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
beyond confined embrace extend family finally large love nation offer receive recipe service society
Offer service and receive love. This is the recipe for experiencing Divinity. Our love should not be confined to our kith and kin. It must extend beyond the family to society as a whole, then to the nation at large and finally embrace the whole world.
accept chance damage gang join letter mental peace reading receive receiving refuse
Do not damage your mental peace by receiving the letter and reading the contents. Refuse to receive it. You have a chance of correcting the wrong-doers too; accept it and join the gang of mischief-makers. So be warned!
debt grateful helping owe people receive repay society
We owe everything to society and should be grateful to society for all that we receive from it. We have to repay this debt by helping at least as many people as we can.
coaches deserve duty fulfilling raised receives treatment worse
When the coaches receives from you such treatment, how much worse treatment you deserve for not fulfilling your duty and for disappointing the expectations that you have raised by your being a man?
asked bring cannot defy desires earn hesitation inability love mind path recurring shock spiritual time
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.
avoiding emphasis food human placed
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
inflicted injury self
Injury inflicted on any being is sacrilege, self-injury.
dedicated designed education human life prepare values
Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.
compassion demonic drinking eating liquor lose love meat
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.
beautiful constantly egoism force glory hear name whenever
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.
cannot claim education heart
Education softens the heart. If the heart is hard, one cannot claim to be educated.
aware envy narrow path truth
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.
best discover eats hunger led scorn spiritual
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.
animal plant slide stone struggled
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.