Why has man fallen into ignorance and suffering despite being divine by nature, and what spiritual disciplines can help him?
"Man has fallen into ignorance, egoism, and greed because he has forgotten his real nature, which is unaffected by loss or grief. In truth, man is the embodiment of all the great virtues - love, peace, righteousness and truth. He has not realised this; he runs after low, vulgarising pleasures, and so, entangles himself in falsehood, injustice, and violence. He has to cure himself of these by the remedies of tyaga (voluntary sacrifice) and yoga (renunciation and self-control). And, along with these remedies, he must regulate his ways of living and follow the regimen of faith and devotion.
As butter is inherent in milk, God is immanent in the Universe. When it is churned, the butter separates itself and becomes cognisable. So too, by means of love and the discipline of the recitation of the name, God can be concretised. Temples in villages are the places where such concretisation has been effected. The temple is for the village as the heart is for the body. In fact, the temple is conceived on the basis of the body being the temple that man carries about him."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Divine Discourse, - November 15, 1973)
Manava (human) can become Madhava (God) Himself. For it is the destiny and the right of every human to attain that status and be in the limitless bliss it confers. - BABA
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