Sai Baba Quotes

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

Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.

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.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

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.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

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.

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

The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

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

...Every moment is the right moment.

No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.

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

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.

What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

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

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

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

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

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

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

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

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

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.

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

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to every­one. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.

Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.

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

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

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.

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.

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

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.

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.

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

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

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

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.

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

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