You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion. Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes by Sathya Sai Baba More Quotes From Sathya Sai Baba When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil. Sathya Sai Baba evilfeels Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call service to God. God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God. Sathya Sai Baba painjoymen If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God. Sathya Sai Baba love-and-compassionpeace-lovecompassion When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first. Sathya Sai Baba words-of-wisdomhonorwant The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service. Sathya Sai Baba humilitymotherchildren You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety. Sathya Sai Baba unifyingtruth-isbehinds The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness, I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me. Sathya Sai Baba onenessessencemean Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. Sathya Sai Baba volcanoesattachmentpride All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization. Sathya Sai Baba offeringselfopportunity All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel. Sathya Sai Baba revelationspracticespiritual Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God. Sathya Sai Baba landgivinglong The heart with compassion is the temple of God. Sathya Sai Baba templescompassionheart Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation. Sathya Sai Baba authenticitycreationreflection When there is Self-confidence then there will be love, there will be peace, there will be truth, there will be God. Sathya Sai Baba self Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you. Sathya Sai Baba prayerbirthdayworld True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice . Sathya Sai Baba fightingprideloss When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole. Sathya Sai Baba welfareindividualworld Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. Sathya Sai Baba speechsilencespiritual Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. Sathya Sai Baba prayerspiritualgiving Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Sathya Sai Baba burningfueldesire
