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 Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn. Sathya Sai Baba discipline disappointment rose Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love. Sathya Sai Baba practice love book Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it. Sathya Sai Baba bridges sea love Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions. Sathya Sai Baba teaching heart jesus It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts. Sathya Sai Baba oneness unity spiritual Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God. Sathya Sai Baba rust dust thinking Speak with Love and it becomes Truth. Sathya Sai Baba speak Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power. Sathya Sai Baba knowledge-and-power inspirational character Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life. Sathya Sai Baba roles purpose play Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all. Sathya Sai Baba A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace. Sathya Sai Baba clouds tree men LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD. Sathya Sai Baba desire men Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. Sathya Sai Baba vocabulary hate practice Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do. Sathya Sai Baba wise men reality As worldly thoughts diminish, thoughts of God increase. Normally, the mind is all the time desiring these worldly things. As the desires are cut out one by one, the peace becomes stronger. Sathya Sai Baba cutting mind desire Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. Sathya Sai Baba speech silence practice Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women. Sathya Sai Baba quality humility jewels Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self. Sathya Sai Baba real self men The Atma is everywhere. Sathya Sai Baba The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial. Sathya Sai Baba anxiety ignorance people
