Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

dust. Faith in God and in his omnipresence has to be unshakeable so
that man can win. 9.12.64, (19-11)
Of course, you have to be in the world, but you need not be of it. Your
attention has to be fixed on God, the God within. 1.1.67, (20-2)
You must have the skill to swim across the waves of joy and grief, pain
and profit. You must be a master of the art of being fully at ease, perfectly
calm and unaffected, whatever may happen to the body or senses
or mind; they are all inert when they are not urged by the inner I,
which is intelligence, awareness. Learn the skill of achieving and maintaining
inner peace, the art of being ever aware of the Atman, as the
inner reality, and then you can safely circulate in the world, as fast as
you care. 7.7.68, (20-249)
Joy is a deceptive trap; grief is the real preceptor, teaching caution, circumspection,
discrimination, detachment, awareness and vigilance.
Death is not the merciless foe it is made out to be, it is the friend and
companion, the teacher, the kindly kinsman who takes you into his fold
and clothes you with the halo of remembrance. The heart of man has
to be toughened, not hardened; it has to be made soft, not slithery, this
can be achieved only by the blows of loss, grief and distress. It is God's
way of shaping you, in the Divine mould. But, man is blind to his mercy;
he revolts at the first blow of the sculptor's hammer! (...)
The true sign of a Sai devotees is this steadiness. He cannot swerve
from this chosen path to cynicism or luxurious pomp. He puts spiritual
teachings into practice and knows the immeasurable gain they give.
18.8.68, (20-281+283)
If you know the road and the goal, then you can discover whether you
are progressing or not. The goal is to enlarge your vision, your sympathy,
your love to the extent that God has spread his love, his compassion
and his grace. So, be ever watchful to see that you strive to
take in more and more of God into you. Blood has to circulate from
head to foot; love has to circulate from high to low; then only can health
and happiness be ensured, for the individual and for the community.
This is God's world; all beings are his. He loves them all, as the moon
sheds coolness on all. 5.3.66, (21-4)
Enthusiasm for progress in the spiritual field and consequent mental
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