When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself.
Quotations
Sathya Sai Baba
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
When there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
Home and family is the basic social institution everywhere in the world. When the home improves, the whole world will be better.
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
