Sathya Sai Baba (born Sathya Narayana Raju; 23 November 1926 – 24 April 2011) was an Indian guru, cult leader, and philanthropist. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi.
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.
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?
It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord.
Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.
People say "I want peace. " If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
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.
There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
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.
Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
Think, "I am beyond the body. This body is just a water bubble. I am beyond the mind. This mind is just a mad monkey. I am the Atma. I and God are one. Before this body was formed I was there. After this body leaves I am there. Without this body I am still there. I am omnipresent. I am all. " To reach this truth you have to do some spiritual practice. You have to inquire, "What is God? Who is God? Who am I?" Jesus spent twelve years in the desert; then he realized. You must also do some Sadhana.
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
One without health cannot achieve any small thing.
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.
When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.
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.
Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.
Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.
YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.