Quotes from Sai Baba

The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.

If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.

Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

My eye is ever on those who love me.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

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!

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.