Certain people declare that prayer can bring about world peace and ask people to pray. Of course, it is good to pray; but peace can never be gained by that alone. Prayer must be united with practice. You should not pray for one thing and practise another. Such prayer is only a means of deception. While repeating prayers for world peace, if you cannot patiently put up with others, if you slander others and look down upon them, you yourself will have no peace, you will have turmoil instead! And, with the turmoil, you will have all the attendant sorrow and pain! When food is taken by the hand to the mouth, chewed, and swallowed, the essence spreads to every part of the body; so also, if the hands are engaged in acts promoting peace and the tongue is engaged in prayers for peace, by these two means, the essence of peace will spread into parts of the world, which is but the body of the Lord.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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