Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Each birth wipes out the memory of the one already experienced. Man
does not realise that the end of this cycle of birth and death is in his
own hands. (12.2.64, (17-170)
Death is not a deplorable event; it is the journey's end, the owner getting
out of the car when the time is up and the goal is reached. It is a
consummation, a happy conclusion, or at least it ought to be, if only all
were wise enough to treat it as such and be prepared. 15.10.66, (19-
256)
People do not understand the ways of God. How can they know why
a particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner?
He alone can know. But, people try to sit in judgement and talk
ill, when for example, some one dies of illness at this place! How can
any one escape death? Even Avatars cast off the physical form when
the task for which they have come is over. It is the height of foolishness
to lose faith in God when some one you cared for dies. The sentence
that he earned is over and he is released. No one is born and allowed
to live for the sake of another. Do not therefore allow any circumstance
to affect your faith in God, who is your strength and solace. 10.3.67,
(20-24)
Desire is the cause of birth; time is the cause of death; God is the
guardian of life. An account of desire, birth takes place. Time, which
flows on unceasingly, respecting none, cuts the thread of life. 10.3.67,
(20-26)
No other human community has gone so deep into the problem of birth
and death, of thoughts after death and the continuity of the consequences
of thoughts, words and deeds, as the Hindus. The solutions
they discovered and verified are so universal, so convincing and so
beneficial for individual and social uplift, that they have stood the test
of centuries of critical assessment by scholars and sages of all lands.
One commendable feature of this investigation is that reason has never
taken second place. At every step, the spiritual discipline is to be reinforced
by reason. The spiritual discipline is the drug, the intelligent
appraisal of the results and difficulties is the regimen. The disease of
spiritual ignorance is cured by the “tablet” science of the spirit; that is
to say, the damaging consequence of ignorance is cured by higher
knowledge. 14.10.67, (20-116)
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