Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

the external symbols of riches or power; the container, nor the thing
contained.
For example this marble image is only a container. The thing contained
is the Sai basic principle. Just as a cup is the container and the milk in
it is what is contained , you pour the Sai principle in this form and you
call it Sai Baba; you pour it in another vessel of a different form and
call it Shiva or Krishna or Rama. (...)
I do not like people wasting the precious moments of their limited years
of life in idle talk or vain pursuits. Nor do I like cowardly hesitation. Act;
act with all your might and with all your mind; make full use of the skill,
capacity, courage and confidence that you are endowed with. Then
God will bless you. 2.12.61, (16-132/134)
There is only one sun, but he is reflected in a million tanks and wells
and pots. God is one and his reflections are the living beings, each with
the Atman apparent therein. There are lakhs of people here now and
in each one of you now, Swami is shining in the heart. That is the real
Atman bliss. Keep it fresh for ever and foster it carefully. That is the secret
of peace. 2.12.61, (16-136)
The educated have not the peace that the uneducated have! They live
in greater disconent and misery and are tossed about without a rudder
in a sea of troubles. They do not know anything about the source of
peace and bliss that they carry about within themselves; they allow the
inner consciousness to go dry by neglect; they are not aware of the
means to irrigate it with the waters of love and grow therein the fruits
of peace. They read books but do not correct their modes of thinking
and living. (...)
You have to select the drug you need, drink it, imbibe it, assimilate it
and counteract the cause of illness. (...)
In India, since ancient times, the glory, the Divinity and the sanctity of
man have been proclaimed and taught. Only those who have learnt
them deserve to be the sons and daughters of this land. Others are like
the kokil birds, the cuckoos that are born in the nests of crows; their
place of birth is India, no doubt, but they are basically aliens, of a different
species altogether. Guru Nanak said that without faith in God,
man is blind; without it, you are moving corpses. Your life might be as
grand, as beautiful, as rich as the Taj Mahal - but remember the Taj is
but a tomb! Whatever the method of worship, whichever the name or
form, it is faith that matters; it is that which gives life and energy for
higher things. 23.12.61, (16-137/139)
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