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All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love.

 

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The actor who slaps you on stage waits behind the curtain to congratulate you on your performance.

 

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Proximity leads to attraction. Attraction leads to thought. Thought leads to action.

 

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Why does the dead ball moon shining with stolen light have more power on earth than the self-luminescent stars (many times larger and more brilliant)?  Proximity.

 

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Why pluck a flower and hasten her death?

 

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You are actors on the stage before the footlights. The Director, who knows the
Play, who assigns the roles, who gives the cues, who calls you in and puts you
on is behind the curtain.

 

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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.

 

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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky,
unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

 

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Diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet.

 

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God is in every creature. How can you cause such pain?
(Baba said to a nonvegetarian).

 

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Not in the morning (mourning) pond does the lion
wash his blood.  (given in meditation)

 

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It is easy to conquer anger through love, attachment through reasoning,
falsehood through truth, bad thoughts through good and greed through charity.

 

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Birds and beasts need no Divine Incarnation to guide them, for they have no
inclination to stray away from their dharma. Man alone forgets or ignores the
goal of life.

 

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Get the flower, and you have its beauty and fragrance.
In color see harmony, in light see joy.
In outward form and in the depths of things, behold your Self.
You are the Truth.

 

Each is all.
(Baba's response when Linden H asked how he could love Baba more.).

 

If some people say there is no God it only means they are at too great a
distance to be aware of Him.

 

The acid test by which an activity can be confirmed as holy or sacred is to
examine whether it promotes attachment or avoids bondage.

 

God is the doer; you are but the instrument.

 

Physical charm and force can never overpower the charm or force
of the Spirit.

 

One needs no map to see the stars.

 

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own
faith, so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better
Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.

 

Never harm a snake or a scorpion. He will only harm you if ordered to do so by
God. If so ordered there is nothing you can do about it.  (in Sai Satcharitra)

 

By satsang, the company of God-minded persons, by systematic attention to self
control and self improvement, man can overcome the delusion that makes him
identify himself with the body and its need and cravings.

 

Health care is not a business.

 

Corn corn (seed) begets corn.

 

Charity is the ornament for the hand.
Truth is the ornament for the throat.
Scripture is the ornament for the ears.
Of what use is any other ornament?

 

During the 10 months of her confinement in Lanka, Sita never raised her head and
looked at her captor Ravana's face even for a second. Such was her purity and
chastity.

 

The Lord takes the Form that the seekers crave for; He is above all Name and
Form. Children go to the sweet shop and select sweets representing the animals
they love; some ask for the dog,
some the peacock, some the horse, some choose the elephant. But, what they
desire is the sweetness therein. To say that one Form alone can be sweet is to
deny the compassion of God.
He is eager to satisfy the yearning of the genuine seeker.

 

The house of the material body is on fire from the moment of birth.

 

The foot of a gold idol is as valuable as the head.

 

The most heinous sin is to hurt the heart of another.

 

Maya is a Narthaki, a juggler, an enchantress who entices the intelligence and
traps the senses. This Na-rtha-ki can be subdued by ki-rtha-na, Kirthana or the
concentrated contemplation of the glory of God.

 

Have faith in yourself, your own capacity to adhere to a strict
timetable of sadhana (spiritual discipllne).

 

Satisfying God means to satisfy your own conscience.

 

God is not a separate entity. Humankind is the image of God. Daivam maanusha
rupena, declare the scriptures. It means that God appears in human form. God has
no separate form. It is to show to humanity how human life can be divinized that
Avatars come from time to time.

 

I have often declared that God does not come down as avatar to relieve
individuals of their troubles and sorrows and to confer joy and happiness on
them. Difficulties, troubles and worries come in the natural course as a
consequence of past actions. The Gita says: Karmaanubandhini manushya loke
(Human beings are bound by Karma in the world). As human birth is the result of
Karma, there can be no escape form the consequences of Karma. As is your action,
so is the reaction to it.
March, 1968.

 

The lotus in the heart of man pines for the Sun, the splendour
of the Lord. But to attain it is hard. Withdrawal of all affection
towards the world alone can win it.

 

Yama can be countermanded by Samyama; death can be conquered by control of the
senses.

 

Her son was totally averse to non-vegetarian food. He would not even visit the
houses where non-vegetarian food was cooked. Seeing his noble qualities,
Easwaramma
realized that the child was not an ordinary one, but one of divine
nature. Her eldest daughter Venkamma also recognized the divine nature of the
child. Together, they brought up the child with love and care.

 

If an unripe avocado is thrown against a wall, it will shatter.If a ripe avocado is thrown, the fruit will separate from the seed. Souls ready for liberation are freed by crisis. (paraphrased).

 

People talk grandly of nonduality, of the oneness of all but they are the very persons who exaggerate every difference and emphasize every distinction. Nov 84 Tustin Ca newsletter of Sathya Sai Baba Society.

 

It is hard to obtain the company of the noble. It is easy to obtain the company
of the ignoble, Pebbles are available in plenty; but it is hard to obtain the
precious diamond.

 

My devotees in satsang should send love in meditation to vivisectors and
legislators. Lawmakers will make laws to eliminate vivisection
(literally, cutting up living animals.. has evolved to mean confinement of and harming of lab animals).

 

I alone know the agony of teaching you every step of the dance.

 

Do not cultivate too much attachment to things of the world, which appeal to
carnal desires and sensual thirsts. A moment comes when you have to depart
empty-handed, leaving all that you have laboriously collected and proudly called your own.

 

Death is throwing the ball back into the sky.
The veil of maya hides from him the Face of God which is shining from every
being and thing around him.

 

The mind is a bundle of desires.

 

The Lord uttered a Blessing that all who come to the Holy Land of Ayodhya and
all who bathe in the sacred Sarayu can reach Him.

 

A green gourd sinks in the water, but a dry one floats. Become
dry. Rid yourselves of attachments, desires, avoid anxieties, worries. Then you
can float unaffected in the waters of change and chance.

 

God has not created creatures such as devils and evil spirits.
These are the creations of human beings.

 

As much as possible sleep under the midnight sky. (said to a woman trying to leave a relationship)

 

Sow an action, reap a tendency; Sow a tendency, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap
a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny. You are the maker of your destiny.
You can do or undo it.

 

The Vedas have infinite depth of meaning. All may not be able to comprehend the
inner meaning of the Vedic teachings. The earth's gravitational force existed
even before it was discovered by Newton after rigorous experimentation.
Similarly, the eternal truths hidden in the Vedas were perceived by the Rishis
(seers) after intense penance and Sadhana (spiritual austerities). Unless one
practises their teachings, one can never get happiness or peace. In order to
realize the Divine, you have to practise the precepts prescribed in the Vedas.
No doubt, even listening to the recitation of the Vedas is itself capable of
purifying your mind and elevating you to a higher level. For, it is Shabdha
Brahman (God embodied as sound). If you ruminate over it and practise it in your
life, you can imagine the magnitude of the bliss you will attain.

 

The force that compelled Lakshmana to disobey was the prompting of his Destiny.(in Ramayana:.. 72 of Baba's books are onine and free at http://sathyasai.org in the Discourses link.

 

The sun and the moon are shining. What scientist can make
them shine. None. They shine by the power of Divinity.

 

As the saying goes,' Like the mole in the eye, the stone in the shoe, the thorn in the foot, the faction in the home; is this doubt in the brain'. When such doubts asSail Arjuna, who
is the representative Man, it means they are Humanity's own doubts. They can be solved only by Madhava who is beyond and above Humanity.-  Sai Baba GV-P61.

 

1 movement of the hour hand equals 3600 movements of the second Similarly, the
Saint acts with greater economy and power than others. (paraphrased).

 

The mind sees separateness. Love sees unity.

 

Politics without principles, education without character,
science without humanity, and commerce without morality
are not only useless but positively dangerous.

 

Focus the mirror of your intellect on the sun, not the void (paraphrased)

 

Parvathi, the daughter of the monarch of the Himalayas, was the very acme of
physical beauty. In spite of this, she had to acquire the quality of Sathwa
(goodness) by destroying the pride in personal beauty and her native egotism
through intense asceticism.

 

The dark smoke of Maya settles hard on the eye of humankind and renders him
incapable of recognizing Divinity.

 

Reform yourself first before thinking of reforming others.

 

If you don't get a seat in the bus (because you have given it to an old person), you can afford to walk a mile or two, thereby deriving the double benefit of saving the bus fare and giving much
needed exercise to your body.

 

Brahma was in existence well before mind and intelligence came into existence.

 

Brahma cannot be understood be one's mind or intelligence.

 

Rama who was the guardian of the world would gladly wipe the tears from all
eyes.

 

Love God with no other thought. Then you become His and He becomes yours. There
is no nearer kindship than this. Fifty others may be peeping into the kitchen, hungry and expectant, but if you are the child of the master, you will be served first.

 

As a mirror focused on the dark void has no power, but shines with light when focused on the sun, so place your consciousness on the good, not transitory evil. (paraphrased).

 

Eating fish causes unclean thoughts.

 

There is no use trying to have one foot in one boat and another in another. Give
up Lokabhranthi and Dehabhranthi, that is, attachment
towards the body and the external world and year for God.

 

Man has to attain liberation while in chains.

 

Hospitals are meant to serve the poor and needy.

 

Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play
it! Life is Love, enjoy it!

 

I give you what you want so that you will want what I have to give.

 

A single glance of the Avatar bestows all boons.

 

Like the river which leaps over precipices, creeps through bush and briar, flows
round hills, seeps through sand but keeps the
goal the sea always in view, man too must march untiringly towards God.

 

Iswara Sarva Bhutanam. God is the Indweller of all beings.

 

If you would be delivered of a block of negative karma,
chant the Ganapati Stotra in the muladhar.

 

Aspire to be good rather than great.
(in the context that many who have an ambition for greatness sacrifice on the
way what should not be sacrificed).

 

There is no disease equal to greed.
There is no enemy greater than anger.
There is no sorrow that is greater than poverty.
There is no happiness equal to wisdom.

 

Love expands; it does not limit itself to boundaries.

 

Happiness will seep into your life
as soundlessly as dew into a coconut.

 

Be like the tongue which lives unharmed in the midst
of 32 soldier teeth.

 

Money can purchase drugs but mental peace and content alone can guarantee
health.

 

You have betrayed your heart (whenever you have muzzled
its calls for compassion.).

 

I am Rama you are Sita!
I am coming to take you Home
We have played for many aeons
but now.. your time is up
(Baba to JC).

 

Learn to give, not to take. Learn to serve, not to rule.

 

There is no charity greater than feeding the hungry.
There are no greater gods than parents.
There is no greater dharma than compassion.
There is no greater gain than the company of the good.
There is no enemy greater than anger.
There is no wealth greater than good reputation,.
Bad reputation is death itself.
There is no ornament more beautiful than the chanting of God's Name.

 

Like the donkey that carries sandalwood, without knowing anything
more than its weight, man too carries the burden of wordly
worries, without being aware of the fragrance which he can really
get from the very burden on his back.

 

Pain comes from identification with the body.

 

Yhe world is a kaleidoscopic picture created by ones own imagination.

 

An ant was caught on a dry leaf that was being carried down a flooded river and
he called out from its tiny heart to God for succour who prompted a kite that
was flying over the river to dive and rise up, with the leaf on its beak; for He
made the bird mistake him for a fish or frog! The bird was sorely disappointed,
but, the ant was
delighted to land on hard ground! God came as a kite and rescued me, he felt. I
must be grateful to
the bird, to all birds, he resolved. One day, while on his morning round, he saw
a hunter aim an
arrow at a bird; he bit the heel of the hunter, just when he was releasing the
mortal shaft; the aim
failed; the bird flew off, and was saved. The ant had paid his debt.

 

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around in
his pocket. The more he has, the more they weigh him down.

 

Man's life is a bridge between this world and the Divine.

 

Be like the stream which flows in ananda (joy) over rocks.

 

See in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of
others; see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others, to console
others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.

 

The blocks inside people manifest as obstacles in their paths. (paraphrased).

 

46 Maxims

 

1. Prema, Love, should be considered as the very breath of Life.
2. The Love that is manifest in all things equally, believe that the same Prema
is Paramatma.
3. The one Paramatma is in every one, in the form of Prema.
4. More than all other forms of Prema, man's first effort should be to fix his
Love on the Lord.
5. Such Love directed towards God is Bhakthi; that is the fundamental test, the
acquisition of Bhakthi.
6. Those who seek the Bliss of the Atma should not run after the joys of sense
objects.
7. Sathya, Truth, must be treated as life-giving as breathing itself.
8. Just as a body that has no breath is useless and begins to rot and stink
within a few minutes, similarly, life without Truth is useless and becomes the
stinking abode of strife and grief.
9. Believe that there is nothing greater than Truth, nothing more precious,
nothing sweeter and nothing more lasting.
10. Truth is the all-protecting God. There is no mightier Guardian than Truth.
11. The Lord who is Sathyaswarupa grants His Darsan to those of Truthful Speech
and Loving Heart.
12. Have undiminished kindness towards all beings and also the spirit of
self-sacrifice.
13. You must also possess control of the senses, an unruffled character and
non-attachment.
14. Be always on the alert against the four sins which the tongue is prone to
commit:
Speaking falsehood
Speaking ill of others
Back-biting and
Talking too much
It is best to attempt to control these tendencies.
15. Try to prevent the five sins that the body commits:
Killing
Adultery
Theft
Drinking intoxicants
Eating of flesh
It is a great help for the highest life if these also are kept as far away as
possible.
16. One must be always vigilant, without a moment's carelessness, against the
eight sins that the mind perpetrates:
Kamam or craving
Krodham or anger
Lobham or greed
Moham or attachment
Impatience
Hatred
Egoism
Pride
Man's primary duty is to keep all these things at a safe distance from himself.
17. Man's mind speeds fast, pursuing wrong actions. Without letting it hurry
like that remember the Name of the Lord at that time or attempt to do some good
deed or other. Those who do thus will certainly become fit for the Lord's Grace.
18. First give up the evil tendency to feel impatient at the prosperity of
others and the desire to harm them. Be happy that others are happy. Sympathise
with those who are in adversity and wish for their prosperity. That is the goal
of cultivating the love for God.
19. Patience is all the strength that man needs.
20. Those anxious to live in joy must always be doing good.
21. It is easy to conquer anger through love, attachment through reasoning,
falsehood through truth, bad through good and greed through charity.
22. No reply should be given to the words of the wicked. Be at a great distance
from them; that is for your good. Break off all relations with such people.
23. Seek the company of good men, even at the sacrifice of your honour and life.
But be praying to God to bless you with the discrimination needed to distinguish
between the good men and the bad. You must also endeavour, with the intellect
given to you.
24. Those who conquer states and earn fame in the world are hailed as heroes, no
doubt; but those who have conquered the senses are heroes who must be acclaimed
as the conquerors of the Universe.
25. Whatever acts a good or bad man may do, the fruits thereof follow him and
will never stop pursuing him.
26. Greed yields only sorrow; contentnment is best. There is no happiness
greater than contentment.
27. The mischief-mongering tendency should be plucked out by the roots and
thrown off. If allowed to exist, it will undermine life itself.
28. Bear with fortitude both loss and grief; try and search for plans to achieve
joy and gain.
29. Assume silence when you are invaded by anger or remember the Name of the
Lord. Instead, do not try to remind yourself of things which will inflame the
anger more. That will do incalculable harm.
30. From this moment, avoid all bad habits. Do not delay or postpone. They do
not contribute the least joy.
31. Try as far as possible within your means to satisfy the needs of the poor,
who are really Daridranarayana. Share with them whatever food you have and make
them happy at least that once.
32. Whatever you feel should not be done to you by others, avoid your doing such
to others.
33. For faults and sins committed in ignorance, repent sincerely; try not to
repeat the faults and sins again; pray to God to bless you with the strength and
the courage needed to stick to the right path.
34. Do not allow anything to come near you, which will destroy your eagerness
and enthusiasm for God. Want of eagerness will cause the decay of the strength
of man.
35. Yield not to cowardice; do not give up Ananda.
36. Do not get swelled up when people praise you; do not feel dejected when
people blame you.
37. If among your friends any one hates another and starts a quarrel, do not
attempt to inflame them more and make them hate each other more; try, on the
other hand, with love and sympathy to restore their former friendship.
38. Instead of searching for others' faults, search for your own faults
yourself; uproot them, throw them off. It is enough if you search and discover
one fault of yours; that is better than discovering tens of hundreds of faults
in others.
39. Even if you cannot or will not do any Punya or good deed, do not conceive or
carry out any Papa, or bad deed. This is far preferable.
40. Whatever people may say about the faults that you know are not in you, do
not feel for it; as for the faults that are in you, try to correct them
yourself, even before others point them out to you. Do not harbour anger or
vengeance against persons who point out your faults; do not retort, pointing out
the faults of those persons themselves, but show your gratitude to them. Trying
to discover their faults is a greater mistake on your part. It is good for you
to know your faults; it is no good your knowing others' faults.
41. Whenever you get a little leisure, do not spend it in talking about all and
sundry, but utilise it in meditating on God or in doing service to others.
42. The Lord is understood only by the Bhaktha; the Bhaktha is understood only
by the Lord. Others cannot understand them. So, do not discuss matters relating
to the Lord with those who have no Bhakthi. On account of such discussion, your
devotion will diminish.
43. If anyone speaks to you on any subject, having understood it wrongly, do not
think of other wrong notions which will support that stand but grasp only the
good and the sweet, in what he says. True meaning is to be appreciated as
desirable, not wrong meaning or many meanings, which give no meaning at all and
cause only the hampering of Ananda.
44. If you desire to cultivate one-pointedness, do not, when in a crowd or
bazaar, scatter your vision to the four corners and on everything, but see only
the road in front of you, just enough to avoid accidents to yourself.
One-pointedness will become firmer if one moves about without taking one's
attention off the road, avoiding dangers, and not casting eyes on others' forms.
45. Give up all doubts regarding the Guru and God. If your wordly desires do not
get fulfilled, do not blame it on your devotion; there is no relationship
between such desires and devotion to God. These worldly desires have to be given
up some day or other; Bhakthi feelings have to be acquired some day or other. Be
firmly convinced of this.
46. If your Dhyanam or Japam do not progress properly or if the desires you have
entertained do not come to fruition, do not get dispirited with God. It will
dispirit you even more and you will lose the peace, however small or big, that
you might have earned. During Dhyanam and Japam you should not be dispirited,
desperate or discouraged. When such feelings come, take it that it is the fault
of your Sadhana and endeavour to do them correctly.
Source: Sandeha Nivarini by Bhagavan Sri Sathya sai baba.

 

A spark may start another fire; a virus may multiply quickly and
bring about relapse; a little unpaid debt will soon assume huge proportions
through high rates of interest; a karma, however trite, done with intention to
benefit by the fruit thereof will involve
birth in order to eat the fruit.

 

Medical experts can be hired but life cannot be secured on lease.

 

My light surrounds your life.

 

You limit God by your assumptions.

 

Just as a child yearns for its mother's bosom, a lost calf for its mother in a
herd, and a widow cries for her lost husband in a corner, you too must aspire
for the proximity of sai and reap joy therefrom.

 

Intent on fulfilling your legitimate duties, you can pray to God to keep you
alive for a hundred years. You will not incur blame.

 

God, who is the embodiment of love, can be attained only through love, just as
the effulgent sun can be seen only by its own light.  Thought For The Day Jan 16, 2006 posted at baba's ashram in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India.

 

We attain God who is Love by loving.

 

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at
him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled,
blind.

 

(Marriage) Both should love and serve
one another as One. There is no distinction nor any
difference between them. Both are One and
one cannot live without the other.

 

When love matures, it turns into beauty. When the taste of Beauty ripens, it is
sweetness. In that experience of sweetness everything appears brilliant and
shining. The whole process may be likened to what happens when a flower
ultimately becomes a ripe, sweet fruit. Ripeness is all. The Spirit is all
sweetness.

 

When the sun is reflected in 10 pots, there are not 11 suns but 1.The sun does not
die when a reflection containing pot is spilled or evaporates or is overtaken by nightfall.

 

I have no followers for I face all directions.

 

I am yours. You are Mine. I do not await an invitation. (as recirded in Victor Kanu's book)

 

Yama (God's servant in charge of death) can be countermanded by Samyama; death can be conquered by control of the senses

 

"Bring me the depths of your mind, no matter how grotesque, how cruelly ravaged
by doubts or disappointments. I know how to treat them. I will not reject you. I am your Mother...

 

A man with anger.... is despised by everone.

 

Unrest, sorrow, anger, etc., are the reaction, reflection, and resound of the
state of our inner being.

 

Surely, you did not come into this world with any name

 

Love is another name of Brahman

 

Hospitals are for people without faith. Vibhuti is for
people with faith.

 

You are not one person, but three: the one you think you are, the one others
think you are, and the one you really are. What others think is all imagination.
The Self within you is the only truth.
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When maya and Truth come together, creation takes place. Without maya, there can
be no creation.
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Maya is like a shadow to a human being. But this shadow deludes us. At sunrise,
our shadow is long. As the sun gradually rises, the shadow falls under our feet
at midday. Thus, the shadow grows and shrinks. We should not therefore mistake
the shadow as our basis.
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The entire creation is a manifestation of God's love, be it a tiny ant or a mighty elephant.
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Not even a blade of grass will move without divine Will, People who do not realise this truth get carried away by their pride of intelligence and discrimination. But no one, however great they may be, knows what lies ahead for them in future. (Telugu poem)

 

A makeshift bed was arranged for the newly born child Jesus, with some old
clothes and dry leaves.

 

The drawing of Baba is by Tom Shroyer

A devotee had contracted a foot infection away from the ashram.. After several days it was not responding to antibiotics. Dr Vijaya Lakshmi at Baba's ashram hospital said it might have to be amputated. The following morning the devotee was given a dream in which Shirdi Sai Baba said 'today the chickens will rise'. That afternoon Baba gave her padnamaskar...and her infection healed quickly. Perhaps 'the chickens will rise' was a reference to a past life killing chickens.

 

 

 
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