Sathya Baba Spiritual Quotations

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is, strengthen the inward vision.

Let your whole life be a spiritual song.

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Secure spiritual bliss first and then try to convey it to those who thirst. When the tank is dry, how can the taps give water?

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Meat eating is also very bad. If you partake animal food, you will develop animal qualities. As is the food, so is the head. So you should have regulation of food. Then the fourth one is gambling. Those in the spiritual field should immediately give up smoking, drinking, meat eating and gambling. All these four are bad qualities.

No other weapon has the power of forbearance.  It should not be used only as an individual instrument.  It has to be experienced collectively also.  That is the reason why the scripture has commended collective forbearance at the very outset of the spiritual quest.  What is its inner meaning? 

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.

Spiritual progress is right living, good conduct, moral behavior.

Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

Spiritual discipline grows only in a field fertilized by Love.

To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.

There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love

When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

Be like the lions in the spiritual field, rule over the forest of the senses and roam fearlessly with full faith in victory.

Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!

The year becomes new, the day becomes holy, when you sanctify it by spiritual discipline, not otherwise.

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.

Not only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits , those who expound to the people gathering fame, use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises, they benefit by the scholarship, but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.

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.

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.

Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.

In fact, service is the first step along the spiritual path, for service to man is service to God.

CLEANSE your emotions, passions, impulses, attitudes, and reactions. That is the essence of spiritual discipline as laid down in all Faiths.

The heart of man, which is now allowed to lie fallow, has to be ploughed by spiritual exercises like repetition of GOD's name.

All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.