Sathya Baba Quotations

Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

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

Vedanta is the legitimate property of every section, every caste, every community, and every race, of the followers of any faith and persons of both sexes.

Work disinterestedly. Content to do one's duty as best as one can.

When your heart is filled with love, you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos.

The reforming process involves the removal in daily living of bad conduct and bad habits and the practice of good conduct and good deeds.

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

Women should take the correct path then men will follow suit, as it is the women who have to take the leading role. The wife is half of the husband; if she becomes good, then her husband, who is the other half, will also become good.

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

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

Wealth has to be earned through Righteousness. Desire has to be for Liberation.

Yes, I will give to those who give of themselves, untold Joy and Bliss; and what is more, I will lead them by the hand along those petal strewn paths of Eternal Joy.

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?

The face has to be washed day after day. One meal is not the end of the story; you have to eat, again and again.

There is a strange glow on the face of a guileless person. Inner cleanliness has its own soap and water - the soap of strong faith and the water of constant practice.

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. 

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle.

The only permanent change is slow, steady change.

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.

When you develop your power of discrimination and become fully awake to the indwelling divinity, you will not suffer sorrow nor be subjected to fear.

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.

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.

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.

Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is, strengthen the inward vision.

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

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 is a prisoner of his senses as long as these two keep him under guard.

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Life would be stale if there were no trials and difficulties. It is these difficulties which bring out the human values in man.

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

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.

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

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

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.

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.

Let us live and move in harmony.  Let us grow together.  Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.

Make positive approach turning towards Divinity. The difference lies only in turning your mind.

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

Make the heart big and the mind pure.

Let your whole life be a spiritual song.

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together;

Let God work through you and there will be no more duty. Let God shine forth. Let God show Himself. Live God, Eat God. Drink God. Breathe God. Realize the Truth and the other things will take care of themselves.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Let the different faiths exist; let them flourish and the glory of God be sung in all the languages and in a variety of tunes.

Let the day dawn for you and others with thought of the Almighty, the Compassionate, and the Omnipresent self-knowing God. What greater service can you do to yourself and others? This will give you health and happiness.

Love is life for man and love is everything in this world.

Love is essential to become a complete human being.

Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.

Love God with all your heart,With all your soul

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

Love...doesn't allow any room for pettiness or narrow outlook.

Love and serve the homeland; do not hate or hurt the homeland of others.

Love alone can overcome obstacles, however many and mighty.

Love all men without distinction; Know that mankind is a single community.

Love all and serve all. Your entire life will be sanctified thereby.

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

Love must flow not from the tongue or from the head only, but chiefly from the heart.

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

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

Love is your life, your friend, your relative, your food and your everything. Heart that is filled with love can never be polluted. Love is nectarine. Once you fill it in your heart, the poison of evil will have no place in it.

Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.

Love is the form of Brahman (The Supreme Reality)Brahman is love Divine.

Love is the basis of all forms of worship of which Abraham was the human prototype.

Love is one; it transcends caste, color and creed, if it has to be genuine.

Look to me and I will look to you.

Let all beings in all the worlds be happy). Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

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

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

Learn to give, not to take. Learn to serve, not to rule.

Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.

Secure spiritual bliss first and then try to convey it to those who thirst. When the tank is dry, how can the taps give water?

Soft sweet speech is the expression of genuine love.

So long as you say I am . there is bound to be fear, but once you say and feel I am GOD , you get unconquerable strength.

So long as the sugar is on the tongue, you feel the sweetness in taste. Similarly, so long as the heart has love, peace and devotion, you feel the bliss.

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.

Since at this place, those who have devotion have gathered and people of all nations have come, I cannot but tell you one fact.

Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself  in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.

Since I know the past, the background, My reaction is different. If only you knew, you too will react differently. It is the consequences of the evil, deliberately done in the previous births, and so I have to allow the suffering to continue, modified often by some little compensation. I do not cause either joy or grief; you are the designer of both the chains.

Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.

Mind prompts man to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Mind is the battery cell, Intelligence is the switch  

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

Mind is but a bundle of thoughts, a complex of wants and wishes.

Mind is a wonder,It has no distinct form or shape.

Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.

Mind can have peace only when it merges in the Absolute Consciousness, Primal Cause and the Unchanging Existence.

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.

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

Men are becoming the targets of various types of mental ailments.

Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well.