As early as possible teach your children this life-preserving, glorious and expansive truth: the sanctifying vision we must imbibe is that the Atma is full and free. It is a wonderful discovery, a thrilling thought! The Atma by its very nature is full; fullness need not be attained or accomplished and added to. If fullness is added to, it can also be subtracted from by the passage of time; what is built up must necessarily disintegrate. If we are impure by nature, even though we may succeed in achieving purity for a short while, later we will have to face our own impurity again, for the purity that comes in the middle will be easily swept away by circumstances. Therefore, all Bharathiya (ancient Indian) spiritual thinkers declared that purity is our very nature and that fullness is our genuine reality, and that we are never really ‘wanting’.
- Sathya Sai Vahini, Chap 6, "Religion is Experience".
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