Sai Baba's Teachings - Human Values / Peace

November 4, 2003

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Peace

"If there is righteousness in the heart,

There wil be beauty in the character.

If there is beauty in the character,

There will be harmony in the home.

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."

So real Santhi (peace) is to be had only in the depths of the

spirit, in the discipline of the mind, in faith in the one base of

al this seeming multiplicity. When that is secured, it is like

having gold: you can have any variety of ornaments made from it.

You cannot easily detach yourself from activity; the mind clings to

some thing or other. Make it cling to God, let it do all things for

God and leave the success or failure of the thing done to God, the

loss and profit, the elation and dejection. Then you have the secret

of Santhi and contentment.

Now all things have gone up in value; man alone has become cheap. He

has become cheaper than animals; he is slaughtered in millions

without any qualm because of the terrific growth in anger, hate and

greed; he has forgotten his unity with all men, all beings and all

worlds. The contemplation of that unity alone can establish world

peace, social peace and peace in the individual.

When man thinks, speaks, and acts along virtuous lines, his

conscience will be clean and he will have inner peace. Knowledge is

power, it is said; but virtue is peace.

What exactly is peace? It is the stage in which the senses are

mastered and held in balance.

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