Sathya Sai Service Organisation, Republic of Ireland










QUOTATIONS





Wrong actions develop guilt feelings. Whereas right action is free and without such fear.


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The acid test by which an activity can be confirmed as holy or sacred is to examine whether it promotes attachment or avoids bondage.



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When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.



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One who has the true spirit of sacrifice gives to others without any hesitation or reservation, smilingly and gladly, even his dearest and highest possession.



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When you kill an animal you give him suffering, pain, harm. God is in every creature, so how can you give such pain?



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Believe in yourself, first. Then believe in the Lord. When you have faith in these two, neither the good nor the bad will affect you.



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The highest virtue is humility, surrender to God.



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Body is like a flashlight,
Eye is like the bulb,
Mind is the battery cell,
Intelligence is the switch,
Only when the four work together you get the light.



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Philosophy starts where physics ends.
Physics is useful, but it is only information. Spiritual life is transformation.



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Marriage is an exercise in controlling the senses.



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You must have physical strength, spiritual strength, and mental strength, and only when you have the three, then you can really do service. Food, head and God.



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Immortality is the fruit of Sacrifice.



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Karma means movement, work being done or an activity.



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Anger is the worst exhibition of the ego.



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Light spreads; it mingles with the light from other sources of light; it has no boundaries, no prejudices, no favourites.



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You toil day and night for this world, how many minutes do you devote for the master of the World?



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Above all we must derive self-satisfaction as a result of our acts.



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If you develop love you don't have to develop anything else.



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The most beneficial thing that can happen to a person is that he should draw God's love to himself.



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The Earth is a great enterprise, a busy factory, where the product is Love.



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Money decides what is taught and how it is learned. That is the bond between the teacher and the taught.



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With effort and prayer, Destiny can be attained. Start the effort!!



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If you wish to live longer, to be of service to society, to experience divinity for longer, then keep your food under check.



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Jesus was a person whose only joy was spreading Divine Love, offering Divine Love, receiving Divine Love, living as Divine Love.



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Today is Jesus' birthday. It is useless to put up lights and Christmas trees and forget about God all the rest of the year.



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When we live and practice Jesus' teachings we are true Christians not before.



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Children must grow up in the atmosphere of reverence, devotion, mutual service and cooperation.



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The whole of mankind belongs to one Religion - the Religion of Man.



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Don't read enervating or exciting stuff, don't attend film shows, which exhaust or inflame the mind.



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Meditation is constant inner inquiry as to who am "I", what is loving. and what is harsh.



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Learn this lesson of light and love: move out, clasp, spread, expand, give up limits of mine and thine, his and theirs, caste and creed in one limitless flow of love.













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