Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Let us grow together, enjoy together;.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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