“Today man is putting his senses to misuse and as a result his body is becoming weaker day by day. He shortens his life-span by his unsacred vision and by indulgence in sensual pleasures. Lakhs of light rays in his eyes are being destroyed because of his unsacred vision. That is the reason what man is developing eye defects.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

Discourse on 5/7/2001 in Sanathana Sarathi (August 2001) p. 226

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