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108 Quotations on Faith in God
From
Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourses
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10 –
Sense-control
will guard you against a host of evils. Do not believe that
because you are equipped with the senses nothing harmful can
happen through their free exercise. You may have your car
registered in your own name and be driving it yourself, but if you
do not apply the brakes timely, accidents are bound to be your lot.
Your body can be compared to a car. Your eyes are like the lights;
your stomach, the petrol tank; your mouth, the horn; your mind,
the steering wheel; dharma (right action), artha (wealth),
kaama (desire) and moksha (liberation) , the wheels;
the air within the tyres is faith and intelligence, buddhi
(intellect) , the switch.
The worship of jeeva (individual being) , which is the
other name for seva can be worthwhile only when the heart
is pure. All the various types of service that one may write and
talk about are mere empty boasts if the mind of the sevak (volunteer)
is not pure. A heart bubbling with aanandha and a mind
saturated with love may do any tiny bit of seva, yet that
will win much more Grace than huge projects undertaken in pride
and pomp.
Nowadays, faith in God and goodness has declined. The means
have become subordinate to the end. Success is sought by fair means
or foul, foul means being the first resort. Misuse of official
position, terrorising ignorant and innocent people to get one' s
way, creating situations of fear and despair, to undermine the moral
strength of people--these have become accepted tactics. Victory won
through questionable means is as shameful as defeat; defeat, while
pursuing honest and compassionate means, is to be welcomed as
victory. When you do not stray from the straight path, when you hold
fast to truth and when you do not lose courage, your failure is as
creditable as success.
– Sri
Sathya Sai Baba
From: Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourse on 22.11.1978
Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume XIV, Chapter 13: He Too Is He,
Section: Sense-control will guard against all evils
Online:
http://sathyasai.org/search/volume14/sss14-13.pdf
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