Sathya Sai Baba Quotes

The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see!

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

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.

The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

Be simple and sincere.

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.

Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.

Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.

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.

When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me.

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.

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.

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

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.

This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest ... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.

If there is hatred in your vision, you will see hatred everywhere. Hence, change your vision to start with.

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

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.

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?

Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.

Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

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.

I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me.

Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

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

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

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

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

Never have hatred toward any religion.

The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

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

God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

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

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.

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.

Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord.

Every child is born not only with a stomach that has to be catered to, it is also endowed with two hands which can work and produce the food for the stomach. The hands have to be given the strength and skill; they have to learn the lesson of self-reliance. They should never be lazy or slothful. Then, there can be no deficiency in food and no problem of underfeeding.

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.

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

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

Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar?s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream ...

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.

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

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

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.

The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading the message of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony.

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

Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.

You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

The end of Wisdom is freedom.
The end of culture is perfection.
The end of knowledge is love.
The end of education is character.

God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

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

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

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.

Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

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

Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

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

You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.

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.

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.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

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

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.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the pages of the daily newspaper. This is to be attributed to sheer ignorance and perversity, or pitiable fate.