Causing harm to others is a sign of animality. Offer your bad qualities and bad thoughts to the Lord and God alone will give good things in return!

 The manner of living in which delusion regarding the body (deha-bhranti) is prevalent is animal existence (pashutva). What is delusion regarding the body? It is the identification of the body with the Self (the "I"). This is the mark of animal nature in man. The real meaning of animal sacrifice is the sacrifice of the animal nature in man. Everyone must get rid of Ahamkara and Mamakara (egoism and sense of "mine"). Without sacrificing these animal tendencies, sacrificing dumb animals is unworthy of human beings. God accepts the bad and gives good in return. The word “bali” is used with references to sacrifices in yagas. What is the “bali” to be offered in sacrifices? It is offering one's bad qualities and bad thoughts to the Divine. How can one offer bad things to God? God alone can accept such offerings and give good things in return! No one else in the world will accept the bad and give what is good in return!

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

We all struggle with unwanted and unpleasant thoughts. What do we do at such times?

 There is a soiled and tattered currency note with you. No one is prepared to accept it from you. But when it is tendered to the Reserve Bank, which issued it, it is bound to accept it and issue a new note in return. Likewise, who is competent to accept one's bad thoughts, perverse feelings and evil intentions? Only the Almighty can accept them. He is the Spiritual Reserve Bank that will accept the soiled notes of your mind and give in return good currency (in the form of good thoughts). Hence, offerings should be made only to those who are competent to receive them. All bad thoughts and feelings should be offered to God so that we may receive, by His grace, good thoughts and feelings in return. Spirituality, thus, means transforming one's life into an ideal one by offering one's bad qualities to the Lord and receiving from Him good qualities in return.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Dedicate all actions to God. That is the way to experience oneness with God.

 Activity is the keynote of the Universe. By activity, all beings are born; by activity, they maintain themselves; and through that activity, they perish. Constant breathing, inhaling and exhaling, keeps body temperature even and comfortable. The One beyond all activity assumed the forms of five basic elemental materials - sky, earth, air, fire and water to act and activate. To be active, yet, to be always aware that all is mere acting, is the secret of happiness. That is the Dharma which must regulate and sanctify karma. Achievements of technology which take man to the moon are also events in the Cosmic Drama, where principal performers are working out His plan; identification with adventure, its success or failure will make performers proud or depressed, states which would not help inner peace and joy. The secret of good karma is, to do karma as an act of worship, a dedicatory rite offered to the source of all energy and intelligence. And, never take the consequence to heart. By this means, one can approximate the Divine Principle, which is beyond activity.

BAGAVAN SRI SRI SRI SATHYA SAI BABA