Guest guest Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Dear Brothers and Sisters, SaiRam. Today I would like to share with you all the following conversation between SWAMI and John Hislop. This is an excerpt from the book 'My Baba and I'. January 29, 1981 ---------------- JH: SWAMI, please restate or redefine the goal, the objective of the American Sathya Sai Organization. SAI: It is not just the American, it is the objective for world-wide Sathya Sai Organizations. People, the world over, do not know they are Divine. They do not even realize what it is to be human. They have ego, anger, greed, envy, lust, hatred. These are not human qualities; they are animal qualities. Unless SAI devotees are, at the very best, human persons free of animal qualities or characteristics, how can such devotees suggest spiritual life to others? Such suggestions will have no impact. If devotees in general are not yet free of animal characteristics, there should be in each Sathya Sai Baba Center two or three members who live a life as true human beings. The individual does not progress alone. He is not separate from Society, and he must do his bit to uplift the society. Therefore, the individual's work to free himself from animal characteristics and to live a spiritual life is not done for himself, but is done for all of God's creatures. The work of freeing the individual's nature from animal qualities is done, in love, for God, and done in His Name and with His help. Each member of the Sathya Sai Baba Center should work very hard to purify the quality of his life, and the goal should be to lead a perfect life, an ideal life; to be an ideal exemplar of the divine teachings of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The world will respond to the ideal life of a Sai devotee. The world is yearning for the ideal life and will, of its own accord, adopt such a life if it comes into view. They will respond, and they will follow such a life. JH: SWAMI, does that mean that our Centers should now move beyond the task of working with Center members and tackle the world? SAI: The Center members must carefully work to become truly human before they venture to instruct the world. SaiRam Raghu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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