The Lamp of Love: Stories by Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba, a man of miracles, was born in 1926, and is a teacher of wisdom, a weaver of stories, metaphorical and allegorical, about the nature and destiny of humanity. He speaks of Atma, the eternal Spirit within, the Self, the breath of God that animates everyone: deathless, fadeless, ageless, infinite, indestructible, unbounded, unchanging, unlimited. Hard to describe a thing so vast and luminous, but it is really the Lamp of Love. Sathya Sai Baba is one of the most majestic spiritual teachers. His stories paint the inner beauty of the Self – its delight, its allure, its Love – and how that Self may be realized and lived fully, sublimely, abundantly: "Darkness will not flee if you throw stones at it; nor will it disappear if you lay about it with a sword, or shoot with a gun. It will be destroyed only when a lamp is lit." "You are shaped by the company you keep . . . Dust can fly if it chooses the wind as its friend; it has to end as slime in a pit if it prefers water. It has neither wing nor foot, yet it can either fly or walk, rise or fall, according to the friend it selects." "Some have faith only in Love, some believe only in Truth, some swear they care only for Goodness – but all these do not know that they are referring to God alone by these names. They too are pilgrims to the same sacred shrine." "Be lamps of love. That contains all."