Sathya Sai Quotes & Sayings

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun. — Sathya Sai Baba

There is only one caste ... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion ... the religion of love. There is only one language ... the language of the heart. — Sathya Sai Baba

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality. — Sathya Sai Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

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

Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being. — Sathya Sai Baba

People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them. — Sathya Sai Baba

A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

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

When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality. — Sathya Sai Baba

Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call "service to God." God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness. — Sathya Sai Baba

Control of senses is an important human value. — Sathya Sai Baba

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster. — Sathya Sai Baba

If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Human values can be listed as 50, 60, 70, 80 in all. But they can be better grouped under the following three heads; pure thoughts, pure words, pure deed; thoughts, words and deed cordinated with one another. — Sathya Sai Baba

Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember
nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand. — Sathya Sai Baba

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety. — Sathya Sai Baba

Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace. — Sathya Sai Baba

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. — Sathya Sai Baba

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you. — Sathya Sai Baba

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment. — Sathya Sai Baba

Your true nature is purity, peace and joy. — Sathya Sai Baba

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor! — Sathya Sai Baba

God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant. — Sathya Sai Baba

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Duty is God;Work is worship. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears. — Sathya Sai Baba

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. — Sathya Sai Baba

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them. — Sathya Sai Baba

Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way. — Sathya Sai Baba

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination. — Sathya Sai Baba

Love helps you to know yourself ... turn your vision inward. — Sathya Sai Baba

The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him. — Sathya Sai Baba

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men. — Sathya Sai Baba

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up. — Sathya Sai Baba

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality. — Sathya Sai Baba

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him. — Sathya Sai Baba

Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the seven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as in the hearts of all beings. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Practise any one of the human values. Prema (love) is the basis for all the values. Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred. — Sathya Sai Baba

At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss. — Sathya Sai Baba

God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God. — Sathya Sai Baba

You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice ... — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life. — Sathya Sai Baba

How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?. — Sathya Sai Baba

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do. — Sathya Sai Baba

Speak with Love and it becomes Truth. — Sathya Sai Baba

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy. — Sathya Sai Baba

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial. — Sathya Sai Baba

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

Love as Thought is Truth. — Sathya Sai Baba

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else. — Sathya Sai Baba

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values. — Sathya Sai Baba

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. — Sathya Sai Baba

Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns. — Sathya Sai Baba

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey. — Sathya Sai Baba

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