Take Me as the Ultimate Goal
The contemplation of the Godhead as ‘above and beyond all attributes’ is necessary for the attainment of jivanmukti (attainment of liberation while in the body). If that is difficult and beyond your capacity, you can do another thing. Dedicate to Me all worship, all adoration, all Vedic rituals, and vows and vigils with all the fruits that may accrue. Take Me as the ultimate goal, as the final aim that transforms all acts into worship; fix your mind on Me, meditate on Me; I shall then shower My grace and take you across the ocean of change, of samsara [worldly existence]; I shall favor you with the goal you seek.
Gita Vahini, pp. 196-197
When the thirst for liberation and the revelation of one’s reality is acute, a strange and mysterious force in nature will begin operating. When the soil is ready, the seed appears from somewhere! The spiritual guru will be alerted and the thirst will get quenched. The receiving individual has developed the power to attract the giver of illumination.
Sathya Sai Vahini, p. 97
Sharanagati, or unconditional surrender, is the main gate to enter the mansion of mukti (liberation). It has four floors, dhyanam (meditation), karma (action), bhakti (devotion), and jnanam (wisdom). Each floor rests upon the one beneath, and the topmost one cannot be reached without ascending the first three.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.3, p. 99
It is not a question of surrendering or giving to some other one. One surrenders to oneself. Recognition that the atma [soul] is oneself is surrender. Surrender really means the realization that all is God, that there is nobody who surrenders, that there is nothing to be surrendered, nor is there anyone to accept the surrender. All is God, there is only God.
Conversations with Sathya Sai Baba, p. 93
Humanness and God-ness co-exist as inseparables. They are the negative and positive poles that have to be together to produce the warmth of love and the light of wisdom. Once you have established yourself in the higher Self, you would not get lost. You can then wander freely in the realms of the unreal. If you have not experienced the self as a spark of the supreme Self, your wanderings will be as fruitless as the trekkings that animals do by instinct. So try to transform the humanness with which you are endowed into the divinity that is its real core.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.12, p. 184
