Grace is needed

God's grace is the greatest wealth. To consider the amassing of money, gold or other material objects as the ultimate goal is not right. The goal of life instead, should be the acquisition of the divine wealth of God's grace. Try to win His grace by reforming your habits, reducing your desires and refining your nature. One step makes the next one easier; that is the unique quality of the spiritual path. With each step, your strength and confidence increases and you feel the Lord's grace all the more.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Behaviour

Today, people’s behaviour is not good because their thoughts are polluted. And because their thoughts and actions have become perverted, the country is passing through troubles and turmoil. People have filled their mind with thoughts of mundane, ephemeral, and transient things. These thoughts are negative in nature; only those based on Truth are positive. If the feelings and intentions behind your actions are good, the results will also be good. Sacred thoughts, good words, and noble deeds are the true human values. Thoughts are your permanent assets. As is the thought, so is the mind. If thoughts are good, humanity will blossom into Divinity.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 18, 1999.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

This is where changes must come in us, the body is not the way for transformation.
Dr Krishna Raman

The mind and asana

Using our mind to properly execute an asana has nothing to do with using our mind to live life. These are 2 separate issues.
Living life is how we cultivate our attitudes to life and its vicissitudes. Doing an asana is the art of controlling the body with finnese.
The latter has nothing to to with our evolution as it deals only with the body.

Mind control

Mind control is more heroic and beneficial than any other system of control.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Divinity

Divinity is one, and is the real basis for the Universe. Like the string for a garland and the foundation for a multi-storey building, Divinity penetrates and holds together everything and everyone; it is the foundation for the structure of the Universe. Only the flowers and buildings are visible to your eyes, not the string and the foundation. Unless you invest time and effort to reason it out, they escape your attention. That does not mean they are non-existent! Never be misled by the aadheya (the contained, the thing held) into denying the Aadhaar (the basis, the container). For the Seen, there is an Unseen Basis. To grasp the Unseen, the best means is inquiry, and the right proof is experience. For those who have experienced, no description is needed.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Patanjali and inner self

Patanjali's sutras must not be interpreted to the physical postures. This is incorrect. An analogy can be used but his sutras are for our inner evolution- not bodily perfection. The body can never be made perfect with asanas however long we try or whoever tries- so lets focus on our inner selves.

Body and indweller

The body is only an instrument- lets keep it healthy but not worship it. Too much body culture is not appropriate, culturing our heart and mind is needed.

Rely on the divine

Let us not rely on our asans to save us, rather rely on the divine alone.