108 Quotations on Faith in God [10]

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108 Quotations on Faith in GodFrom Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourses

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Sense-control will guard you against a host of evils. Do not believe that

because you are equipped with the senses nothing harmful can happen through

their free exercise. You may have your car registered in your own name and be

driving it yourself, but if you do not apply the brakes timely, accidents are

bound to be your lot. Your body can be compared to a car. Your eyes are like

the lights; your stomach, the petrol tank; your mouth, the horn; your mind, the

steering wheel; dharma (right action), artha (wealth), kaama (desire) and moksha

(liberation) , the wheels; the air within the tyres is faith and intelligence,

buddhi (intellect) , the switch.

The worship of jeeva (individual being) , which is the other name for seva

can be worthwhile only when the heart is pure. All the various types of service

that one may write and talk about are mere empty boasts if the mind of the sevak

(volunteer) is not pure. A heart bubbling with aanandha and a mind saturated

with love may do any tiny bit of seva, yet that will win much more Grace than

huge projects undertaken in pride and pomp.

Nowadays, faith in God and goodness has declined. The means have become

subordinate to the end. Success is sought by fair means or foul, foul means

being the first resort. Misuse of official position, terrorising ignorant and

innocent people to get one' s way, creating situations of fear and despair, to

undermine the moral strength of people--these have become accepted tactics.

Victory won through questionable means is as shameful as defeat; defeat, while

pursuing honest and compassionate means, is to be welcomed as victory. When you

do not stray from the straight path, when you hold fast to truth and when you do

not lose courage, your failure is as creditable as success.

– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourse on 22.11.1978Sathya Sai Speaks,

Volume XIV, Chapter 13: He Too Is He,Section: Sense-control will guard against

all evilsOnline: http://sathyasai.org/search/volume14/sss14-13.pdf

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