Sai Baba Quotes

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.