Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

must try and continue this. To forget what you have listened to as soon
as you leave this place it, is unbecoming of human nature. Students,
you must exercise great control over your mind. You must see that the
mean desires of your mind do not get control over you. You must serve
your parents, your society and then your country. This is the true form
of yoga. You must experience this kind of yoga in your daily life. You
must acquire for yourself several things, in the dharmic field, the religious
field and the spiritual field. It is not possible for an individual to
practice all those things; but you must choose a few out of them and
put them into practice in your daily life. Most important is that daily from
morning till the night, you must think of the three essential things,
namely do not forget God, do not believe in the world, do not be afraid
of death. These three things are essential in your life. You must forget
any harm done to you by others. So also, you must forget any good
you may do to others. 1977, (37-250/251)
It is to clear the path of spiritual progress of man that the Avatar has
come. The restlessness in which man is immersed has to be curbed.
That is what is meant by the saving of sadhus," the “saving of all good
individual beings” from the tentacles of grief caused by want of knowledge
of the relative unimportance of worldly things. All living beings
must get peace and bliss; that is the mission on which the Lord comes
again and again on this earth. He selects a place full of holiness and
Divinity and takes on the human form, so that you may meet him and
talk, understand and appreciate, listen and follow, experience and
benefit.
The tragedy is that when Godhead is invisible, formless, you concretise
it as you like and pray to it and get consolation and strength out of
it; but when it is before you, concretised in human form, you doubt and
discuss and deny! People fall before the stone snake and pour milk on
it and wash it lovingly with sacred waters; when it materialises into an
actual cobra, they flee in fear! But a true devotee has no fear or disbelief.
10.7.59, (15-129)
Let me tell you that you cannot understand me and my secret without
first understanding yourselves. For, if you are too weak to grasp your
own reality, how can you hope to fathom the much grander reality of
my advent? To grasp my meaning, you have to tear into tatters the
doubts and theories you now have and cultivate love, for the embodiment
of love can be understood only through love. The "miracles and
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