Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Attend all the sessions in the hall: the recitation of OM, the devotional
group singing, the discourses. Do not take shelter behind excuses. If
you are ill, song of praise will help the cure; it is far better to die during
the group singing with the Lord's name on the lips. Devotees are led
along wrong paths and the respect owed to pious people is dwindling
because they are not kept rigorously on the hard path. Concessions
have spoiled them. Hereafter, I will not excuse the slightest deviation.
You have been here for years and so I have to treat you as grown-ups.
not as children. It is on account of the love that I have towards you that
I rebuke you when you take a false step. My grace will make the lotus
of your heart blossom. 28.4.62, (16-201/202)
There is another principle. Righteousness trains you to be calm, levelheaded,
secure in equanimity. You know the transitory nature of success,
riches or poverty, joy or grief, appointment or disappointment.
You are not elated or deflated. You are serene, unmoved. Anything
that helps you to maintain this unruffled stability is righteousness. (...)
One common definition of righteousness is that it is adherence to the
rule: “Do unto others what you wish them to do unto you. Do not do
unto others what you do not wish them to do unto you". Do not have a
double standard. Treat all as your own self. That is to say, you must
have faith in your self and then only can you have faith in others. You
must respect yourself and respect others. Egoism is the measure of altruism.
Mankind is one community; you harm yourself and you harm
all. You make a man stand erect and that act makes you stand erect.
The treatment you wish others to render to you is itself the measure of
your duty to them. 5.10.62, (16-239/240)
Brahman alone is real; nature is unreal. Be in this awareness always,
that is the high spiritual exercise. Your vision, your speech, your
deeds! This is the triple path. Become a child, lose your conceit and
pride. When you are still in the region of the basic quality, motive by
desire, whether for the good or for the grand or the mean, you have
yourself to seek the mother; when are free from the bonds of the enticements
of desire, the mother herself will hasten towards and fondle
you in her lap. Purify your vision, sweet your speech, sanctify your
deeds - that way lies liberation. 2.9.63, (17-46+49)
There is a definite technique by which that immortal spark be discovered.
Though it may appear difficult, each step forward makes the next
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