Sathya Baba
Sathya Baba
Indian guru who was known for claiming that he was the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi and as a supposed miracle worker.
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth28 November 1926
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Since I know the past, the background, My reaction is different. If only you knew, you too will react differently. It is the consequences of the evil, deliberately done in the previous births, and so I have to allow the suffering to continue, modified often by some little compensation. I do not cause either joy or grief; you are the designer of both the chains.
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Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.
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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.
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I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
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In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
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Injury inflicted on any being is sacrilege, self-injury.
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Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.
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Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.
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Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.
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Education softens the heart. If the heart is hard, one cannot claim to be educated.
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Each one must become aware that he is part of the one Truth that encompasses everything in the Universe. It is reprehensible to stick, for one's whole life-time, to the narrow path of selfishness, envy and greed.
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Each one eats to assuage his own hunger; so too, each one must discover the best way to appease his own spiritual hunger. Do not be led away by the scorn of others, or by the recommendations of others.
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Each one of you has struggled upward from the stone to a plant, From the plant to an animal, From the animal to a man,Do not slide into an animal.
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Every one of you must be saved, sooner or later, by the grace of the All Merciful.