Quotes from Sathya Sai Baba

How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

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

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

The end of education is character

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

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.

The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

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."