Sai Baba of Shirdi

~ 1838 Pathri, India - October 15, 1918) Shirdi, India
Path: his own wikipedia

All gods are one. There is no difference between a Hindu and a Muslim. Mosque and temple are the same.

All that is seen is my form: ant, fly, prince, and pauper.

Always think of God and you will see what He does.

Avoid unnecessary disputations.

Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.

Be contented and cheerful with what comes.

Choose friends who will stick to you till the end, through thick and thin.

Death and life are the manifestations of God’s activity. You cannot separate the two. God permeates all.

Distinguish right from wrong and be honest, upright and virtuous.

Do not bark at people and don’t be aggressive, but put up with others’ complaints.

Do not be idle: work, utter God’s name and read the scriptures.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action: everything is due to God.

Do not be obsessed by the importance of wealth.

Do not fight with anyone, nor retaliate, nor slander anyone.

Do not kick against the pricks of life.

Fulfill any promises you have made.

Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.

Get on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.

Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.

God has agents everywhere and their powers are vast.

God is not so far away. He is not in the heavens above, nor in hell below. He is always near you.

God will show His love. He is kind to all.

Harsh words cannot pierce your body. If anybody speaks ill of you, just continue on unperturbed.

Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.

However distant my people may be, I draw them to me just as we pull a bird to us with a string tied to its foot.

I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see taken together is Myself.

I am the slave of my devotee.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

I am your servants’ servant.

If anyone offends you do not return tit for tat.

I cannot do anything without God’s permission.

I do not shake or move.

If one sees me and me alone and listens to my Leelas and is devoted to me alone, they will reach God.

I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers?

I give my devotees whatever they ask, until they ask for what I want to give.

I have to take care of my children day and night and give an account to God of every paisa.

I look on all with an equal eye.

I love devotion.

I stay by the side of whoever repeats my name.

I will not allow my devotees to come to harm.

I will take you to the end.

If a devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands to support him or her. I think of my people day and night. I say their names over and over.

If formless meditation is difficult, then think of my form just as you see it here. With such meditation, the difference between subject and object is lost and the mind dissolves in unity.

If anyone gets angry with another, they wound me to the quick.

If we see all actions as God’s doing, we will be unattached and free from karmic bondage.

If you are wealthy, be humble. Plants bend when they bear fruit.

If you avoid rivalry and dispute, God will protect you.

If you cannot endure abuse from another, just say a simple word or two, or else leave.

If you do not want to part with what you have, do not lie and claim that you have nothing, but decline politely saying that circumstances or your own desires prevent you.

If you make me the sole object of your thoughts and aims, you will gain the supreme goal.

Let us be humble.

Look to me and I will look to you.

Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.

Meditate on what you read and think of God.

Mukti is impossible for those addicted to lust.

My business is to give blessings.

My devotees see everything as their Guru.

My eye is ever on those who love me.

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

My treasury is open but no one brings carts to take from it. I say, “Dig!” but no one bothers.

No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.

One’s sin will not cease till one falls at the feet of Sadhusò

Other people’s acts will affect just them. It is only your own deeds that will affect you.

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. Why then come to Shirdi and slander people?

Poverty is the highest of riches and a thousand times superior to a king’s wealth.

Put full faith in God’s providence.

Recognize the existence of the Moral Law as governing results. Then unswervingly follow this Law.

Saburi (patience) ferries you across to the distant goal.

Satsang that is associating with the good is good. Dussaya, or associating with evil-minded people, is evil and must be avoided.

See the divine in the human being.

Speak the truth and truth alone.

Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant.

Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.

Surrender completely to God.

That should be our desire and determination.

The four sadhanas and the six Sastras are not necessary. Just has complete trust in your guru: it is enough.

The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later: the gift of a rich harvest.

The Moral Law is inexorable, so follow it, observe it, and you will reach your goal: God is the perfection of the Moral Law.

The wise are cheerful and content with their lot in life.

There is a wall of separation between oneself and others and between you and me. Destroy this wall!

This body is just my house. My guru has long ago taken me away from it.

Those who think that Baba is only in Shirdi have totally failed to know me.

To God be the praise. I am only the slave of God.

Trust in the Guru fully. That is the only sadhana.

Wealth is really a means to work out dharma. If one uses it merely for personal enjoyment, it is vainly spent.

What do we lose by another’s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them.

What God gives is never exhausted, what man gives never lasts.

What is our duty? To behave properly. That is enough.

What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get.

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

Whatever you do, wherever you may be, always bear this in mind: I am always aware of everything you do.

When you see with your inner eye. Then you realize that you are God and not different from Him.

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Whoever makes me the sole object of their love, merges in me like a river in the ocean.

Whoever withdraws their heart from wife, child, and parents and loves me, is my real lover.

Why fear when I am here?

Without my grace, not even a leaf can move.

You should not stay for even one second at a place where people are speaking disrespectfully of a saint.