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.
Quotations
Sathya Sai Baba
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.
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.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added lustre.
One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning. Any process of inquiry is related to learning. But basically our inquiry should be concerned with finding out what is transient and what is permanent. This is true knowledge.
As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. Only then he would be able to develop integral vision.
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.
Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One’s entire life is a continuous process of learning.
