When divinity is immanent in everything, conscious and un-conscious, in every form of being, how can a thing be condemned as bad or commended as good?
Water quenches thirst and can also drown people. Fire gives light and warmth, but can also burn a thing to ash. Sound terrifies and also thrills. They are all three Divine. Divinity is not so easily understood.
To recognize this Unity, one needs training, though to be deluded by diversity one doesn't need any. For grass to grow quickly, no effort on our part is needed, but if grain is to be harvested, the field must be ploughed, weeded, watered, manured and fenced. So also to get a harvest of virtue, intense sadhana is needed, though no such effort is necessary to contract vices. Man has to struggle hard in order to attain the higher stages of spiritual development. He has to overcome many hurdles and put up with many difficulties and disappointments.
(Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol X, pg 186)
