Manava is to Soar from Danava
From:
Sri Sathya Sai
Dear!
Accept My Blessing and Love. People spend Holy days as Holidays. They revel in picnics, cards, film shows and sensory pleasures. These are demonic pastimes. Tarnishing the hoary traditions of the human being thus is inviting degeneration of mankind. Man forgets that Godhood has to be achieved through Humanhood, that Manava is to soar from Danava. All deeds, small or big, in which we indulge every day harden into habits. These habits shape the intelligence and mould our outlook. All that we weave in our imagination, seek and yearn for in our aspiration leave an indelible imprint on our mind. These imprints are often distorted and so our knowledge and the picture of the world around us becomes distorted and improperly focussed. Therefore, understand and set right your thinking first in order to draw correct imprints.
Do not divert all your attention and your energy for acquiring material and worldly pleasures. All these satisfy only the body and the ego. After all, the body ages away, minute by minute. It is to be only a matter of few days, and then closing here and reopening elsewhere. The ways may twist and turn, but when you once reach the top, the spiritual landscape which you discern is exactly is the same. All others who by difficult routes have come up to the top are people who belong to the one family of humanity.
With blessings,
Baba.