Sathya Baba Cannot Quotations

One without health cannot achieve any small thing.

Philosophy that cannot be understood, scriptures that are not practiced - it is a waste of time to talk of them.

Since at this place, those who have devotion have gathered and people of all nations have come, I cannot but tell you one fact.

If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty.

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.

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.

Literature is a term that cannot be applied to writings or poems that reel off tales that are false. It should not emerge from the egotistic fancies of the individual.

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

It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no fear; it will not bend before others; it degrades man from the golden glory, which is his due, to the level of lowly dust.

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

Truth is one; there cannot be two. For, two can only be One, occurring twice.

Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.

You cannot be fresh and feeling fine, wearing a washed vest under an unwashed shirt; or, an unwashed vest over a washed shirt. Both have to be clean, to provide a sense of tingling joy. So too outer and inner cleanliness is but the reflection of the inner achievement.

You cannot see ME, but I am the light you see by.  You cannot hear ME, but I am the sound you hear by.  You cannot know ME, but I am the truth by which you live.

When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.

Anger cannot be destroyed by anger and cruelty by cruelty.

Women are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief, born out of folk-experience, that three women cannot live in unison!

WITHOUT the flowers, the plant yields no fruit. Without the emerging fruit, ripeness cannot happen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BECAUSE you have taken residence in this body, you cannot call the body I . When you sit here in this Hall, you do not call the Hall I . You know, you are separate and that you are here only temporarily.

Any happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So, you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

Education softens the heart. If the heart is hard, one cannot claim to be educated.