Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

2. To yearn to realize God is another precious piece of good luck;
3. The greatest good fortune is the chance to be in the presence
of God, to be immersed in the service of God, to be engaged in
fulfilling Divine commands. 12.8.82, (25-267/269)
Everyone should realize that he is the embodiment of the Divine. You
may talk about the Avatars of Rama and Krishna. But your present
Avatar is no less significant. All those Avatars came to tell mankind
that all human beings are Avatars (incarnations of the Divine). Having
taken birth as human beings men should conduct themselves as embodiments
of the Divine (as beings in whom the Divine spirit resides).
Recognizing your spiritual reality you should live always in the Atman.
Man who should progress upwards from day to day is going down the
slope. This is not right learning. Every day you should make the ascent
towards the Divine. “I am God. God is not different from me.” This is
the conviction with men should live. (28.3.96)
Embodiments of love! This vast cosmos, consisting of moving and unmoving
objects, is permeated with truth. All names and forms are
founded on righteousness (dharma). Dharma is the form of God. The
Atman (spirit) which is present in the subtlest of the subtle and vastest
of the vast as a witness, is verily the Brahman (all-pervading consciousness).
All the objects in the universe are made up of atoms. The atom is the
embodiment of the Atman. Hence there is no place in the universe
without the Atman or Brahman.
Forgetting the spiritual basis of the universe man gets entangled in
misery through his worldly attachments. (...)
The role of every Avatar is to establish the reign of truth and righteousness,
banish all that is evil, false and unrighteous in the world, and help
to manifest the Divinity in mankind. (...)
Animating principle of Avatars is infinitely wide. It is the quality of great
men to face obstacles and opposition with courage and calmness. It
is not easy to understand the inner urges of great men or the motives
and actions of Avatars. The animating principle of Avatars is infinitely
wide. Compared to it, the capacity of the ordinary man is infinitesimal.
How can the atom comprehend the infinite? Can an ant measure the
depth of the ocean? Impossible. Likewise the nature of Divinity is beyond
human comprehension. Even the great sages could have no full
understanding of the Divine.
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