Golden words of Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba - 23.

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23. Goal of Divinity

 

Flowers scatter fragrance, trees offer fruits in plenty. No one brings wealth

when he is born or takes it with him when he dies. Whatever riches one has

accumulated have to be freely shared with others. Instead of learning the

lessons they teach, man pursues his own sense-cravings and his urge for fame and

authority over others. Contentment is the most precious wealth. Greed brings

misery in return. Contentment alone can lead man towards the goal of Divinity.

 

While the Divine is thus all-pervasive, the ability to recognise this truth is

not present in all. The fact is well known that fire is latent in wood. But on

that basis, if one attempts to cook rice in a vessel, placing it on a lorry load

of unlit wood, can the rice be cooked? Fire has two states - the inner and the

outer. The fire that is invisible and latent is inner fire. This fire, though it

is present, cannot burn anything. The external fire manifests its true form and

can burn anything and reduce it to ashes. Likewise, the power to experience the

omnipresent Divine and envision it internally is possessed by each one, while

only some have the capacity to demonstrate it externally.