Sathya Baba Quotes on Joy & Excitement (24 Quotes)

Men are born with a helpless lamenting cry they should die with a smile of happy joy.

Those who seek to acquire steadiness of faith must first acquire the strength to bear grief and pain, insult and injury. The succession of joy and grief must help confirm the faith and make it immovable. That alone can evidence true devotion.

Have faith in God and in the correctness of moral living. Then, you can have peace and joy, whatever may be the fare that fortune offers you.

Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon, man has to take with him, his fears, his anxieties, his prejudices and his pet aversions.

A virtuous character is the lamp which illumines the path to peace and joy.

You cannot be fresh and feeling fine, wearing a washed vest under an unwashed shirt or, an unwashed vest over a washed shirt. Both have to be clean, to provide a sense of tingling joy. So too outer and inner cleanliness is but the reflection of the inner achievement.

THE airplane has to land at a certain place in order to take in those who have reserved the right to fly by the tickets that they have purchased. So too the Lord has to come down so that those who have won the right to be liberated may be saved. Incidentally, others too will know of the Lord, of His Grace and ways of winning it and of the joy of liberation. There are some who deny even today the possibility of air-travel they curse the contrivance. They cavil at it. Similarly there are many who cavil at the Avatar that has come to save them.

Yes, I will give to those who give of themselves, untold Joy and Bliss and what is more, I will lead them by the hand along those petal strewn paths of Eternal Joy.

Diamond, Why do you seek a diamond to give you joy Seek instead the state of DIE MIND, which will give you pure and lasting joy.

The experience of this one life must be enough to show you that there is no joy unmixed with grief, that both grief and joy are short-lived and they both depend on the mind and its control. You do not require the experience of a series of lives to grasp this patent fact.

This body is the residence of God. The food you take is the offering you make to him. Your act of bathing is the ceremonial bathing of Him who is in You. The ground you walk on is His domain. The joy you gain is His gift. The grief you experience is His lesson. Remember Him ever, in sun and rain, day and night, asleep and awake.

Greed yields only sorrow contentment is best.

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

God has given enough avenues of joy in creation. But they have to be shared and enjoyed. You are entitled to just your share of it.

Peace can be got only through Faith Faith is the spring of Joy. But now we see Sorrow, wherever we cast our eyes. Why does this happen Because, man has lost Faith. He has no Faith in himself. How then can he acquire Ananda How can a person, how has not got Faith enough to live happily for a few days, win the Grace of God

Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

There is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits.

God is omnipresent. He is the in-dweller of every heart and all names are His. You can call Him by any name that gives you joy. You must not cavil at other names and forms, nor become fanatics, blind to their glory.

You must not be a bit of blotting paper, absorbing all the passions and emotions, all the joys and grief that the actress of Nature demonstrates of the stages of life.

If you identify yourselves with the body that you carry about with you, you are inviting sorrow and suffering to overwhelm you instead of the joy and peace which are awaiting to bless you.

If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it, overcome it -- You will have peace, joy and calm. In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure it is the Path of Love.

Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is, strengthen the inward vision.

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.