Sathya Baba Quotes on Man (75 Quotes)


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

    Every sense is an outlet for the energy of man in a direction that binds him to the objective world.

    If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, water it with love so that human values will grow.

    The Lord too has to come in human form and moves about among men, so that He could be listened to, contacted, loved, revered and obeyed. He has to speak the language of men and behave like human beings, as the member of the species,Otherwise, He would be either negated and neglected or feared and avoided.

    The greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.


    We see flowers of all kinds. Men are able to make plastic flowers of the same kind. But can any one fill the plastic flowers with the native fragrance that is got from natural flowers This is possible only by the Divine.

    It is the harmony, peace and mutual love between men and women that brings happiness and peace to the family. People want happiness in the family, but they do not lead exemplary lives. The fault lies with both the husband and the wife.

    To exercise freedom in its true sense, man has to respect the five basic values.It is in that freedom he will find true bliss.

    In fact, service is the first step along the spiritual path, for service to man is service to God.

    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.

    To achieve release, man kneels before a million Gods, in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached, he is freed indeed

    The body will shine if the character is fine service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

    Men should try to understand women, and women should try to understand men.

    A bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.

    Whatever acts a good or bad man may do, the fruits thereof follow him and will never stop pursuing him.

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

    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

    Man thinks himself that he knows everything but, when asked about himself, he hangs down his head in shame.

    The unity of the three Hs is essential. Heart, Head and Hand. But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

    I have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.

    Every moment, many are born and many die. But man has to discover how to 'avoid' death.

    Man falsely imagines I am doing this , I am planning this . It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect.

    Happiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well, clothed well, housed well, and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions, with no injury to health or security.

    The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatars message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.

    Life has to be lived through, for the sake of the chance to unfold the virtues.Otherwise, man is a burden upon the earth, a consumer of food.

    From the narrow vision of 'individual need', man must voyage out into the broad vision of the 'Universal'. When a drop of water falls into the Ocean, it loses its narrow individuality, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the Ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop', it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence.

    Man strays away into misery and pain, because he loses the sense of value and runs after the temporary and the trivial. He ignores the voice of God which warns and guides him from within and he pays the penalty for the transgression.

    Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

    Today's man is pursuing unrestrained sense cravings. These pursuits drag man's mind into the gutter.

    Service expresses the divinity hidden in man. It broadens one's heart, it destroys narrow-mindedness, and it gives delight. The evil qualities and tendencies in us can be driven away through service.

    Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values.


    It is love that shines brilliantly in every individual. But man, not being able to comprehend the significance of love attributes physical relationship to it. The love of a mother towards her child is affection.

    Agriculture is for living mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

    I am a man amongst men, when they see Me, I appear as a man. Amongst woman, I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone, I am God. This is the truth about Me.

    Man degrades himself by consuming intoxicating drinks and non-vegetarian food and by indulging in smoking. These noxious habits affect the brain also.

    Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

    When the coaches receives from you such treatment, how much worse treatment you deserve for not fulfilling your duty and for disappointing the expectations that you have raised by your being a man

    A characterless man is like a pot with many holes, useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace.

    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.

    Man has to follow righteousness. He has to cultivate love. he has to live in peace. He has to observe nonviolence.

    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.

    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.

    What is the freedom a man can enjoy Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.

    There is sweet water inside a tender coconut. Who poured the water inside the coconut Was it the work of any man No. Only the Divine can do such a thing.

    The world itself is a great teacher, a constant guide and inspiration. That is the reason why man is surrounded and sustained by the world.

    When Love can bring even God nearer to you, how can it fail where man is involved

    Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

    There are many who have all these in plenty but who are yet worried or in pain or discontented. They depend on the inner equipment of man, not his outer skill or riches.

    Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.


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