Quotes from Sathya Sai Baba

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

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

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

Love must express itself as service

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.

All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.

I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.

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

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.

Travel light, Arrive quickly.

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 as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.

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.

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God.

Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.