Sathya Baba Quotes (875 Quotes)

In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve the Guru and obey him, without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth, he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time, he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.

The science of Yoga was assigned great prominence in the past by Indians.

Examine your mind, your thoughts do not seek the fault ridden person.

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.

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

When you see the world with the eye of divine bliss, you will find bliss everywhere.

He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

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

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

Yesterday has deceived you and gone Tomorrow is a doubtful visitor. Today is a fast friend hold fast to it.

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.

The Grace is available to all who call on Me in any name or form, not merely to those who wear these gifts. Love is the bond that wins that Grace.

Divinity pervades all that you see, hear and feel. Being in the constant company of such an all-pervasive divinity, why should you worry and fear.

Each one must become aware that he is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. It is reprehensible to stick, for one's whole life-time, to the narrow path of selfishness, envy and greed.

Teachers must be examples of LOVE and TRUTH.

Divinity resides in Creation in all forms starting from being more miniscule than the atom to the most colossal ones. It pervades the entire Creation as the eternal witness.

Honor every religion each is a pathway to the one God.

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.

Either the Government must have the capacity to educate and reform the people or the people must have the capacity to educate the Government.

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.

Distinguish right from wrong and be honest, upright and virtuous.

Human desire is illimitable and without end. It makes you pursue the mirage in the desert it makes you build castles in the air it breeds discontent and despair, once you succumb to it.

Despising brother-man, you cannot, at the same time, worship God if you do, God will not accept that hypocrisy. God is resident in every heart so, if you serve any one, that service reaches God within him, it brings to you the Grace of God.

Too much food results in dullness of mind.

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.

I behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise and to warn.

When any educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to make a business out of it. There are only a few who are ready to set up such institutions to provide free facilities for the poor.

Love as Thought is Truth.

In fact there is no strength superior to Love where Love is there everything is. So you must live in God and live in Love then everything shall be right. You must make others also live in Love.

Modesty and devotion to God are real jewels for woman kind. The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

For, the path of love is the royal road that leads mankind to Me.

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.

When you travel by train, you have only to purchase the ticket, enter the proper train and take a seat, leaving the rest to the engine. Why should you carry the bed and trunk on your head So too put your trust in the Lord and carry on to the best of your ability.

I am also the target of such comments, people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill, when for example one dies of illness at this place, how can anyone escape death

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.

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.

To presume that either from wealth or from kith and kin you can derive mental peace is a great error. Such peace only comes from God.

Death is not a deplorable event,It is the journeys end.

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

We owe everything to society and should be grateful to society for all that we receive from it. We have to repay this debt by helping at least as many people as we can.

Parents, are given that name, because it is through them that we have the wonderful chance of life on earth. For the sacrifices that they have made for us, we must PAY RENTS to them.

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

The value of righteousness is expressed through the body. This is related to the physical sheath. Peace can be experienced only in the mental plane.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

You must give up the luggage of your desires and wishes and thus make life less burdensome.

The texts of India insist on the value of actual practice and the need to confirm the truths by experiencing their impact.

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.