Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

Note this also. In this Divine incarnation, the wicked will not be destroyed;
they will be corrected and reformed and educated and led
back to the path from which they have strayed. The white-ant infested
tree will not be cut; it will be saved. Again this Avatar will not select
some place other than the place where the nativity took place for the
centre of its Divine sport, miracle power and Divine instruction. This
tree shall not be transplanted; it will grow where it first rose from the
earth. Another speciality is this: the Avatar has no affinity or attachment
in His career to members of the family wherein He appeared.
Unlike the appearances as Rama, Krishna, etc., where life was
played out mostly among and for family members, this Avatar is for
devotees, sadhus and noble souls and aspirants only. It has no recitation
of holy name, meditation or yoga (practising union with God). It
knows no worship; it will not pray to anything, for it is the highest. It
only teaches you to worship and pray. To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated
person will appear mad and he will laugh at him. But to the
godintoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish misled, blind.
Of all the insanities that harass man, godmadness is the least harmful,
the most beneficial. The world has suffered untold damage due to
its “mad” rulers and “mad” guides; but nothing but harmony, peace,
brotherliness and love have come out of the “Godmadness” of man!
1955, (15-22/23)
This is just the reason why I came to sow the seeds of faith in religion
and in God.
You might have heard some people say that I became Sathya Sai
Baba when a scorpion stung me! Well, I challenge any one of you to
get stung by scorpions and transform yourself into Sai Baba. No, the
scorpion had nothing to do with it! In fact, there was no scorpion at all!
I came in response to the prayers of sages, saints and spiritual aspirants
for the restoration of righteousness. (...)
The sages, savants, saints, yogis and Divine personalities have had
their try, and they will all be cooperating in the task of reestablishing
righteousness and clearing the path for the world attaining absolute
peace. The greatest defect today is the absence of the inquiry into the
nature of the self. That is the root cause of all this restlessness. If you
are eager to know the truth about yourself, then even if you do not believe
in God, you will not go astray. (...)
Do not be under the impression that I will be angry with you if you do
not accept me as the form for meditation! I am not concerned at all; you
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