Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

ened by spiritual discipline to include all living beings in its grasp. Offer
this to the guru and seek only such gurus as do not indulge in declamations
about themselves or in derisive attacks on their rivals.
26.10.61, (16-121/122)
Let me tell you, it is only those who know the Shastras that can understand
me. I am determined to correct you only after informing you of
my credentials. That is why I am now and then announcing my nature
by means of miracles - that is, acts which are beyond human capacity
and human understanding. Not that I am anxious to show off my powers.
The object is to draw you closer to me, to cement your hearts to me.
Getting to know me is also a part of your destiny. The other day, on
Vaikunta Ekadasi, when nectar (amrita) was being given by me a few
who had come weeks ago, who had witnessed the creation of nectar
on the riverbed and who had taken their seats in the long line of devotees,
had to get up and go just when I was approaching their line and
thus, miss the chance of, perhaps, a lifetime. It is all “earned” opportunity.
As a matter of fact, each one of you has to be saved: you have
to escape from this net, when the opportunity comes. I shall not give
you up, even if you forsake me; for it is not in me to forsake those who
deny me. I have come for all. Those who stray away will come again
to me, do not doubt this. I shall beckon them back to me. I bless you
that you earn the vision of the Divine in this life itself, with this body itself.
24.11.61, (16-129/130)
Looking at this vast sea of faces, I do not feel like speaking to you; I
wish to derive bliss by just looking at you from here; looking at your
faith and your devotion your looking at me, me looking at you; what
else is needed for bliss to well up?
You yearn to heat my words and listen to my voice also. That is the
measure of your love. You are so accustomed to hear people speak,
that if you do not hear, your ears ache! If they do not speak, their
tongues become restless and even restive. They are both so used to
activity that it has now become difficult for you to sit quietly for a few
minutes, communing with the silence within you!
Man is called so because he has the capacity to enjoy inward contemplation
of the meaning and significance of what he has heard: not only
this capacity, but also the urge to the inner life. But you have not yet
emerged out of the stage of listening; the teachers too have not progressed
beyond the stage of discourse. 4.3.62, (16-150)
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