If only people knew the path to permanent joy and peace, they will not wander distracted among the bye-lanes of sensual pleasure.  When you die, you must die not like a tree or a beast or a worm, but like a individual who has realized that He/she is God. That is the consummation of all the years you spend in the human frame. 

- Sathya Sai Speaks,  Vol 3, Ch 11, Apr, 1963.

"When one approaches the Lord, even objective desires will be transmuted into higher spheres of purity.  Nothing impure can stand the presence of the Lord" - Baba