The primary aim should be to become Masters of yourselves, to hold intimate and constant communion with the Divine that is in you as well as in the Universe of which you are a part. Welcome disappointments, for they toughen you and test your fortitude. (SSS Vol. 6, p. 48)
It is highly important to take care of the health of children. Good health is the basis of everything else in life. The condition of the children in the backward countries is pitiable. Most of them lack nourishing food, proper clothes and roofs over their heads. They are undernourished and weak and suffer from many ailments. Every day 40,000 children are dying on account of malnutrition in the third world countries. I wish the affluent people did something to help these hapless children. They should not be satisfied with their own prosperity and welfare. They have a duty towards those less fortunately placed than themselves. They should go to the help of the poor and the weak not in a spirit of condescension or of extending patronage. They must offer help out of genuine sympathy and fellow-feeling. They must regard such sympathy as one of the primary aims of meaningful living. (SSS Vol.16)
Men go through any amount of difficulties, hardships, trials and tribulations in life, but few try to understand their essential Divinity, which should be the primary aim of life. Men devote considerable care and attention to the preservation of the body which is perishable. But they do not cultivate good thoughts and do good deeds through which they can attain enduing bliss. (SSS Vol.18)
The Godward mind results in detachment. The world-directed mind leads to attachment. Hence, turning the mind towards God must be man’s primary aim. (SSS Vol.23)
Man’s primary aim should be to recognise the unity that underlies the diversity in the phenomenal world. To break up what is one into many pieces is easy. But it is difficult to bring them together into a meaningful unit. It is in the unifying process that the utility of things can be understood. The role of both diversity and unity in life has to be properly understood. When a tailor has to stitch a bush coat out of a piece of cloth, he has first to cut it into various pieces and then stitch them together to make a bush coat. The scissors are used to cut the cloth. The needle is used to stitch the different pieces. Today human beings trend to behave like the scissors rather than as the needle. With the result that all man’s intelligence is being used to divide society rather than unify it. (SSS Vol.29)
Man’s primary aim should be to achieve Atma Jnana (Self-knowledge). The first step in this quest for Self-Knowledge is to understand the nature of man. (SSS Vol.23)
Control of the senses should be one of the primary aims of students. (SSS Vol.23)
Every man’s primary aim should be to devote himself to selfless activities. Man has been endowed with the human body for rendering service to others. This is an ancient maxim. Through service to others, divinity can be experienced. (SSS Vol.23)
The acquisition of the love of God should be the primary aim of members of the Sai organizations. The spiritual path is the easiest to follow. The giving up of worldly desires is easier than clinging to them. Hold fast to God. (SSS Vol.28)