108 Quotations on Faith in God [69]

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108 Quotations on Faith in God

>From Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourses

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Bharathiyas have held fast to three beliefs: The law of Karma, the concept

of Avatars, and the doctrine of rebirth. The law of Karma means that there is

no escape from the consequences of your actions. The Karma doctrine lays down

that one has to experience the results of his actions.

The concept of Avatar implies faith in God and in the divinity inherent in

man. Man does not merely mean the human form. Man is distinguished from other

animals and creatures by his capacity to judge what is permanent and what is

transient, and his ability to recognise the past, the present and the future.

Man alone has the capacity to comprehend this threefold nature of time. Man can

ruminate over the past and speculate about the future. He can experience the

present. However, man should not worry about what is past. The present is the

product of the past. What has happened is beyond recall. It is futile to worry

about the future because it is uncertain. Concern yourself only with the

present. By "present" we may be thinking only of this moment. But this is not

the present as Divinity sees it. For the Divine, "present" is what is

"omnipresent."

This means that both the past and the future are present in what is,

because it is the result of the past, the seed of the future. Because man has

no firm faith in the Omnipresence of the Divine, he worries himself about the

past, the present and the future. For the Divine, these three categories of

time do not exist.

– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourse on 03.08.1988 Sathya Sai Speaks,

Volume XXI, Chapter 25: Role of the Avatar, Section: Human birth is the result

of Karma. Online: http://sathyasai.org/search/volume21/sss21-25.pdf

 

 

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