Sri Satya Sai Baba

108 Quotes of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

1. The greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.
2. Too much food results in dullness of mind.
3. A language is as sweet as the tongues of the speakers.
4. Every experience that is drawn through any of the senses has an effect on one's health.
5. Love all beings; that is enough.
6. Discipline is the mark of intelligent living
7. When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.
8. A man's well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. 
9. God is all Names and all forms.
10. Follow the Master, face the devil, fight to the end, finish the game.
11. Real happiness lies within you.
12. All things in creation are subject to the law of change, and man, too, is subject to this law.
13. Renunciation is the power of battling against evil forces and holding the mind in check.
14. The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.
15. God is not to be spoken of as coming down or going up, since HE is everywhere.
16. Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.
17. What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man?  It is Love, Love for all humanity.
18. Each man carries his destiny in his own hands.
19. Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.
20. Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
21. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.
22. Service springs out of LOVE and it scatters LOVE in profusion.
23. Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.
24. Once we surrender our mind to GOD completely, HE will take care of us in every way.
25. Have constructive thoughts, consoling words, compassionate acts.
26. Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.
27. The end of knowledge is LOVE.  The end of education is character.
28. LOVE is the scarcest article today.
29. Mine, not thine; this sense of greed is the root of all evil.  This distinction is applied even to GOD! -- my GOD, not yours! Your GOD, not mine!
30. All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.
31. The mind fixed in the awareness of the ONE is line a rock; unaffected by doubt, stable, secure.
32. LOVE lives by giving and forgiving.  Self lives by getting and forgetting.
33. GOD is the doer; you are but the instrument.
34. The heart of man, which is now allowed to lie fallow, has to be ploughed by spiritual exercises like repetition of GOD's name.
35. GOD is neither distant, nor distinct from you.
36. What is meant by the phrase "to know GOD"? It means "to love GOD".
37. When there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.  When there is order in the nation, there will be PEACE in the world.
38. The beauty of life depends upon our good habits.
39. Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.
40. You cannot see ME, but I am the light you see by.  You cannot hear ME, but I am the sound you hear by.  You cannot know ME, but I am the truth by which you live.
41. Be ever watchful to see that you strive to take in more and more of GOD into you.
42. If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.
43. The same current activates all.
44. GOD gave you the time, space, cause, material, idea, skill, chance and fortune.  Why should you feel as if you are the doer?
45. Make the home a seal of harmony.
46. Have no desires to place before GOD, whatever HE does with you, however HE treats you, is the gift that HE likes best to give you!
47. Unity is divinity; purity is enlightenment.
48. Always respect another's opinion and another's point of view.
49. Food should not be too salty, too hot, too bitter, too sweet, too sour.
50. Reason can prevail only when arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound.
51. Take failure and victory cooly.
52. There should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality, language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.
53. Your thoughts, words, and deeds will shape others and theirs will shape you.
54. GOD is ONE without a second.
55. The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.
56. By eating flesh one develops violent tendencies and animal diseases.
57. The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.
58. As close as you are to GOD, so close is GOD to you.
59. Immortality is the fruit of sacrifice.
60. The grace of GOD is like insurance.  It will help you in your time of need without any limit.
61. When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.
62. LOVE seeks no reward; LOVE is its own reward.
63. The joy that we cause in the heart of GOD is the only worthwhile achievement.
64. Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits.  Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.
65. Truth has no fear; Untruth shivers at every shadow.
66. Be simple and sincere.
67. The mind sees separateness, LOVE sees unity.
68. God is the life-breath of every soul.
69. The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!
70. Being a good example is the best form of service.
71. Friendship is the expression of unshakable LOVE, LOVE that is noble, pure, free from desire or egoism.
72. Money comes and goes; morality comes and grows.
73. GOD first; the world next; myself last.
74. Try to conduct yourself in such a way as not to injure others.
75. Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
76. Patience is all the strength that man needs.
77. With effort and prayer destiny can be attained.  Start the effort.
78. You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.
79. What is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.
80. Spiritual progress is right living, good conduct, moral behavior.
81. A nation that has no bridle on its sensuality, can never thrive our survive.
82. I am you; you are ME.  You are the waves; I am the ocean.  Know this and be free, be divine.
83. Teachers must be examples of LOVE and TRUTH.
84. Each country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.
85. We should realize that man has not only a mind which conceives thoughts, but also a heart which can put them into practice.
86. LOVE must express itself as SERVICE.
87. The wise are those who know the Self.
88. Whatever the trouble, however great the sorrow, persist and win by recollecting the LORD.
89. Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.
90. Devotion is not a uniform to be worn on certain days and then to be put aside.
91. When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has traveled only from himself to himself.
92. So long as you say "I am". there is bound to be fear, but once you say and feel "I am GOD", you get unconquerable strength.
93. Duty without LOVE is deplorable, duty with LOVE is desirable, LOVE without duty is divine.
94. When you kill an animal, you give him suffering, pain, harm.  GOD is in every creature, so how can you give such pain?
95. When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle.
96. When the people become good, the world will become good.
97. Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
98. God is in you, around you, behind you, above you, beside you.
99. Of all the righteous acts, help rendered to those needing it, is the most righteous.
100. Surrendering the fruit of action to the Lord is real sacrifice.
101. My birthday is the date when divinity blossoms in your heart.
102. God is neither distant nor distinct from you.
103. What is offered to God is totally free from all defects and imperfections.
104. The joy that we cause in the heart of God is the only worthwhile achievement.
105. The acid test by which an activity can be confirmed as holy or sacred is to examine whether it promotes attachment or avoids bondage.
106. Education should build character.
107. Its is Truth and Truth alone, that is one's real friend, relative.
108. Faith is like our life breath. It is impossible to live even for a minute in this world without faith.

Spiritual Masters- Avatars- Guru

What is An Avatar?

The Supreme power assumes form from time to time to bring erring humanity back to the correct path. Leaving His all pervading spirit unaffected, He incarnates choosing a form, place and time. The form and nature He takes will depend on the cause and circumstances leading to the Avatara. Avataras differ in the vehicles or medium through which the Supreme manifests itself, according to the requirement. This is understandable as whenever we find the emergence of a great personality of Superhuman strength advocating or championing the cause of the eternal principles and values of life and Dharma and achieving great things, we are apt to call it an ‘Avatar’. The ultimate purpose of an incarnation is always the re-establishment of right values, of Dharma in the world. 


Basing on the timeline in history, we can find such avatars or gurus or saints or masters guiding the humanity by showing them the path of  dharma. It can be any religion or any region or any sect, but the end result is to establish the human values, peace, righteousness, love, harmony among each other.


Guru Parampara
Right beginning from Shiva (Dakshinamurthy), Dattatreya (the trinity of gods, Shiva,Brahma,Vishnu), he has taken many forms in many places, many religions and guided the humanity from ignorance, shown the path of dharma. Respectful namaskar to such guru who is one but appears as many.
This series is just a respectful act towards such guru, who has helped, who is helping and who will help the mankind always. It is in a way of guru smarana (meaning -remembering and chanting the name of Guru). The best way is to remember,recollect,narrate,share his (hi)story consisting of his birth,his life, his deeds, his way of living. He has always come whenever there was need of him by the mankind. He is the Guru, the teacher who can show the path and who can guide the mankind in a proper way. His forms and his names may be different, but he is the ONE. Respectful pranams to all such forms who are guiding the mankind. Let people may call them as saints, gurus, sanyasis, teachers, masters, priests, preachers whatever the word they use to associate with them, whatever gender they maybe either male or female, whatever age they may be either young or old,whatever religion they maybe, whatever country or place they maybe of, salutions to all those masters in whom there is this guru principle.

Sri Adi Sanakaracharya (788 AD - 820 AD)

Sri Sripada Vallabha (1320 AD - 1350 AD)

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Sri Narasimha Saraswati (1378AD- 1458AD)

Sri Samartha Ramdas (1606 AD -1682 AD)

Swamy Samarath( Akkalkot 1854 AD - 1878 AD)

Sri Manikprabhu Maharaj (Maniknagar- 1817-1865AD)

Shri Sainath (Shirdi - 1835 AD-1918 AD)

Shri Chirala Swamy

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Shri Tajuddin BabaShri Ekkirala BharadwajaShri Ganapathi Sachidananda

Shri Meher Baba

Amrutananada Mayi

Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

Shri Chandrasekhara Saraswathi

Shri Sainaduni Sarath Babuji

Shri Ramakrishna ParamahamsaShri Satya Sai Baba

Shri Gajanan Maharaj

Shri Siddaruda Swami

Shri Upasani Maharaj

Bhagawan Venkaiah Swamy

Swami Vivekananda

Shri Dadaji Dhuniwaley

Shri Dadaji Dhuniwaley

Shri Dadaji Dhuniwaley (Shri Keshavanandji Maharaj) is one of the greatest saints of India. Also known as Shri Dadaji Dandeywaley, he roamed all over India and in particular the central part of India in the 19th and 20th centuries. His lakhs of devotees all over the world strongly believe him to be an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Many devotees, who had the honour of serving him would tell others of having seeing Shri Dadaji in all his might and glory as Lord Shiva! Even today, the descendants of these devotees passionately recall these sightings made by their grandparents.

In the 18th century, a ‘jamaat of sadhus’ (group of holy men) led by Shri Gauri Shankerji Maharaj used to do 'parikrama' (circumambulate) of the river Narmada. They would walk the entire length of the river, on both its banks without crossing it anywhere in between. Shri Gauri Shankerji Maharaj did ‘tapasya’ (austerity) and prayed to ‘Maa’ (Mother) Narmada that he be given ‘darshan’ of (appearance by) his 'pita ji' (father, Lord Shiva). When he finished 12 such ‘parikramas’ ‘Maa’ Narmada appeared to him and told him that the teenaged ‘sanyasi’ in his ‘jamaat’, Keshav (Dadaji Maharaj), is Lord Shiva himself! With his lifelong desire about to come true, Gauri Shanker ji went to see Dadaji Maharaj and he indeed saw him as Lord Shiva. When he could not believe his eyes, Lord Shiva asked Gauri Shanker ji to touch him and believe it for himself.

Dadaji Maharaj always carried with him a ‘danda’ (stick). Wherever he went, he would light his ‘dhuni’ (holy fire) and sit next to it. Everywhere, people would flock in their thousands to seek blessings from this saint, who would always be in ‘digambar roop’ (without clothes). Within no time a large congregation of people started to follow him everywhere he went.

Dadaji maharaj had a very peculiar way of doing ‘jan kalyan’ (people were relieved of their troubles and had their wishes fulfilled). He would abuse people and hit them with his stick. Although everyone wished for it, only the lucky ones would have the honour of being abused or hit by him. People from all walks of life would come to seek his blessings. He performed countless miracles - childless couples being blessed with a child, favourable verdicts for people fighting legal cases in the courts, sick child getting miraculously healed after being thrown in the ‘dhuni’ by him! etc.

Dadaji took ‘mahasamadhi’ (soul leaving the body) in December, 1930. He was succeeded by  Shri Chottey Dadaji Maharaj (Shri Harihar Bholey Bhagwan)

If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice.

If your plan is for 10 years,  plant trees.

If your plan is for 100 years, educate children.

                                                                   - Confucius.