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 More Quotes by Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes From Sathya Sai Baba Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash. Sathya Sai Baba prayer doubt heart Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up. Sathya Sai Baba virtue given path One without health cannot achieve any small thing. Sathya Sai Baba small-things achieve 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 horse sacrifice hate Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness. Sathya Sai Baba oneness self names 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 healthy deeds desire Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty. Sathya Sai Baba cruelty destroyed 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 and-love roots together Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva. Sathya Sai Baba practice roots order Love is everything. Love is God. Live in love. Sathya Sai Baba god-is-love love-is The aim of all spiritual practice is love. Sathya Sai Baba wisdom spiritual wise 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 scripture effort air Adore God, abhor sin. Sathya Sai Baba adore sin You are God. You are not the ego. You are God! Sathya Sai Baba ego Self-confidence is confidence in the Atma; it is an unwavering love for the Divinity within you. That is very important. What will help you to develop that confidence? Be equalminded, be satisfied with what you have. Be happy. Sathya Sai Baba divinity self-confidence important You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence). Sathya Sai Baba tolerance hurt looks Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their behaviour and pardon their faults. This capacity is as invaluable as truth, righteousness, wisdom, non-violence, renunciation, delight and compassion. It is all that one need possess for spiritual advancement. Sathya Sai Baba appreciate compassion spiritual Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects. Sathya Sai Baba meat-eating evil thinking Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power. Sathya Sai Baba praying lying world Always have complete faith in the indwelling God who takes care of everything. True greatness can only come from faith. Sathya Sai Baba greatness take-care care