Sai Baba Quotes

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

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.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

True beauty lies in true education.

Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

The universe is a great university.

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.