Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

I have come to set the world right and so I have to collect all those who
are ill and treat them in my "Hospital" and restore them to sanity,
strength and wisdom and send them back to their stations in life. I must
intensify your devotion, reinforce your faith and rebuild the foundations
of your moral nature, so that you can counter temptations with greater
confidence. I have come across people who recite a prayer and believe
that they are bringing the world nearer to peace with every occasion
on which they pray. But peace can be won only the hard way, by
eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individuals. 29.9.60,
(15-184/186)
How do you give me bliss? By taking to heart what I say and putting it
into daily practice. Deciding to move high but attracted by the low, you
betray yourself. Improve your character and conduct; when your feelings
become cleansed and your impulses pure, then you can see my
form in its reality. I shall tell you the thing in a nutshell: Make the intelligence
that has to understand me free from crookedness; let it become
straight and sharp.
Your relationship is Divine, not secular. I have now fallen into your
grasp, the very treasure that you have been searching for, because
your relationship is spiritual, not secular or trained. In all other places,
you are fleeced; for the relationship is based on the purse. In some
places, it is based on caste or scholarship or some other incidental
trait; here, it is the attachment that God has for the living being, the
ocean for the stream, the universal for the particular. Here, every one
must become unlimited, escaping from bonds that limit him.
All can become he; no one is outside the love of the Lord. (...)
Books, pamphlets, meetings, speeches, talks - all these are no good;
every one desirous to know me has to be asked to approach me and
experience me. In order to get an idea of a mountain it is not enough
if you show a stone and say: "The mountain is a million times the size
of this." You will have to see an actual mountain, at least from a distance.
The "beyond" is very incomprehensible. 29.9.60, (15-190/192)
The liberated person can continue in the world free from attachment,
once he has realized that he is of the same substance as the immanent
Brahman. When that Brahman is seen through illusion, it appears as
endowed with qualities and is referred to as Lord (Bhagavan).
Bhagavan has seven chief characteristics: Prosperity, glory, wisdom,
non-attachment, creation, preservation and dissolution. Whoever has
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