The first step in realization is to always think of God. Then after some years you will realize that you are one with God. Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes by Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes From Sathya Sai Baba It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow. Sathya Sai Baba swanscrowhonor Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. Sathya Sai Baba sacrificestudycompassion 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 delusionbodyreal 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 blissembodimentawareness YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example. Sathya Sai Baba ismsrevolutionaryexample 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-eatingvegetarianismanimal 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 sparkstruth-islove-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 selfmindgiving We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy. Sathya Sai Baba envyhatredway 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 sincerityviolencetrying 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 lossmenlong Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet. Sathya Sai Baba giving-uphatredquiet 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 armsrealgrace 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 fateignorancemen Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. Sathya Sai Baba immortalityafflictiondying Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal. Sathya Sai Baba angeranimalmen Heart is consciousness, I is Baba. Sathya Sai Baba babaconsciousnessheart 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 achievementreflectionjoy It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger. Sathya Sai Baba egoangerpride 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 threemindplay
