Sathya Baba Society Quotations

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

When individuals change, society will change.  And when society changes, the whole world will change.  The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole. 

No one asks himself what good or benefit society derives from him. Start by rendering benefit to society.

What you get from society, give it back to society. That is the primary value to be cherished by everyone.

Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

Understand that society is the source of whatever pleasure one derives and whatever wealth one achieves in life.

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.

Offer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole, then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world.

A society has to be welded into a unit by the consciousness of kinship in God.

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

Everyone goes about trying to see what he can get from society.

No attempt should be made to belittle Society and benefit only the family, for, it is bound to fail.

Society is our primary concern. The Divine is manifest in society.

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