Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

stood by experiments and instruments, but in the spiritual sphere such
discrimination will not work. One should have faith and love. Without
faith or pure love, whatever arguments you may enter into, whatever
inquiry you make, will yield no results. If lost in doubt one can never
achieve success even in many lives. (...)
Only those who are eager to learn, who have faith in the teaching that
should be learnt and trust they will experience Divinity, can be taught.
(...)
The world today is in a very bad state. The situation can improve only
through those who are believers in Divinity. They should become embodiments
of love, and by their spiritual discipline, backed by patience,
forbearance and compassion, play their role in serving society and
contributing to the betterment of the world. God is present in you and
is viewing with thousands of eyes what you do. Even if no one is seeing,
God is always watching your actions. Do everything with this
awareness. 23.1.82, (25-238/244)
Students should learn the right way of doing things even in ordinary actions
like sitting or reading. They should sit erect and keep the spinal
column straight. This enables the kundalini power to move up from the
base of the spine to the top of the head through the vertebral column.
This movement takes place during the yogic exercise known as breath
control. This exercise is also useful for improving one's memory and
powers of concentration. (19.6.96)
There are three ways of calming the mercurial mind: 1. Regulated
breathing. Inhale and exhale in a measured manner, watching its symmetry
and balance; that will diminish the eagerness of the inner tongue
to wander into conversation. Finally it will give up the tendency, for
good. 2. Engage yourselves in loving service of the diseased and the
distressed. Undertake to teach a few children who have no one to
guide them. Let your thoughts and activities be selfless and sincere.
The itch to communicate to the mind will be healed thereby. You will
feel that your energies are more fruitfully engaged in serving your fellows
than in talking and discussing with your wavering mind. 3. The
third method of avoiding this type of conversation is spiritual exercise,
resorted to in earnest and with regularity. It can be the repetition of
name, recitation of mantras, chanting hymns or practice of yogic postures.
The Gayatri mantra can be used for this purpose. It is certain to
yield quick results. (...)
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