All individuals have to reach the goal, travelling along the path of wisdom. This knowledge comes as soon as you look into yourselves and analyze your own experience. In order to get the craving for that analysis, you have to educate yourselves into that attitude.  Developing good habits, avoiding bad habits, mixing in the company of the pious, being active in good deeds, serving those in distress - all these steps will lead you into the glorious path of Self-Knowledge.  You must take to this discipline and save yourselves from grief and distress.  I bless that you may get the will to do so and to persist in the spiritual practice, till success is won.

- Sathya Sai Speaks,  Vol 5, Ch 5, Feb 20, 1965. 

"Dedication to the Lord sanctifies all activities." - Baba