What is more important than the building of temples and going on pilgrimages?

 In past ages, many sages, kings and ascetics left home and dwelt in the solitude of the forests and having earned unlimited bliss themselves, they taught others the source of their bliss, namely, the Divine that is encased in the human. Remove the vices of lust and hatred, and put out the raging flames of anger and greed; then, they said, the innate shantam and soukhyam 

(tranquillity and happiness), the swarupam and swabhavam (one's own form and nature)

of man, will manifest unhindered! Shantam is the swarupam, soukhyam is the swabhavam of man. Individual reconstruction is much more important than the construction of temples. Multiply virtues, not buildings; practise what you preach, that is the real pilgrimage; cleanse your minds of envy and malice, that is the real bath in holy water. Of what avail is the name of the Lord on the tongue, if the heart within is impure?

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba