Sathya Sai Baba Quotes

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Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

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Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

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

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Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

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Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

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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.

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The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

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

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A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.

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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.

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The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.

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So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world.

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Mind, word and act; all three must be filled with the belief that all is His play; that is the genuine path.

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

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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.

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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

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

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Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

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Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

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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.

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