当人研究，探索，分析并试图了解大自然时，他学到了一课…..违背自然必受自然打击；顺应自然，听从她的警告，她会传达给你不朽的继承物。

身心训练是人致力于达致成功的要素，不论在哪一个领域，经济上的，社会上的，教育上的，抑或仅仅是物质的和世俗的。要取得灵性方面的成就，它更是至关重要。

真正的你是阿特玛（atma）。唯凭借不断的静虑，凭借与善知识交游，凭借聆听高灵的讲道，凭借遵照某种指定的修行课程，你才能对它有所认识。

有关灵性方面，我们越遵守纪律，越努力修炼，我们就越能享受到更多的快乐和平静。

事实上，给人生游戏带来魅力与情趣者就是规则与限制。在足球赛中，如果任何球员可以随心所欲地乱踢而没有犯规或出界，没有越位和进球，没有扔球和罚球，的规则，那么，这球赛就不会有意义也不会带来欢乐了。

圣者已找出令你不受成败得失影响的修行法门并公之于世。要学习之，力行之。在心平气和中培育你自己。

所以人必须得到过去之智慧的指导并在祝愿者，圣者及经书或道德准则所规定的范畴之内，约束其行动以绘制在他之内的良心图表。

你或持有虔诚，你或履行你所受托的义务，但除非你恪守纪律，修养有素，否则，前两者毫无用处。

当世界以憎恨或嘲讽之乌黑洪水涌向你时，抑或，当你所信赖的那些人躲避你时，处此动乱时期，纪律或修养就起作用了。缺乏纪律或修养，人的心念就变成一只野象。你必须在年幼时就抓住它并训练它，以使其力量与技能得以为人所利用而且不至于伤害周遭的生命。

主要关键在于一个审慎的，适时的，调整得当的修养或纪律。它不能一蹴而就，但必须一步一步地爬，每一步都是下一步的立足点…..你必须有系统地去学习每一个课程。学以致用与努力不懈才会带来成功。

你不应该放弃修行的习惯。只有在你达到完美境界时，你才不必去考虑规律与修行。

斯瓦米训示那些外在跟他‘有距离’的人就不如那些跟他‘接近’的人那么严格。人们以他‘接近’的信徒去评断斯瓦米，所以，这一类信徒必须严格地遵守行为准则。

一般上，我说话的语气温和，但在有关修行或纪律方面，我就不会让步…..我会坚持绝对服从。我不会降低严格的要求来迁就你的层次，因为那只会摧毁你。我关注你终极的利益。

然而，有人问这样的问题，“那么，为什么我们看不到神呢？”是的，他是牛奶里的奶油，完完整整的，在每一滴之中。若要看到奶油，一些程序必须加以进行 – 煮沸，使凝结，搅拌等等。那么同样，借某些灵修，如持名等，你就可以看到寓于内心的他；内在的神就可以被体验为真的了。

生于教堂是好的，但死于教堂就不好了。从限制与规律之中，从围住你思想自由的教义之中，从会局限和转向的仪式之中，培育与拯救你自己。攀登至一个高度；在那儿，教会已无关重要；在那儿，所有的路终止；从那儿，所有的路伸展。

The lesson is learned by man when he studies nature, analyzing it and trying to understand it…Break the laws of nature and she boxes you in the ear; obey her commands and listen to her warnings and she will pass on to you your heritage of immortality.

Discipline is essential for the success of every endeavor of man, whatever the field, whether it be economic, social, educational, or merely material and worldly. It is even more essential for success in spiritual effort.

The real you is the atma. This can be learned only by constant meditation, by moving in good company, by listening to the talks of realized men, by following some prescribed course of discipline. That is why I lay so much emphasis on discipline.

In spiritual matters, the more we subject ourselves to discipline, the more joy and peace we are able to enjoy.

In fact, it is the rules and the restrictions that give charm to the game of life. In the game of football, if any player can do anything with the ball and there is neither foul nor out, neither offside nor goal, neither throw nor penalty, then it will be a meaningless game incapable of giving ananda (joy).

The sages have discovered the disciplines that will keep you unaffected by defeat or victory, loss or gain. Learn them, practice them. Establish yourself in unruffled peace.

So man has to be guided by the wisdom of the past, the bounds prescribed by his well-wishers, the sages, the sastras (holy texts) or moral codes laid down to map the conscience in him.

Sathya Sai Speaks 6, p.109

You may have devotion, you may discharge the duty entrusted to you, but unless you are saturated in discipline, the other two are useless.

Discipline comes to the rescue during crisis when the world flows toward you as a dark flood of hate or derision, or when those in whom you have put your trust shun contact and shy away. Without discipline, the mind of man is turned into a wild elephant in a rut. You have to catch it young and train it so that its strength and skill can be useful to man and harmless to life around.

It is chiefly a matter of careful, well-timed, regulated discipline. It cannot be obtained by spurts and skips, but must be climbed step by step, each step being used as a foothold for the next…You have to learn each lesson by systematic study. Application and effort alone will give success.

You should never give up the habit of discipline. When you reach the state of perfection only, you do not have to think of regulations or discipline.

People, those outwardly “distant” from Swami, he tells, but not so severely as those “near”. People judge Swami by his “near” devotees and so these individuals must follow very strict standards of behavior.

Generally, I speak sweet, but on this matter of discipline, I will not grant any concessions.… I will insist on strict obedience. I shall not reduce the rigor to suit your level, for that will only ruin you. I pay attention to your ultimate good.

But the question is asked, “Then why is he (God) not seen?” Well, he is as butter is in milk, in every drop, through and through. If butter is to be seen, then certain processes have to be done – boiling, curdling, churning, etc. So, too, by certain spiritual disciplines like repeating the name on the tongue, he who dwells in the heart can be visualized; the immanent God can be experienced as real.

It is good to be born in a church, but it is not good to die in it. Grow and rescue yourselves from the limits and regulations, the doctrines that fence your freedom of thought, the ceremonial rites that restrict and redirect. Reach the point where churches do not matter, where all roads end, from where all roads run.