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World Conference 229
“The Priest and the Avatar” by The Rev. Canon John Rossner—Anglican priest and professor of comparative religion at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
“The Avatar’s Time-Clock” by the Hon. Justice Sr. V. Balakrishna Eradi, presently Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court.
“Coming Home” by Peggy Mason, gifted British writer.
“Singular and Plural” by Professor N. Kasturi, Sai Baba’s biographer and noted humorist and professor of history.
“My Beacon” by Dr. V.K. Pillay, orthopedic surgeon and Master, Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
“Communicating Divinity” by Richard Bock, noted Western Sai Baba film maker.
“A Tribute to Baba” by Pandit Ravi Shankar, internationally know sitarist, composer and music director.
“Sri Sathya Sai Baba: The World Phenomenon” by Sri J. Jegathesan, Director, Investment Promotion, Malaysian Industrial Development Authority, Kuala Lumpur.
“My Spiritual Journey to Sathya Sai Baba” by Victor Kanu, former High Commissioner to Sierra Leone in Great Britain, Norway and Sweden.
“The International Problem” by Dr. John S. Hislop, distinguished academician, businessman, administrator, philosopher and president of the Sathya Sai organization in the U.S.
“The Sathya Sai Theory of Education” by Dr. V.K. Gokak, eminent writer, poet, professor and educator.
“One Flower Does Not Make a Garland” by Dr. Somnath Saraf, presently Senior Consultant at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris.
“The Battle of Love” by Nityananda Menon, President, Kingdom of Sathya Sai, and one of the first students to graduate from Sai Baba’s college at Brindavan.
“True to His Nation” by Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Iceland.
“Parapsychology and Sathya Sai Baba” by Er. Karlis Osis, internationally known parapsychologist and Fellow of the American Society for Psychical Research.
2. “The atma is the unseen basis, the substance of all the objective world, the reality behind the appearance, universal and immanent in every being. It is inherently devoid of attachment, is imperishable and does not die. It is the witness, unaffected by all this change in time and space, the immanent spirit in the body, the motivating force of its impulses and intentions. It is one’s own innermost reality, one’s divinity, the real self—the soul.
“The atma cannot be grasped through metaphors and examples. ‘No form can contain it; no name can denote it. How can the limited comprehend the unlimited, the now, measure the ever, the wayward understand the stable? The atma persists unchanged, however many changes the tiling motivated by it might undergo. It contacts the senses of perception and affects the mind; it awakens the intellect to discriminate and decide upon the lines of action. It activates the instruments of thought, speech and action, of expression and communication. The eyes see; but what force prompts them? You may have ears but who endows them with the power of hearing? Words emanate from the mouth; but what urges us and frames the manner and content of the speech? That force acts like the cells in a torch which provide the bulb with the current to illuminate it.


































































































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