Top 280 Sathya Sai Baba Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel...”

— Sathya Sai Baba

152. “Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

153. “Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father’s kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

154. “Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

155. “The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values – Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

156. “No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

157. “God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness; you must strive hard to earn the love of God.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

158. “God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

159. “Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

160. “Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

161. “To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

162. “God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

163. “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.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

164. “God will certainly be pleased if you give water for the thirsty, bread for the hungry and clothes to the naked.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

165. “Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

166. “As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

167. “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.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

168. “Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

169. “If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

170. “Without the confidence, nothing can be accomplished.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

171. “The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

172. “The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

173. “Adore man, the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

175. “When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

176. “You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

177. “Willing is superfluous for Me. For grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely with them, talking and singing, even intellectuals are unable to grasp My Truth, My power, My glory or My real task as Avatar.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

178. “Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

179. “The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

180. “God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

181. “If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it, overcome it – You will have peace, joy and calm. In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure; it is the Path of Love.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

182. “If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

183. “The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!”

— Sathya Sai Baba

184. “If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind’s creation.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

185. “Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

186. “When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

187. “You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

188. “I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

189. “He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

190. “My construction will cover the entire Universe.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

191. “However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

192. “Never have hatred toward any religion.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

193. “People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

195. “The enumeration of human values as five – Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?”

— Sathya Sai Baba

196. “It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

197. “Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

198. “All religions teach one basic discipline – the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

199. “When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

200. “Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice...”

— Sathya Sai Baba