Sri Sathya Sai International Organization

Service is the highest of path of devotion which wins the grace of God. It promotes mental purity, diminishes egoism and enables one to experience, through sympathetic understanding, the unity of mankind.

One should keep giving and giving, without expecting anything in return. That is true love.

To think of God at all times and under all circumstances is true meditation. You should install God in your heart and discharge your duties with the feeling that God is the basis of everything. Only then can you be called a true devotee. Wherever you go, whatever you may do, recognise the truth that there is only one God and He is all-pervasive.

Love plus thoughts is truth; love plus feelings is peace; love plus action is right conduct and love plus understanding is non-violence. Love is the common denominator for all these values. It is the form of God, for God is love.

Sadhana (spiritual practice) means cultivating good thoughts and undertaking good deeds.

Devotion is the easiest way to win His grace and also to realise that He pervades everything — in fact, is everything.

God will grant you what you need and deserve; there is no need to ask, and no reason to grumble. Be content. Nothing can happen against His Will.

When the road ends, and the goal is gained, the pilgrim finds that he has travelled only from himself to himself, that the way was long and lonesome, but the God that led him unto it was all the while in him, around him, with him, and beside him! He himself always was Divine!

The Lord is a mountain of prema (love); any number of ants carrying away particles of sweetness cannot exhaust His Plenty. He is an Ocean of Mercy without a limiting shore.

The first thing you must do is develop self-confidence. People who have no confidence in their own selves begin to wander about, waver, and take various and sundry paths.