Guru Purnima 2024: The full moon day of the Ashadha month is known as Guru Purnima or Vyasa Purnima. Traditionally, this day is reserved for Guru Puja or Guru Worship. On this day, disciples do Puja or show homage to their Gurus. The term guru refers to a spiritual guide who enlightens students with his knowledge and teachings.
Sai Baba, who incarnated in Kaliyuga is the most sought-after divine saint and gurus who is worshipped by his devotees. On the occasion of Guru Purnima, reflect upon the great teachings of the revered saint to make your life positive and attain success.
Guru Purnima 2024: 15 Best Sai Baba Quotes
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
8. There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
9. 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.
10. 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.
One of the most famous teachings of Shri Sai Baba is "Shraddha" - Faith and "Saburi" - Patience. (Image Source: Canva)
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.
14. 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.
15. Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.