Similarity Between Sai and Jesus
Jesus: I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. The greatest in the kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child. And whoever welcomes in my name such child as this, welcomes Me.
Baba: The babe is the inheritor of immortality; as it is unaffected by anxiety that haunts the adult. The constant consciousness of the Reality—God is the fruit of sacrifice. Not by the intellect, nor by progeny, nor by wealth, but only by renunciation can immortality be attained.
Jesus: If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied round his neck and be drowned in the deep sea. How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen, but how terrible for the one who causes them!
If your hand or your foot makes you lose your faith, cut it off and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life without a hand or a foot than to keep both hands and both feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Baba: Earn the sword of jnana (wisdom) to cut asunder the veil of maya (illusion). Discriminate between the real and unreal early enough during the journey toward the goal. If the eye is not helping you to derive the unending joy of visualizing God in everything it brings before your mind, then it is far better to be blind. If your ear drags you into the realm of filthy cacophony, it is far better to be deaf. The senses must not plunge you into the sensual, they must serve your real interests and sublimate your desires and appetites. That is the only way to ensure health and happiness.
Jesus: If anyone wants to come with Me, he must forget self, carry his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his own life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Will a person gain anything if he wins the whole world but loses his life?
Baba: If man wants to lead a peaceful life, he must realize the importance of sacrifice. The truth that is contained in the statement that immortality can be obtained through sacrifice alone should be understood well.
When you ignore the existence of the witness (soul), when you divorce your daily life from the awareness of that seat of peace, you invite sorrow to torment you. That is the spiritual dolour, the cross that each man carries along the trail of life.
This birth has been undertaken by you for this very mission, the mission of crucifying the ego on the cross of compassion.
