Sai Baba Quotes

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers.
Advaita Philosophy

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

Life is a game ... play it.
Life is a challenge ... meet it.
Life is a dream ... realize it.
Life is a sacrifice ... offer it.
Life is love ... enjoy it.

Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life-

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

Everyone's God is One.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Education must promote peace, security and happiness.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

The universe is a great university.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.