Sri Sathya Sai Bhagawan

The joy of being the master of senses is far greater than being their slave.-Baba

I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. -Baba

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it! -Baba

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns. -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! -Baba

Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. -Baba

What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them. -Baba

Before you speak, think -Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence? -Baba

Always respect another's opinion and another's point of view. -Baba

Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard. -Baba

“Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn. -Baba

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service. -Baba

“Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.” -Baba

Once we surrender our mind to GOD completely, HE will take care of us in every way. -Baba

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

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

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it. -Baba

“Instead of focusing on the external characteristics of others, you focus on their inner feelings, particularly as it is reflected in their behavior and expressions. You gauge the thoughts in another's mind and the feelings in their hearts by carefully watching what they say and do. When you have this kind of vision, you become concerned primarily with the deeper feelings and motivations of the other person” -Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. -Baba

“God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask, with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart, the purity of mind, the holiness of motive.” -Baba

Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS. -Baba

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities, selfless service cannot be performed. -Baba

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.1 -Baba

The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself. -Baba

Willingness to compromise with others’ ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. -Baba

The cure that Baba has given us for this malady, is service. Service slowly and steadily broadens one's heart, bringing with it an unexpected feeling of happiness, and it begins to transform the community around us as well. -Baba

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever. -Baba

The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD. -Baba

“IF the parent is a drunkard, a gambler and a cheat, no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents, and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.” -Baba

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

If God is a flower, you should feel yourself a bee that sucks its honey; -Baba

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

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

Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss. -Baba

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

“Let us grow together, enjoy together;” -Baba

Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours. -Baba

“LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.” -Baba

“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.” -Baba

“Love is your life, your friend, your relative, your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart, the poison of evil will have no place in it.” -Baba

“Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love,This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.” -Baba

Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God. -Baba

My birthday is the date when divinity blossoms in your heart. -Baba

Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? -Baba

The mind sees separateness, LOVE sees unity. -Baba

One who is addicted to intoxicating drinks and meat eating and leads a sensuous life is a demonic being.Such a person is intensely selfish and has no feeling or consideration for others. -Baba

“In order to acquire Divinity, in order to find out the Divinity within us, if you want to know yourself, you should develop PURE LOVE. It is this bond of Love that binds everybody. This is the bond of Love.” -Baba

“I - Want – Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.” -Baba

“Love alone can overcome obstacles, however many and mighty.” -Baba

“Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.” -Baba

I shall be with you, wherever you are, guarding you and guiding you. March on, have no fear. -Baba

Duty is God; Work is worship. Even the tiniest work is a flower placed at the Feet of God. -Baba

Cultivate nearness with Me in the heart and it will be rewarded. Then you too will acquire a fraction of that Supreme Love. -Baba

Your heart must be transparent, like glass, with spiritual light within illuminating the whole world. -Baba

Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual. -Baba

The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do but in liking what one has to do. -Baba

The end of wisdom is freedom; The end of culture is perfection; The end of knowledge is love; The end of education is character. -Baba

First you must grapple with the fact that duty is God and start doing your duty. -Baba

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu. -Baba

Transmuting "man" into "God" and experiencing that Ananda or Bliss is the one and only achievement for which life is to be devoted. -Baba

The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego. -Baba

The treasure that is precious is the quality of even mindedness in all situations. -Baba

Your progress is reflected back as Grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice. -Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world. -Baba

Virtue is the sign of the educated person. This is what makes education worthwhile. -Baba

God can be felt and experienced only in the deepest depths of silence. -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. -Baba

To help the helpless is the only way to please, follow and reach Him. -Baba

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

You are in the Light, then the Light is in you, You are the Light. -Baba

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

Devotion has to be unintermittent, uninterrupted, like the flow of oil from one vessel to another. -Baba

Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes. -Baba

Man minus immorality is Immortality. -Baba

God is for those, who are not for themselves. -Baba

So long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart has love, peace and devotion, you feel the bliss. -Baba

If you will not rise above the things of the world, they will rise above you. -Baba

Praying is your task; what happens to the prayer is dependent on the Grace of God. -Baba

Seek out your faults and others' merits. Seeking others' faults is dire sin. -Baba

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. -Baba

Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education. -Baba

True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride, impatience and cowardice. -Baba

Follow the Master; Face the devil; Fight to the end; Finish the goal. -Baba

If animal feelings are washed out, Divine feelings begin to overflow instead. -Baba