Quotes from Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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

The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself.

Be in the world like a maid servant in a rich man's house. The maid servant deals with all the objects and things always knowing that nothing belongs to her and that this is not her true home.

The cementing factor of this unity in multiplicity is Love.

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.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore, Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision.

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

You may have a vast scholarship, fame or fortune. But, the bee can give you a lesson on how to be free from torment

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

Doing one's duty, however small, in an unattached manner gives rise to the awakening of self-awareness.

Even when no one is seeing, God is watching your actions always. Do everything with this awareness.

The mind fixed in the awareness of the ONE is line a rock; unaffected by doubt, stable, secure

I cannot do anything without Godís permission.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.

There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

Distance is no bar for the dawn of love, the lotus blooms as soon as the sun peeps over the horizon

There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

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

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.

Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way?

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!.