Top 280 Sathya Sai Baba Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

207. “It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

208. “Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

209. “Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

210. “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.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

211. “People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

212. “God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

213. “The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

214. “Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

215. “Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable!”

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

217. “Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!”

— Sathya Sai Baba

218. “Don’t follow the mind. Don’t follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

219. “Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

220. “People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

221. “Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one’s country.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

222. “Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

223. “Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

224. “God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

225. “Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

226. “Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

227. “When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

228. “Human values can be listed as 50, 60, 70, 80 in all. But they can be better grouped under the following three heads; pure thoughts, pure words, pure deed; thoughts, words and deed cordinated with one another.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

229. “Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

230. “Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years – for all are one, in the eternal stream...”

— Sathya Sai Baba

231. “If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

232. “If there is hatred in your vision, you will see hatred everywhere. Hence, change your vision to start with.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

233. “Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

234. “When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

235. “What do we lose by another’s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

236. “It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

237. “Spiritual discipline is the cultivation of Love. Be full of Love. taste the exhilaration that Love can confer. Let everyone see your exuberant with light and joy.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

238. “Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

239. “Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

240. “All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

241. “Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

242. “How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don’t harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

243. “The eye sees the physical body, other individuals, even insects, worms and things. It sees everything that is within its range. The body too is a thing that the eye sees, along with the rest. So, how can we conclude that the body is the I?”

— Sathya Sai Baba

244. “I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

245. “You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

246. “PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and dress up to please the self-same I. The husband loves his wife for the sake of the I. And who is this I that is persistently inherent in everyone? It is God Himself.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

247. “We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

248. “What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

249. “You cannot be fresh and feeling fine, wearing a washed vest under an unwashed shirt; or, an unwashed vest over a washed shirt. Both have to be clean, to provide a sense of tingling joy. So too outer and inner cleanliness is but the reflection of the inner achievement.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

250. “If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.”

— Sathya Sai Baba