Sathya Sai Baba Quotes
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.
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.
Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.
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.
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).
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.
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.
The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.
God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.
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.
Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.
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).
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.
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.
Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.
It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.
Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing everything . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."
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.
