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“Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.”

Sathya Sai Baba

“LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Interview with R.K. Karanjia for Blitz magazine (1976)

“Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.”

Sathya Sai Baba

As quoted in Sathyam Sivam Sundaram (The Life Story of Sathya Sai Baba) by N. Kasturi, Ch. XXVI : Holy Joy http://www.ineval.org/sai/Teachings/SathyamSivamSundaram/s1026.html

“God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Christmas Day Discourse, Bombay 1970. page 136, US ed. of Kasturi's Sathyam Sivam Sundaram Vol 3.

“There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world”

Sathya Sai Baba

As quoted by his official biographer, N. Kasthuri, in 'Pathway to Peace', p. 64.

“My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba Discourse 19-6-1974. p. 227 Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 12.

Sathya Sai Baba Quotes about love

“Practise silence, for the voice of God can be heard in the region of your heart only when the tongue and the inner storm are stilled, and the waves (of the mind) are calmed. There will be no temptation for others to shout when you talk to them in whispers. Set the level of the tone yourself: as low as possible, as high as necessary to reach the outermost boundary of the circle you are addressing. Conserve sound, since it is the treasure of the element ether (Akasa), an emanation from God Himself. Reason can prevail only when the arguments are advanced without the whipping up of sound. Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. Soft speech is the expression of genuine love. Hate screeches; fear squeals; conceit trumpets; but love sings lullabies, it soothes, it applies balm. Practise the vocabulary of love; unlearn the language of hate and contempt.”

Sathya Sai Baba

"Divine Discourse" (19 February 1970)

“Christ declared. Sathya means Truth. 'He will wear a robe of red, a blood-red robe.' (Here the baba pointed to the red colored robe he happened to be wearing that day!). He will be short, with a crown (here he points to his hair). The lamb is the sign and symbol of love. Christ did not declare that he will come again, he said, 'He who made me will come again.' That ba ba (bleating of the sheep or lamb) is this Baba, and Sai, the short, curly-hair-crowned red-robed Baba, is come. He is not only this Form, but, he is every one of you, as the Dweller in the Heart.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 11, p. 346

“I have a "Task": To foster all mankind and ensure for all of them lives full of ananda (bliss). I have a "Vow": To lead all who stray away from the straight path again into goodness and save them. I am attached to a "work" that I love: To remove the sufferings of the poor and grant them what they lack. I have a "reason to be proud", for I rescue all who worship and adore me, aright. I have my definition of the "devotion" I expect: Those devoted to me have to treat joy and grief, gain and loss, with equal fortitude. This means that I will never give up those who attach themselves to me.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Letter that he wrote to his older brother Seshama Raju (1947) [Better dating and sourcing of any publication would be useful here]

“Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember -- nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sanathana Sarathi, August 1984

“Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Discourse 14-12-1958. Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 17

Sathya Sai Baba Quotes about life

“This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest… You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Statement (1968) as quoted in Sathya Sai Speaks Volume VIII, p. 99f

“Today man is putting his senses to misuse and as a result his body is becoming weaker day by day. He shortens his life-span by his unsacred vision and by indulgence in sensual pleasures. Lakhs of light rays in his eyes are being destroyed because of his unsacred vision. That is the reason what man is developing eye defects.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Discourse on 5/7/2001 in Sanathana Sarathi (August 2001) p. 226

“Life is a song - sing it.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba Quotes

“Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see!”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Speaks Vol.3 New Edition, p. 92,

“As the attraction power is increasing in Me… you are going to witness many astounding events in future… Even while I am speaking to you now, My feet are being pulled by the earth. If I lift one foot, the earth attracts the other foot. Whatever I touch with My hand, it also gets attracted. This magnetic power is present in every man… I try to lift My foot but it is very difficult.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sanathana Sarathi (April 2003), p. 123

“I will be in this mortal body form for 59 years more and I shall certainly achieve the purpose of this Avatar, do not doubt it.”

Sathya Sai Baba

29 September 1960 Sathya Sai Speaks v.1 <br class="br"> Sathya Sai Geetha (Volume 1), Page 4/4 http://www.sathyasai.org/discour/sathyasaispeaks/volume01/sss01-31.pdf

“My construction will cover the entire Universe.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba Discourse, October 1961 p. 120, 'Sathya Sai Speaks' Vol 2.

“I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathyam, Sivam, Sundaram - Part 3. by N. Kasturi. Page 305 US ed. Next to the last chapter.

“I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. II, p. 92

“As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.”

Sathya Sai Baba

05 Oct. 2003, Prasanthi Nilayam in Sathya Sai Speaks, volume 36 chapter 14, discourse title "Give up Dehabhimana develop Atmabhiman"

“Leadership is Idealism in Action.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Forward to the book Sai Baba's Mahavakya on Leadership by Lt. General Dr. M.L. Chibber, published by Leela Press, December 1996.
THE AVATAR: IN HIS OWN WORDS

“Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the last fifteen years. That the world is not in total destruction is due to the change of mind of Sai devotees and to Sai's grace.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Conversations with... Sathya Sai Baba by Dr. J. Hislop, p. 190 old ed., page 173 new edition

“Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sanathana Sarathi (January 2003), page 10

“Sai holds the universe in his hand”

Sathya Sai Baba

Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (1993) by Dr. J. Hislop. publ. Sathya Sai Publications and Book Trust, Puttaparthi.

“There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Discourse (28 September 1960). Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. I, p. 182.

“The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sanathana Sarathi (January 1999) page 16)

“What is it that brings to It the adoration of millions from all over the world? You will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this is the Supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Discourse 17/5/1968. Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 8, p 100

“The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings.”

Sathya Sai Baba

As quoted in Thought For The Day, K57, published by Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, Sathya Sai Baba Discourse, (21 October 1993), Sathya Sai Speaks Vol 26.

“I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.”

Sathya Sai Baba

US ed. of Kasturi's authorized biography Sathyam Sivam Sundaram Vol 3 page 315

“The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. 13, p 114

“Everyone should prepare NOW for this change, for I promise you that it will come, and only those who are ready will survive.”

Sathya Sai Baba

SSSBFM, (1991), p .223

“No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.”

Sathya Sai Baba

As quoted in Sai Baba: Man of Miracles (1977) by Howard Murphet, p. 208