bath in water, the air-bath and ash-bath where the
body is given a coating of fine ash or vibhuti, revered as the mark of
Shiva. The ash guards the body from evil contacts and the deleterious
effects of the vibrations proceeding from others; it also sanctifies and
purifies the vibrations of the individual wearing the ash, for it reminds
him always of the inevitable end of all that one feels as one's own except
the Lord who is the very person himself. Untouchability as a social
practice must have had its origin in the realization of this truth. (27-215/
216)
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