Sathya Baba Man Quotations [Page 2]

Love all men without distinction; Know that mankind is a single community.

Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity.

Love is the basis of all forms of worship of which Abraham was the human prototype.

What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man?  It is Love, Love for all humanity.

We can be successful leaders only if we are disciplined followers, who do not issue commands to others but rather set an example of service in our actions.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

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

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.

In the vast cosmos, man is like a speck. Essentially, there is no conflict between man and creation. J

Life has to be lived through, for the sake of the chance to unfold the virtues.Otherwise, man is a burden upon the earth, a consumer of food.

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Greed affects the mind; disappointment makes man depressed.

Today I have just made a beginning with the exposition of Vedanta. Every Mantra in the Vedanta is pregnant with meaning. I shall take up every day one Mantra and explain its meaning in simple and easily intelligible terms.

To exercise freedom in its true sense, man has to respect the five basic values.It is in that freedom he will find true bliss.

Each man carries his destiny in his own hands.

Each country is but a room in the mansion of GOD.

In the human condition, occasionally Maya enters and subjects people to various tests. Do not submit to Maya in any way.

Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.

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

What greater gain can there be for man than becoming aware of his Self, himself knowing himself.

What God gives is never exhausted,What man gives never lasts.

Forgiveness is a quality that every man should possess.

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

How is individual transformation to be achieved? There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking, drinking liquor, meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness.

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

Occupations and resultant attitudes have been assigned to the various stages of human life.

A characterless man is like a pot with many holes, useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace.

Thinking, discriminating and practice - all three constitute the basic human characteristics.

Mere formal worship or mechanical routine performance of rituals cannot induce God to recite in the heart.

Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.