Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

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Publisher's note: The publication of this book has been made possible by the Rosenkreis Edition Publishing House and friends. The earnings flow back into a fund in order to spread further books about the “Timeless Wisdom and Truth”. A3-04 ISBN 3-9521968-3-5 Copyright © 2001 by Rosenkreis-Verlag, Reinertstr. 6, 4515 Oberdorf, Switzerland. All rights reserved. Website: http://www.rosenkreis.ch Copyright © of the english Sathya Sai Baba source-textes by Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, Prashanti Nilayam, A.P., India Fotos: Copyright © Sai Datta, Puttaparthi, India Copyright © R. Padmanaban (Sai Tower), Puttaparthi, India Printed by WB-Druck GmbH, 87669 Rieden/Allgäu, Germany
Contents Cross-Reference 7 What's the Purpose of this Book? 9 Foreword 10 Introduction 13 I. GOD - ATMAN - BRAHMAN God is a Fact 17 God - Creation - Human 21 Trinity 43 II. OM - GOD, INCARNATED AS SOUND OM 53 Meditation on OM (pranava) 56 III. INCARNATION OF GOD - AVATARS Avatars 63 The Divine Embodiment Sathya Sai Baba 71 Misunderstandings and Doubts 149 The Teaching of Timeless Wisdom and Truth 159 Revelation 170 IV. LOVE OF GOD - HEART OF GOD - HUMAN HEART Relationship between Humans and God 175 The Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Mankind 184 Religions - Origin - Unity 186 Kingdom of God - Fifth Kingdom of Nature 204 Divine Order - The New Religion 211 V. MANKIND Evolution of the whole Mankind 227 Spiritual Laws - Natural Laws 235 Duty of Mankind and Nations 245 Human Values 262 Truth 262 Righteousness 270 Peace 273 Love 280 Non-Violence 283 Education 285 Sleep 294 Restlessness 295 Entanglement 295 Struggle against the Blindness and Illusion of the World 349 International Sathya Sai Organization 352
Page 1: Sathya Sai Baba • The World-Avata
Page 6 and 7: VI. MAN - INDIVIDUAL Path of Light
Page 9 and 10: What's the Purpose of this Book? Du
Page 11 and 12: Now, here we have finally reached a
Page 13 and 14: Introduction Why should books be wr
Page 15: I. GOD - ATMAN - BRAHMAN
Page 18 and 19: Today incredible things are happeni
Page 20 and 21: spiritual discipline. He is the cor
Page 22 and 23: sway, it becomes dullness. When the
Page 24 and 25: The living being on account of an i
Page 26 and 27: ance is darkness. Darkness can pers
Page 28 and 29: There is a great deal of argument a
Page 30 and 31: education has to teach man how to t
Page 32 and 33: ighteousness in any circumstances.
Page 34 and 35: Through devotion alone can that sel
Page 36 and 37: ways. Take the food that you consum
Page 38 and 39: ody decays and disintegrates, the i
Page 40 and 41: ing use of the vibrations from the
Page 42 and 43: ything. Have faith in God and love
Page 44 and 45: eousness, so that the world may sai
Page 46 and 47: Today you have to acquire the favou
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Page 50 and 51: any of the senses. This transcenden
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The Vedas prescribe the repetition
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5. Krishna said: “Whatever else a
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10. There are many who argue that t
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III. INCARNATION OF GOD - AVATARS
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The petty investigation done by ord
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ation. It is this confluence that h
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ti) has come, all together, in one
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Instead of trying to understand the
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mood and make it a permanent posses
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have perfect freedom to select the
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looking for him in some particular
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true nature. In this context, even
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a thing as Divine grace and love. I
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ner which smacks of selfishness but
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must try and continue this. To forg
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entire story is unfolded, then you
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these seven, you can consider as ha
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misled into error and loss. The tim
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ened by spiritual discipline to inc
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among the professed followers of th
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pluck flowers and hasten their deat
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to save some one. I have no illness
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of this Avatar. When I was upstairs
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pear, do not doubt it. That is the
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within ten more births! Strive to a
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Some people remark that Ramakrishna
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there is nothing else to see or hea
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unrighteous will fall into disaster
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for without them, the best in you c
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I have come to light the lamp of lo
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It has been suggested in a letter t
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this manifoldness is but he, seen t
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A glance from the corner of the eye
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What is needed today to save onesel
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ayi means mother and Baba means fat
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him, when he finds him desperately
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You should offer your knowledge for
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Divine love is the only panacea for
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Once on a Shivaratri day, after I h
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I prevented them, because there are
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me this, then I shall give you this
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you; that will save you from concei
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Unless you brighten your vision wit
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trudge along the wilderness to whic
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The Divine has placed some limitati
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you have to understand. You must be
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It is a rare privilege to be born a
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immortal name. No other village has
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were once convinced and listen agai
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scribed as my speaking through them
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work that each does is important fo
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the universe is experienced. Ud-yog
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elieves that he is the body, the se
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nounces the Supreme principle which
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tities are capable of such exercise
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and experience in dreams and witnes
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awaken all the sweetness latent in
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Revelation Remember that with every
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as the power to discriminate betwee
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Relationship between Humans and God
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also in the innermost recesses of t
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en it on trust; you take many thing
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of breezes or of things that it mov
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God subjects his devotees to tests
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Repeat to yourself the truth that t
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tures deal with only one goal but t
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toddy, brandy, etc., are indulged i
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texts like Bhagavadgita, Mahabharat
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There are in this huge gathering pe
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Jesus taught simple practical lesso
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all this is the Divine." This is th
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Jesus was a person whose only joy w
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The best way to resolve the confusi
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People talk about spiritual exercis
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2. The earthly kingdom, alternating
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light and love to all. He attracted
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duality has been shed. This is the
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Divine Order - The New Religion Div
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such a multiplicity of names. But e
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the appropriate dictates of conscie
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complishing many difficult things w
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ner truth, the contemplation of one
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Divine law is not an ordinary affai
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devotion has its own measure. It wi
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Evolution of the whole Mankind You
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and the bliss that knowledge confer
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the receiver and thrill the giver,
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Three things are most essential tod
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Spiritual Laws - Natural Laws Natur
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his knowledge or without his resolu
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cific benefits and bounties have to
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The inescapable destiny of every li
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If there is an iron law of karma wh
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The Duty of Mankind and Nations As
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form and will have on effect on the
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this land, since thousands of years
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mantras, sacred formula, have poten
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made the home of a happy family of
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fear. But, I assure you that very s
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These are eternal truths; but, Indi
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Your lives are spent largely in the
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the name of Sai. Sai has absolutely
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ealization of that power, for earni
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out a second. The body is subject t
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and discrimination leads to God. Th
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sible is wrong. While God in the fo
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very much. I shall not give up Putt
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whatever action he does all belong
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ow, hence, the source of the Divine
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To earn that calmness, steady const
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self, and always walk in the path o
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How then, is love to be cultivated?
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Unless you have love, you cannot cl
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Education The end of wisdom is free
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and grows into a tree, man too has
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ice. Let the mind, the heart and th
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Success in this task can be achieve
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he is able to discover and discharg
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moving about, lack of sufficient sl
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Brahman is not in him. In the heart
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Take the one truth that God is pres
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tem but it is sad that in the name
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elders, that will be referred to as
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edge. He chooses one small part of
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trouble. He himself eats and sleeps
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to uphold the dignity of the countr
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When you are able to control desire
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asked if his name was there in that
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You are the Eternal Divinity, if on
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cause all of them regard the body a
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influence. Mastery over this one se
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"God will do whatever is necessary
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elieve in the Vedas as the ultimate
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chopping off the head, since the do
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they grow up in their company and l
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Whatever talent a person has should
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He who adores the past is considere
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thread running through from lesson
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so that you can picture the kind of
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politeness and good manners are est
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Education must enable a person to d
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To arrive at the truth, we must go
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God. We have therefore to promote e
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the inner vision. A women without t
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taken into account. The practitione
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Struggle against the Blindness and
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He denies the innate excellence of
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the temple I like. When you seek to
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is very beneficial and good spiritu
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It is enough if love is cultivated,
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Base your activities on righteousne
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serves two purposes: the extinction
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ious tasks, gladly and with perfect
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Members of this organization must b
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and their surroundings are bright a
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VI. MAN - INDIVIDUAL
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his heart and become pure by surren
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cial uniqueness of duty, and nature
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eality of all things. He is everywh
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First: Faith - that can stand the r
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keep your eyes riveted on Brahman w
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When such tests come from God, they
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water can rise. If air enters, the
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When the magnet does not attract th
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A life of spiritual discipline invo
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the external symbols of riches or p
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Attend all the sessions in the hall
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dust. Faith in God and in his omnip
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eings and all objects, wherever he
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God is the embodiment of compassion
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The part-filled people have attaine
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many names in many areas through ma
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404 Gayatri Mantra - The universal
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It is impossible to grasp the myste
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man, mentioned therein and oneself.
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day, is part of this process of de-
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Meditation Today many people in the
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you should regard your body as your
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For, light is God; God is light. Wh
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surface when the veils of ignorance
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The Vedas say that there are three
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stood by experiments and instrument
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424 The Body as Temple of God The b
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which is between attachment and det
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Do not spend much thought on the bo
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country is described as the mother.
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Man and women, though master and wi
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A wife with such a nature is a wife
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Rama and Krishna, religious teacher
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women to play their role in society
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intelligence, you can control death
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present in everyone. The fact that
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it will be. I shall reveal the Divi
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the answer. Now, you must first und
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If, at all times, you are completel
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All lives, lived without faith and
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The Ages In the Golden Age, Divine
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This Iron Age is praised in the scr
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VIII. VISION - FUTURE
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Sathya Sai Baba Gayatri OM Sayishva
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Glossary Arjuna - the disciple of L
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three types of lingas can emerge. T
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