108 Quotations on Faith in God [68]

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108 Quotations on Faith in God

>From Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourses

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For right living, righteousness and character are essential. The divine is

the life-breath of man. The fulfilment of life consists in dedicating all one's

energies to these objectives. Man, however, does not have faith in the divine.

Whether one believes in God or not, one can see from moment to moment evidence

of the presence of Divinity wherever one turns. Without Divinity humanness will

not blossom. A man's life shines amidst enormous vicissitudes only when he

displays qualities like equanimity and compassion. Because man covers his mind

in a cloak of ignorance, blinkers his eyes with egoism, and closes his heart

with the doors of pride, he forgets the Lord who created him and protects him.

Such a man is unable to listen to any teaching. He worships at the shrine

of the sense organs. As his desires go on mounting, he is unable to listen to

what is wholesome for him. He has no relish for the company of the good. He has

no awareness of the transience of life. He does not realise that his life and

all that he enjoys may pass away in a moment. He does not recognise the passing

nature of both joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, success and failure. Obsessed

with the acquisition of wealth and power, he does not realise the Divinity that

is his essential nature. Immersed in ignorance, he wastes his life in the

pursuit of impermanent things.

– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourse on 14.5.1984 Sathya Sai Speaks,

Volume XVII, Chapter 12: Combine morals with business, Section: Introductory

section. Online: http://sathyasai.org/search/volume17/sss17-12.pdf