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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba
Cherish each other and assist others to ascend to higher standards, simply by distributing affection. Affection is contagious and the supreme curative force.
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
Sai Baba
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You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
Sai Baba
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.
Sai Baba
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Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.
Sai Baba
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Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply.
If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.
Sai Baba
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba
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The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.
Sai Baba
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True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.
Sai Baba
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Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
Sai Baba
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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!
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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No joy can equal the joy of serving others.
Sai Baba
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
Sai Baba
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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
Sai Baba
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Character is the most precious gift of education.
Sai Baba
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Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.
Sai Baba
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Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
Sai Baba
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There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
Sai Baba
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The universe is a great university.
Sai Baba
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The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.
Sai Baba
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Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.
Sai Baba
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.
Sai Baba
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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
Sai Baba
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Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.
Sai Baba
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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.
Sai Baba
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Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.
Sai Baba
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Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.
Sai Baba
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The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.
Sai Baba
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The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.
Sai Baba
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You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.
Sai Baba
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Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.
Sai Baba