Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba (born circa 1926-1929, under the name Sathya Narayana Raju)

Indian guru

Verified

• "LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD."
  • Interview with R.K. Karanjia for Blitz magazine (1976)

• "Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember -- nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand."
  • Sanathana Sarathi , August 1984

• "I have a "Task": To foster all mankind and ensure for all of them lives full of ananda (bliss). I have a "Vow": To lead all who stray away from the straight path again into goodness and save them. I am attached to a "work" that I love: To remove the sufferings of the poor and grant them what they lack. I have a "reason to be proud", for I rescue all who worship and adore me, aright. I have my definition of the "devotion" I expect: Those devoted to me have to treat joy and grief, gain and loss, with equal fortitude. This means that I will never give up those who attach themselves to me."
  • from a letter that he wrote to his older brother Seshama Raju in 1947

Attributed

• "Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience."

• "Hands that help are holier than lips that pray."

• "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."

• "There is only one nation, the nation of humanity; There is only one religion, the religion of love; There is one language, language of the heart; There is only one God and He is Omnipresent."

• "Love all, serve all."

• "Help ever, hurt never."

• "The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do."

• "Why fear when I am here?"

• "My life is My message."

• "Take one step towards Me; I shall take a hundred towards you."

• "No one can understand my mystery."

• "I know the agitations of your hearts, the aspirations, the waves and whirlpools; but, you do not know My heart. I react to the pain you undergo, the joy that you feel. For, I am in every heart. That is the temple where I dwell."

• "I do not need any publicity. What are you daring to publicize? What do you know about Me, let Me ask you! You speak one thing about Me today, and another tomorrow! Your faith has not been rendered unshakable. You praise Me when things go well; you blame Me when things go wrong. You flit from one refuge to another."

• "Dharma protects those who protect Dharma"