Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster. I have not come on behalf of any exclusive religion. I have not come on a mission of publicity for a sect or creed or cause, nor have I come to collect followers for a doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into my fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this unitary faith, this spiritual principle, this path of Love, this virtue of Love, this duty of Love, this obligation of Love.
Travel light, Arrive quickly.
In the beginning you can think, "The world is like a stage. I am only an actor. God is the director. All are His instruments, all are just actors. He is directing everything." But do not always remain at that level. Move on. Think, "I am the unchanging Atma, not this changing personality and body."
...Every moment is the right moment.
Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.
God has no beginning and no end.
Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.
The heart with compassion is the temple of God.
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
Let us grow together, enjoy together.
God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.
Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.
Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.
See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
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 asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere.
Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.
Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call service to God. God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.
Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.
Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
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.
Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.
Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.
Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.
Love is everything. Love is God. Live in love.
The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
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.
Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.
As close as you are to God, so close is God to you.
The end of education is character
God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.
The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.
On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical embodiment had left the world, in spite of plenty of evidences of His Grace. But, ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it that brings to It the adoration of millions from all over the world? You will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this is the Supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.
When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.
The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
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.
Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.
Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.
Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.
The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.
Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.
Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.
God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.
Love must express itself as service
Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.
God rewards according to the mannerin which He is conceived or approached.
Discipline is the mark of intelligent living.
Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.
All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.
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.
I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.
Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.
If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.
Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.
Speak with Love and it becomes Truth.
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.
Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.
For the Atma there is no time and there is no form. It is beyond time and beyond form.
Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.
You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.
Be happy. Think, "O Lord, You are my everything. You are my goal. You are my breath." Do not think, "This is mine, that is mine." Instead think, "All is You. All is Yours."
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you have to do.
Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
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.
The individual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a second, when the Atma is everywhere, where is the individual? Only in your imagination. The Atma alone is real. Realize it through meditation.
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.
There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.
Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.
I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.
LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.
Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!
The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.
Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.
You can remain in the world for any number of years, but don't let the world take hold. Don't let the world take hold of the inside world. There is the example of the lotus. It stays deep down in the mud. It comes up to the light, and it can't stay without water because it would die. But it does not get mixed up either with the mud or the water. You have seen the lotus; even if the water comes it just goes off again. Now, when they talk of God, they always say 'the lotus eyes, the lotus feet' because of this inner significance.
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?
You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.
Real happiness lies within you.
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.
When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.
Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.
All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to everyone. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.
First comes Self-confidence, that is the foundation. Then comes Self-satisfaction, it is like the wall. Next comes self-sacrifice, it is like the roof. Finally the house is complete and the Indweller is installed inside; that is Self-realization. It starts with Self-confidence and it ends with realizing the Self.
Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world.
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.
Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember - nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.
The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as separate; it sees everything as dual. You must remove this ego and see only the Unity. Think only of Unity; think only of the basis of everything.
All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.
Without Grace you cannot do anything.
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
Being a good example is the best form of service.
