Small Teachings

The consequences of action can be wiped out only through action, as a thorn can be removed only by means of another. Do good action to assuage the pain of bad action committed by you, which you suffer now. Be ever engaged in the best and simplest action—repeating the name of God. It will keep out evil tendencies and wicked thoughts and help to radiate love all around you.

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. IV, p.  310

Each person eats to assuage his own hunger. So, too, each must discover the best way to appease his own spiritual hunger. Contact your own reality in the silence that you create by quieting the senses and controlling the mind. A tree is held and fed by roots that go into the silent earth. So also, if roots go deep into the silence of your inner consciousness, your spiritual blossoming is assured.

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. IV, p.  367