Baba Quotes

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

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

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

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

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

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

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.

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

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

The best form to see God in... is in every form

The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.

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

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

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.

God has no beginning and no end.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

When you realize the Atma then there is no individual.

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

Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.

Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.

You do not have to practise all that you read. Take one or two things to practise and then it will become a reality to you.

As worldly thoughts diminish, thoughts of God increase. Normally, the mind is all the time desiring these worldly things. As the desires are cut out one by one, the peace becomes stronger.

There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.

God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.

Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

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

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

True beauty lies in true education.

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.