All religions exhort us to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.
Quotations
Sathya Sai Baba
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.
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.
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory, you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
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.
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
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.
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.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
