Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice. Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes by Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes From Sathya Sai Baba Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed. Sathya Sai Baba humanness harmony deeds 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 shanghai mark heart Travel light, Arrive quickly. Sathya Sai Baba travel-light light 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 abuse family-and-friends people Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi. Sathya Sai Baba real love-is men The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings. Sathya Sai Baba compassion kings blessed I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future. Sathya Sai Baba happenings happened past Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world. Sathya Sai Baba vedas past world 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 overcoming men people The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes. Sathya Sai Baba attachment flower doe Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view. Sathya Sai Baba cheer spiritual mean Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God. Sathya Sai Baba evening morning thinking If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night. Sathya Sai Baba silence night fall Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred. Sathya Sai Baba devotion-to-god hatred devotion Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives. Sathya Sai Baba sacrifice compassion desire Leadership is Idealism in Action. Sathya Sai Baba idealism action However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value. Sathya Sai Baba humanness-is intellectual men Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid. Sathya Sai Baba aids example teaching You can think of individuals as different light bulbs. There will be a differences in wattage and in color. There will be differences in shape, but everywhere the current is the same. That current is who you are. You are not the individual bulb. You are the one current in all. Sathya Sai Baba color light thinking Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity. Sathya Sai Baba storm fire memories
