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Don't clamor for an interview. Instead search for the inner view. - Sai Baba

The end of wisdom is freedom. - Sai Baba

  

Sai Baba Sayings

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There is often more than one tune to play. Not all tunes are merry.

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Teachings of Sai Baba

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It is your very own life you are.
THERE ARE not many! The one spirit remains the one tall self forever. You mistake it as many. The fault is in you. Remove your delusion. In the dark you mistook the rope to be a snake but it remains a rope.
      I often tell you not to identify even me with this particular frame. There's no name I don't bear and there is no body which isn't mine.

AFTER long searches here and there at last you come back completing the circle from where you started, and find that what you were looking on as the mystery of all mysteries, is your very self and the reality of your own life. Manifest it!

YOU AS frame, soul are a dream. But you are the spirit of this world. You're creating this whole world and drawing it in. Follow the heart.
      A pure heart seeks beyond the intellect. The body, the mind, the intellect. All these are simply manifestations. Above all these you are. You appear as the smiling flower, as the twinkling stars.

[Abridged teachings, involving our allround keywords as substitute hints. The original text elements can be skipped, castled etc.]


Thus

DON'T try to identify with a form. Manifest yourself and go beyond the intellect. The heart gives a leading, and maybe the smiling flowers, one way or another. [T+ - #1.1] Based on sayings in the Sai Baba Gita. [Compare]

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Earn money and don't get cut down

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YOU CAN earn money, you can gain wealth and property, you can attain honour and prestige, you can gain position and power. All these are rewards you can attain from your worldly endeavours. But ... these are but temporary fruits. They ... have no lasting value." [Sai Baba]

Suppose good, blessed wealth helps you against floundering and falling - thus you may escape derangements and hell - even tortures and death in that place - that is from things the fisher-fond Jesus said. Further, what if prestige and position do follow some to the other side and are carried along somehow? Have such stuff now, just in case - put that to use. You know what the fisher-fond Jesus said?

  • Make good and fit use of your predominant talents.
  • Bear fruit so as not to be cut down.
  • One is to gather riches in heaven through temporary situations on earth.
Yes. these world views can't be reconciled. However, do what you can.

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The apparently gentle cult teacher served downfalls of minds

The best is far from getting outsmarted.
FAR, FAR away there was once a government officer who did not believe in the power of big words to transform minds, especially not dwarfing teachings and religious-looking humbug. One day he visited a school where a teacher was teaching scriptures to his pupils. The teacher gave them apparently deep thoughts to think over. The officer developed a headache while sitting and listening in. Finally, he said as gently as he could,
      "There is no need to burden small children with deep-ploughing lectures. They must be useless to them and can hardly be grasped well enough by small ones. Tell some fairy tales instead."
      The teacher replied that when the pupils were young and tender, his faith could be instilled in to them, and later the mind sort of closed up around that faith, however wrong, awkward or bizarre it was. He thought that his own stuff was good for anyone else.
      The officer,
      "Good people shouldn't believe that mere words and some canonical duping can develop a mind sanely or rise into the power to really transform it in worthwhile manner."
      The stubborn teacher at once got red-hot angry, and asked a pupil to get up and throw the officer out of the room. "Do it at once!" he ordered.
      The officer got angry back and sneered,
      "Where has all the good-will gone? Wasn't it more stable and handy? Misusing a child to send me out like your slave or what?"
      The teacher mocked too,
      "I mentally beat you up by making you very upset and by using a proxy figure."
      That was how a government officer in Faroffistan saw that the gentle teacher was just faking gentleness to have his way with others that he duped. The officer also noted how bigoted teachings might form cults by dwarfing sanity and polite manners ever so often, and some cult and sect bosses can gain an enormous and prestigious influence - at times for too much bad.
Cf. Sai Baba Gita, "Restraining the tongue in both food and speech": "The story of the officer and the preceptor"


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