Sathya Baba Mind Quotations

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

It is the mind that builds up the body strong and shiny or wastes it to skin and bone.

When health prevails, vitality pervades both mind and body.By the process of loving service, you can become the promoters of much joy.Do not consider any act of service as demeaning!

Real Peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity.

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

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.

Make the heart big and the mind pure.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

Purification of the mind is attained through humility, integrity and a sense of justice.

Renunciation is the power of battling against evil forces and holding the mind in check.

You must make the mind the servant of God, not the slave of the senses.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

Once we surrender our mind to GOD completely, HE will take care of us in every way.

The experience of this one life must be enough to show you that there is no joy unmixed with grief, that both grief and joy are short-lived and they both depend on the mind and its control. You do not require the experience of a series of lives to grasp this patent fact.

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.

A sound mind ensures a sound body;a sound body ensures a sound mind.

Examine your mind, your thoughts; do not seek the fault ridden person.

Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

The mind fixed in the awareness of the ONE is line a rock; unaffected by doubt, stable, secure.

You get attachment when your mind is turned towards the world. When it is turned towards God, you attain liberation. It is the same lock and the same key that are responsible for bondage and liberation.

When you insert the key into the lock and turn it to the right, the lock opens. When you turn it to the left, it gets locked. The heart is the lock; the mind is the key.

Bend the body, mend the senses and end the mind - this is the way to Immortality.

Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

The fault is in the mirror that reflects, the mind that perceives, the brain that infers. What the mirror presents as true has no authenticity. The mirror is coated with dust and its face is not plain at all. God has no maya; He has no intention or need to delude, nor does He will that it should happen.

THE greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

Through the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences.

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.

We should realize that man has not only a mind which conceives thoughts, but also a heart which can put them into practice.

Instead of focusing on the external characteristics of others, you focus on their inner feelings, particularly as it is reflected in their behavior and expressions. You gauge the thoughts in another's mind and the feelings in their hearts by carefully watching what they say and do. When you have this kind of vision, you become concerned primarily with the deeper feelings and motivations of the other person

If formless meditation is difficult, then think of my form just as you see it here. With such meditation, the difference between subject and object is lost and the mind dissolves in unity.

Mind prompts man to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Mind is the battery cell, Intelligence is the switch  

Mind is like a clear mirror but it is made impure by our desires.

Mind is but a bundle of thoughts, a complex of wants and wishes.

Mind is a wonder,It has no distinct form or shape.

Mind has no physical form and so it does not perish with the body; only the body perishes.

Mind can have peace only when it merges in the Absolute Consciousness, Primal Cause and the Unchanging Existence.