“LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE – DESIRE = GOD.”
Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011) Indian guru
Interview with R.K. Karanjia for Blitz magazine (1976)
“The desire of love, Joy:
The desire of life, Peace:
The desire of the soul, Heaven:
The desire of God … a flame-white secret forever.”
Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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