Sathya Sai Baba quotes:

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  • Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!

  • Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

  • Baba's words and actions have lit the lamp of love in the hearts of devotees and they will always remember him for the good things he has done.

  • God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

  • Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

  • Heart is consciousness, I is Baba.

  • The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.

  • Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

  • Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the last fifteen years. That the world is not in total destruction is due to the change of mind of Sai devotees and to Sai's grace.

  • Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

  • There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.

  • Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  • The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.

  • Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

  • You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

  • I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.

  • I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.

  • Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

  • Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

  • All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

  • Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.

  • Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the seven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as in the hearts of all beings.

  • Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

  • The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.

  • Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

  • Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel...

  • A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

  • Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

  • God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

  • You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

  • So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world.

  • Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.

  • One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

  • Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

  • The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

  • Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  • PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I . The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I . And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.

  • Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

  • Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

  • Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

  • My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.

  • The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?

  • The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

  • YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

  • We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

  • Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

  • Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

  • Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

  • Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.

  • At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.

  • There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love

  • Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember -- nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.

  • You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!

  • Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

  • Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

  • To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

  • The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

  • A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

  • LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  • Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

  • Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

  • The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

  • Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

  • Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

  • He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

  • Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

  • All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.

  • The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.

  • Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

  • Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.

  • Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

  • Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.

  • The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

  • There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.

  • Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

  • The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.

  • No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

  • Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.

  • All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

  • ...Every moment is the right moment.

  • Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

  • Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.

  • Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

  • People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

  • If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.

  • God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

  • The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.

  • When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.

  • The man filled with good qualities like Truth, Love, absence of jealousy, ego and hatred, can see God without searching for Him. He becomes a Jnani (a man of spiritual wisdom).

  • For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy...

  • Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

  • Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

  • It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.

  • You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.

  • In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

  • Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

  • When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

  • ...Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world...

  • A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

  • A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.

  • A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.

  • A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

  • Adore God, abhor sin.

  • Adore man, the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service.

  • Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

  • All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

  • All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.

  • Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty.

  • Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.

  • As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.

  • As close as you are to God, so close is God to you.

  • Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement.

  • At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.

  • Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.

  • Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.

  • Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

  • Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

  • Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

  • Being a good example is the best form of service.

  • Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!

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