sai baba quotes

hi xena!
howz u?thank u for ur message..im glad to know u like his teachings but feel rather sad that u dont follow him anymore.anywayz,baba is divine love himself,and he will surely be with u,guiding u all the way.take care,love,neeti.

A to Z of life
A

Always depend on God

B

Bear insult, near injury

C

Control the tongue

D

Do not cheat anybody

E

Evil company is dangerous

F

Fear nothing

G

Give, give, give. God will Love, Love, Love

H

Helping others is virtue

I

Injury is vice

J

Japa is your coat of arms

K

Knowledge is the fruit

L

Live for others

M

Mind deceives, beware

N

Now is the best time to utilize

O

Overcome grief by liberality

P

Pure mind is your friend

Q

Quietness will lead you to progress

R

Recite the name of God

S

Speak sweetly, speak softly

T

To love is to Serve

U

Understand yourself

V

Virtue is the staff of life

W

Within you is bliss

X

(E)xert yourself for Good

Y

Your treasure is God

Z

Zero has no value, if not attached to a unit. So life has no value if not attached to God.
(Divine Guidelines to all the Devotees, Workers and Office Bearers of Sri Sathya Sai Service centers)

BABA on service:

"Engage yourselves in service activity. Consider social service as service to God. This is the best way to earn God's Love. Love all and serve all. Your entire life will be sanctified thereby."

Eternal Joy Through Service

…If you lift the hand to serve, to help, to console, to encourage another man you are lifting it for God, because in every man is God.
Be of service to others, for that is giving yourself to Me. For whatever you give, I will repay you thrice, Nay I shall repay you ten-fold. Try Me and you will see. I say to those who know the joy of giving, look back! Yes, look back and see how each time you felt that nothing but a miracle could save you, keep you alive, fill your larder, save your son, stop a disaster - has not that miracle happened? Divine guidance is always at the side of the giver. Yes, I will give to those who give of themselves, untold Joy and Bliss; and what is more, I will lead them by the hand along those petal strewn paths of Eternal Joy.
Every deed performed, do it in My Name. Every person who passes near your path give them the sweetness of your smile. Give freely of the nectar of your cup of happiness, of kindness, of Blissfulness. Give the warmth of your love. Extend your hand as I extend Mine to you.
- Sathya Sai Baba

Quotations from the discourses of Sathya Sai Baba
Service expresses the divinity hidden in man. It broadens one's heart, it destroys narrow-mindedness, and it gives delight. The evil qualities and tendencies in us can be driven away through service.

To remove the evil of egoism, service is the most efficient instrument.

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.

The joy one gets while promoting another's joy is incomparable.

Service is the first step along the spiritual path.

If you lift the hand to serve, to help, to console, to encourage another man, you are lifting it for God, for God is in every man.

How can anyone contemplate on God - who loves the poor and the grief-stricken - and yet be cold-hearted when the poor and the grief-stricken are around them?

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

You have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another, for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position that gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God, whether you recognize it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift, namely the poor, the illiterate, the weak, the diseased, the grieving, the broken-hearted, who seek your help.

Man has become so selfish that he does not care for others, or anything other than his own welfare . . . One who constantly thinks of his own body, his own family, his own wealth and his own comfort is truly a selfish man. The only way to cleanse such a hard-hearted man is through service to humanity.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace. Deserve the grace of God by helping the weak and the poor, the diseased and the downtrodden.

Constant work in loving service to others covers the seeds of past sinful and harmful actions, so that they die away and do not grow into a new round of misery.

Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.

A wave of service, if it sweeps over the land catching everyone in its enthusiasm, will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the world.

Do not believe that you can by means of service reform or reshape the world. You may or may not; that does not matter. The real value of service, its most visible result, is that it reforms you, reshapes you. Do service as a spiritual discipline; then you will be humble and happy.

Through service rendered without any desire to placate one's ego, with only the well-being of others in view, it is possible to cleanse the consciousness and have the atma (true inner self that is divine) revealed.
You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others.

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities, selfless service cannot be performed.
Of the twenty-four hours a day
Use six for earning and spending,
six for contemplation of God,
six of sleep and six for service to others.
Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.
Service is divine - It makes life worthwhile.
Service is greater than meditation.
Sacrifice is sweeter than engagement...
Be good, be serviceable;
Be useful, be kind and
Be God-fearing.
Service is worship. Each act of service is a flower placed at the feet of God.
Service to humanity is service to divinity.
Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.
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.

SAI BABA ON GOD:

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

If you become aware of God's presence within you and also the presence of the same God in all else,
There is nothing to equal the peace and joy that you get.

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

God has no beginning and no end.

God will certainly be pleased if you give water for the thirsty, bread for the hungry and clothes to the naked.

God will never disown you,
for He is your very core,
Your basic Reality.

God thinks, plans and resolves
in all heads,
He sees through all the eyes,
He eats through all mouths,
Hears through every ear.

God is
The soul of Life;
God is
The Granter, the Force,
The Sustainer.

See God in everyone you meet;
See God in everything you handle;
Live together; Revere each other;
Let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke
The clear stream of love.

Transmuting "man" into "God" and experiencing that Bliss is the one and only achievement for which life is to be devoted.

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.

You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.