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 More Quotes by Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes From Sathya Sai Baba Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. Sathya Sai Baba sacrifice study compassion 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 delusion body real The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty. Sathya Sai Baba bliss embodiment awareness YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example. Sathya Sai Baba isms revolutionary example You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them. Sathya Sai Baba meat-eating vegetarianism animal 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 sparks truth-is love-is 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 self mind giving We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy. Sathya Sai Baba envy hatred way Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person. Sathya Sai Baba sincerity violence trying So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world. Sathya Sai Baba loss men long Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet. Sathya Sai Baba giving-up hatred quiet Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss is virtue which earns the Grace of God. Sathya Sai Baba arms real grace Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the pages of the daily newspaper. This is to be attributed to sheer ignorance and perversity, or pitiable fate. Sathya Sai Baba fate ignorance men Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. Sathya Sai Baba immortality affliction dying Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal. Sathya Sai Baba anger animal men Heart is consciousness, I is Baba. Sathya Sai Baba baba consciousness heart 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 achievement reflection joy It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger. Sathya Sai Baba ego anger pride 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 three mind play If there is hatred in your vision, you will see hatred everywhere. Hence, change your vision to start with. Sathya Sai Baba vision hatred ifs