Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

All your desires must be fulfilled or - you should not have any desire.
Of these, the reduction of desire is the easier path.
Take the troubles that come to you as tests and opportunities to learn
non-attachment. Hot summer sends you to air-conditioning. Grief
sends you to God. When a child dies, ask ourself: “Is it for my sake that
he was born?” He had his own destinity to fulfil, his own story.
26.11.62, (16-272/273)
This is a critical time for the people of India, when the self-confidence
arising from self-knowledge is vital. Both men and women have to earn
this knowledge and treasure it. Men should give up the attitude of
putting down women. They are not “servants” to be lorded over; they
too have self-respect and individuality. In fact, women have devotion,
sympathy, the spirit of sacrifice, fortitude and other virtues in greater
measure than men. Yet the feeling that if their advice is taken, it is
somehow demeaning, is prevalent among men. This must be given
up. Pay respect to spiritual excellence and intellectual discrimination,
wherever it is evident. 9.3.67, (20-23)
The centre of every home must be the shrine room; the fragrance of
flower and incense emanating from there must pervade the home and
purify it. The mother must set the example by making the shrine the
heart of the household. She must enforce discipline over the children
in personal cleanliness, humility and hospitality, in good manners and
acts of service. She must persuade the children by example and precept
to revere elders and to allot some time both in the morning and
evening for prayer, and for silent meditation. The shrine room has to
be kept clean and consecrated; special festival days, marked out in
each religion, should be observed, so that the significance will impress
the young minds. However self-centred and haughty the husband is,
by systematic regulation of the domestic time-table, with worship of
God as its focal point, the man can be made to realise how a God-centred
home is a home of peace and joy. He too will soon fall in and be
a pillar of faith. (...)
The home is the temple where the family, each member of which is a
moving temple, is nurtured and nourished. The mother is the high
priest of this house of God. Humility is the incense with which the
house is filled. Reverence is the lamp that is lit, with love as oil and faith
as the wick. Dedicate to such worship, in your homes. I bless you so
that through your faith and strength, devotion and dedication may increase
in this land. 26.7.69, (21-75/77)
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