Sathya Baba Quotes (875 Quotes)


    The mysteries of creation are marvelous. When two persons meet at any time or place, the differences between them are patent. Their forms and manners differ. They differ in their cleverness and intelligence. Their opinions also vary. Without understanding what underlies these differences, the materialist thinker emphasizes the differences. Today, a growing number of intellectuals, ignoring the unity that underlies the diversity, propagate the cult of differences. The good persons who realize the unity behind the apparent diversity are dwindling in numbers from day to day. This is highly unfortunate.

    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.

    You can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.

    Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave, how can you get faith in the ocean

    It was ascribed to one's past deeds and one's own mental tendencies. It is wrong to cast the blame on others. But, someone pointed out that God was the originator of both joy and grief and that, without His Will, no blade of grass can waver in the wind Yes if that Truth be firmly established in the heart, one gets the unique bliss of liberation.


    Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us, for it is the malady of the present age.

    Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith

    Injury inflicted on any being is sacrilege, self-injury.

    Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love.

    Everyone seeks to know what good he can derive from other individuals or from society.

    Mere formal worship or mechanical routine performance of rituals cannot induce God to recite in the heart.

    God is not so far away. He is not in the heavens above, nor in hell below. He is always near you.

    Mind is like a clear mirror but it is made impure by our desires.

    Living is not enough it has no value by itself. It is the motives, the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.

    Engage yourselves rather in things that will make you immortal and serve your best interests by service to the World

    How is individual transformation to be achieved There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking, drinking liquor, meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness.

    My power is immeasurable My Truth is inexplicable, unfathomable. I am announcing this about Me, for, the need has arisen. But, what I am doing now is only a gift of a visiting card.

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

    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.

    The eye sees the physical body, other individuals, even insects, worms and things. It sees everything that is within its range. The body too is a thing that the eye sees, along with the rest. So, how can we conclude that the body is the I

    I exhort you, Let Truth and Love be the goals for all your efforts and studies.

    This body is just my house. My guru has long ago taken me away from it.

    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.

    Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

    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.

    If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.

    LOVE lives by giving and forgiving. Self lives by getting and forgetting.

    The play is His, The role is His gift, The lines are written by Him

    The fault is in the mirror that reflects, the mind that perceives, the brain that infers. What the mirror presents as true has no authenticity. The mirror is coated with dust and its face is not plain at all. God has no maya He has no intention or need to delude, nor does He will that it should happen.

    Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

    In the matter of acquiring food, different kinds of strength, abilities and skills are used by us but these very same skills are used by animals and birds as well.

    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.

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

    Employ yourself usefully. Be like a trustee, holding on trust, on behalf of God, for the purpose, which He likes and approves.

    You must make the mind the servant of God, not the slave of the senses.

    Embodiments of Love Do not pay attention to the day when the body was born and fulfil selfish ends by celebrating the event pompously.

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

    What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man It is Love, Love for all humanity.

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

    Mind is the battery cell, Intelligence is the switch

    Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.


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

    Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

    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.

    No attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners.

    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.

    Do not shout to a person standing far go near him or beckon to him to approach you. Loud noise is sacrilege on the sky, just as there are sacrilegious uses of earth and of water.

    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


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