Sathya Sai Baba Quotes

Life is a song - sing it. 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.

Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

The end of education is character

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.

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.

When the sun rises and shines, Not all the lotus buds in the lakes and ponds bloom, Only those that are ready, do. The rest have to bide their time, But all are destined to bloom, All have to fulfill that destiny. There is no need to despair.

Be simple and sincere.

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

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.

Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

Being a good example is the best form of service.

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

Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.

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

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Distance is no bar for the dawn of love, the lotus blooms as soon as the sun peeps over the horizon

Spiritual discipline is the cultivation of Love. Be full of Love. taste the exhilaration that Love can confer. Let everyone see your exuberant with light and joy.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

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

Drop the delusion that you have become old or diseased, or that you have become weak and debilitated. Some people begin to count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death. But remember, elation is heaven, despondency is hell. Have always some work to do, and do it well that you will get joy.

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living beings. Therein lies fulfillment. All men are kin. They are of the same likeness, the same build, molded out of the same material, with the same divine essence in each. Service to man will help your divinity to blossom, for it will gladden your heart and make you feel that life has been worth while. Service to man is service to God, for He is in every man, and every living being, in every stone and stump. Offer your talents at the feet of God. Let every act be a flower, free from the creeping worms of envy and egoism and full of the fragrance of love and sacrifice.

The moment you resent a person, you become his slave. Living with resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other guy to get sick. The person who is the focus of your animosity may be feeling just fine, enjoying life, and not troubled while you are letting them rent space in your brain. Resentment gives you illusions of strength.

Serve others, for they are reflections of the same entity of which you are a reflection. Feel always kinship with all creation.

When the road ends and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself, that the way was long and lonesome, but the God that led him unto it was all the while in him, around him, with him, beside him!

Vairagya (renunciation) does not mean giving up your wife and children and running away to a forest. The removal of the bad qualities in you is the true meaning of vairagya.

Love all. Have faith that God is present in all. Make everybody happy. Only then can you attain happiness. It is impossible for you to attain happiness without making others happy.

It was well known that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were acolytes of Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian guru who died in 2011. They had traveled to India to visit the guru and kept an altar to him in their home. I asked Porras if he was talking about Maduro’s attachment to Sai Baba. It was more than that, he said. “There are two things. He believes in predestination, in fate. Everything that’s going to happen has already been written. There’s not much you can do about it, and it’s already going to happen anyway. And he believes in signs. When Maduro was foreign minister, he was always in a good mood and there was no way to stress him out. He told me more than once that if something was going to turn out badly, he would know because he would have received a sign.

Be fixed in the consciousness that you are the immortal Atma - holy, pure and Divine. This will give you unshakable courage and strength. Then you will develop mutual love and respect.

The whole world's future depends on Bharat's spirituality.