Sathya Baba Man Quotations

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.

Man is a prisoner of his senses as long as these two keep him under guard.

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

Man degrades himself by consuming intoxicating drinks and non-vegetarian food and by indulging in smoking. These noxious habits affect the brain also.

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.

Man falsely imagines I am doing this , I am planning this . It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

Man has to follow righteousness. He has to cultivate love. he has to live in peace. He has to observe nonviolence.

No one will go to the rescue of a drowning man if his cries are feeble. 

I have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level; it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.

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 life for man and love is everything in this world.

Mind prompts man to seek happiness and avoid misery.

Greed affects the mind; disappointment makes man depressed.

From the narrow vision of 'individual need', man must voyage out into the broad vision of the 'Universal'. When a drop of water falls into the Ocean, it loses its narrow individuality, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the Ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop', it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence.

If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, water it with love so that human values will grow.

But the fact is, no one knew the existence of this universal force, though it was there along with the Earth! The force was operating even when man was unaware of it.

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.

I am a man amongst men, when they see Me, I appear as a man. Amongst woman, I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone, I am God. This is the truth about Me.

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Peace can be got only through Faith; Faith is the spring of Joy. But now we see Sorrow, wherever we cast our eyes. Why does this happen ? Because, man has lost Faith. He has no Faith in himself. How then can he acquire Ananda ? How can a person, how has not got Faith enough to live happily for a few days, win the Grace of God ?

Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots; but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon, man has to take with him, his fears, his anxieties, his prejudices and his pet aversions.

Man strays away into misery and pain, because he loses the sense of value and runs after the temporary and the trivial. He ignores the voice of God which warns and guides him from within; and he pays the penalty for the transgression.

Man today is trying to master every kind of knowledge but is unable to discover his own true nature.

Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values.

Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

Man undergoes enormous trouble to guard his wealth but does not spend an iota of energy to guard his inner consciousness.

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.

What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.

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

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Each man carries his destiny in his own hands.

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.

Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda.

Every sense is an outlet for the energy of man in a direction that binds him to the objective world.

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

The service of man is the only means by which you can serve GOD.

Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.

Anger is the harvest of the bewitching mind; it enslaves man and fogs his understanding.

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

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

When Love can bring even God nearer to you, how can it fail where man is involved?

Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.

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.

People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life with fortitude. One should not recoil before reverses of fortunes. One should bravely face them and overcome them.

A discontented man is as bad as lost. A man without love is as good as dead.

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

The age period 16 - 30 is a crucial stage, when man achieves best and struggles hardest to achieve.

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

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.

A bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

Desire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

The world itself is a great teacher, a constant guide and inspiration. That is the reason why man is surrounded and sustained by the world.

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

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 greatest fear man can have is the fear of losing GOD's Love.

Forgiveness is a quality that every man should possess.

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

To achieve release, man kneels before a million Gods, in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached, he is freed indeed!

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.

Happiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well, clothed well, housed well, and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions, with no injury to health or security.