Top 60 Sai Baba Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.”

— Sai Baba

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2. “No joy can equal the joy of serving others.”

— Sai Baba

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3. “Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it.”

— Sai Baba

4. “Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one’s heart.”

— Sai Baba

5. “It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.”

— Sai Baba

6. “Character is the most precious gift of education.”

— Sai Baba

7. “The universe is a great university.”

— Sai Baba

8. “You seek too much information and not enough transformation.”

— Sai Baba

9. “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.”

— Sai Baba

10. “The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.”

— Sai Baba

11. “Education must promote peace, security and happiness.”

— Sai Baba

12. “The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.”

— Sai Baba

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

— Sai Baba

14. “Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one’s own strength.”

— Sai Baba

15. “Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.”

— Sai Baba

16. “There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.”

— Sai Baba

17. “Everyone’s God is One.”

— Sai Baba

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

— Sai Baba

19. “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!”

— Sai Baba

20. “The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.”

— Sai Baba

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

— Sai Baba

22. “Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.”

— Sai Baba

23. “Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.”

— Sai Baba

24. “Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

— Sai Baba

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

— Sai Baba

26. “Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.”

— Sai Baba

27. “What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.”

— Sai Baba

28. “It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.”

— Sai Baba

29. “Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.”

— Sai Baba

30. “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.”

— Sai Baba

31. “Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.”

— Sai Baba

32. “A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.”

— Sai Baba

33. “The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.”

— Sai Baba

34. “True beauty lies in true education.”

— Sai Baba

35. “To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.”

— Sai Baba

36. “The learned man’s life itself shines as the message for mankind.”

— Sai Baba

37. “Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.”

— Sai Baba

38. “Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.”

— Sai Baba

39. “I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.”

— Sai Baba

40. “True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.”

— Sai Baba

41. “Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.”

— Sai Baba

42. “Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.”

— Sai Baba

43. “Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.”

— Sai Baba

44. “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.”

— Sai Baba

45. “College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.”

— Sai Baba

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

— Sai Baba

47. “Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.”

— Sai Baba

48. “Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.”

— Sai Baba

49. “The objective of education should be impressed on the children’s minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.”

— Sai Baba

50. “You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.”

— Sai Baba