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LIFE + DESIRE = MAN LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

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Sathya Sai Baba
Age: 84 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 23
Died: 2011
Died: April 24
Religious Leader
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Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Desire
Men
Life

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Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.
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A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.
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God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.
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You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.
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Love is ev­erything. Love is God. Live in love.
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Truth is man's nature to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.
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God is the Seed The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.
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Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.
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If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.
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The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.
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Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.
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God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.
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See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.
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We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.
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Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.
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The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.
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Control of senses is an important human value.
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I behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise and to warn.
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You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).
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Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.
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