You should not choose God for the benefits He can shower on you. Do not expect God to satisfy your worldly or material ambitions; and when they are not realised, do not desert the path towards God. "Baba, appear in my dream this night," you demand, and if it does not happen He is not Sai Baba, he is Rai Baba (stone Baba) and you go in search of some other God who will be at your beck and call. You must hold on to your faith, whatever might happen, success or failure, appointment or disappointment. When God is your very core, irremovably fixed in your consciousness, there will be no room for elation or dejection. God is bliss, and when God is the undying spring in you, you will have bliss for ever.
- From Bhagawan's Birthday Discourse in 1973.
