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 BABAMan 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.
More Sai Baba Quotes
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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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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.
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True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.
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Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
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Everyone’s God is One.
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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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Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.
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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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You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.
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Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.
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The learned man’s life itself shines as the message for mankind.
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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.
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Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one’s heart.
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Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
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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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It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.
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Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.
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Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.
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Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.
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Education should ennable 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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You seek too much information and not enough transformation.
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