Top 280 Sathya Sai Baba Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

52. “A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

53. “Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

54. “Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

55. “As close as you are to God, so close is God to you.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

56. “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

57. “The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

58. “The aim of all spiritual practice is love.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

59. “The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

60. “Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

61. “For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy...”

— Sathya Sai Baba

62. “It is when you experience another’s suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

63. “Travel light, Arrive quickly.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

64. “Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

65. “God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

67. “You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

68. “The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

69. “The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

70. “God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

71. “Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

72. “Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain – grief is an interval between two moments of joy.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

73. “Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

74. “Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

75. “The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

76. “There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

77. “One without health cannot achieve any small thing.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

78. “If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

79. “Control of senses is an important human value.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

80. “My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

83. “Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

85. “Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

86. “The heart with compassion is the temple of God.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

87. “You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

88. “When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

89. “Let love flow so that it cleanses the world.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

90. “Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

91. “When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

93. “Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

94. “Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

95. “When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

96. “True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride, impatience and cowardice .”

— Sathya Sai Baba

97. “Man’s many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

98. “Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

99. “Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

100. “Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.”

— Sathya Sai Baba