Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

The Ages
In the Golden Age, Divine law was accepted and sought after as the
very basis of life. In the Silver Age, the next age, God who was installed
in the heart was accepted and sought after. In the Copper Age,
developing contacts and attachment with kinsmen and friends was
considered enough to keep one safe and happy. In the Iron Age, the
modern age, food and sustenance are taken as the very essentials of
life. 21.11.70, (21-358/359)
When man moves away from his moorings, hate spreads far and wide.
In the past Ages, the Golden, Silver and Copper Ages, the fumes of
hatred poisoned human relations off and on; but, at no time were they
so insidious and so infiltrating as now. Now, the evil has contaminated
relations in the family, the village, the community, the school, the state,
the nation and international organizations. In no field of human activity
is it absent! When members of the same family are engaged in faction,
how can the nation be free from it? How can national affairs be conducted
in the spirit of tolerance and mutual cooperation? It is wrong to
spend days in the prison of dualities, the seesaw of grief and joy, pain
and pleasure, success and defeat. Get beyond the horizon of body,
mind and intellect, and be one with the vastness. Brahman means the
vast, the expanse without horizons. 15.5.71, (22-39)
In this Iron Age, the paths of devotion, righteous deeds and the acquisition
of wisdom are all declared equally effective, so that people of different
dispositions and temperaments can have the fortune chance of
the truth being revealed to them. Education must open these paths before
the children. 16.3.72, (22-101)
The reconstruction of man is indeed the reconstruction of the world.
Only when man becomes better can the world be better. Only when
the individual becomes good can society be happy. Progress in externals
like politics, economics, and social spheres, is not enough. The
mind of man has to be reformed. This cannot be effected through food
alone. Materialists who argued that human problems can be solved by
ensuring food, clothing and shelter, reached their doom when the atom
bomb exploded. Man can reach fullness only when the three lines of
progress; material, intellectual, and spiritual, are all pursued with earnestness.
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