SELECTION OF 100 SHIRDI SAI BABA SAYINGS

<h1 align="center"><b><span> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">SELECTION OF 100 SHIRDI SAI BABA SAYINGS</span></span><o></o></span></b></h1><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">A Collection from Sri Sai Satcharita</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNANpJbb2s1RIubq1SVRpvb5xVEnCocA2yAZ9P7-v4hJdAwnKmncBx7pP7f10YnlOGhEzx1MFUhiutAdPhNEQsIdkvmUK6RjZwm4r74ncteRvNx-I0Zwhu9IppG3NR4w1QkGurbpq1trU/s1600/tollyandhra.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNANpJbb2s1RIubq1SVRpvb5xVEnCocA2yAZ9P7-v4hJdAwnKmncBx7pP7f10YnlOGhEzx1MFUhiutAdPhNEQsIdkvmUK6RjZwm4r74ncteRvNx-I0Zwhu9IppG3NR4w1QkGurbpq1trU/s1600/tollyandhra.gif" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> </span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Why fear when I am here?</span></span><span><o></o></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I am formless and everywhere</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space</span></span><span><o></o></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">All that you see taken together is Myself. </span> <o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I do not shake or move</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If one devotes his entire time to me and rests in me, he need fear nothing for body and soul.</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If one sees me and me alone and listens to my Leelas and is devoted to me alone, he will reach God</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">My business is to give blessings</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers?</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">I will take you to the end.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Surrender completely to God</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If you make me the sole object of your thoughts and aims, you will gain the supreme goal.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Trust in the Guru fully. That is the only sadhana</span><o></o></span></b></div><h3 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I am the slave of my devotee</span></span></b></h3><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">What is our duty? To behave properly. That is enough</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">My eye is ever on those who love me</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Whatever you do, wherever you may be, always bear this in mind: I am always aware of everything you do.</span><o></o></span></b></div><h4 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I will not allow my devotees to come to harm</span></span></b></h4><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If a devotee is about to fall, I stretch out my hands to support him or her.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">I think of my people day and night. I say their names over and over.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">My treasury is open but no one brings carts to take from it. I say, “Dig!” but no one bothers.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">All that is seen is my form: ant, fly, prince, and pauper</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">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</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I love devotion.</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">This body is just my house. My guru has long ago taken me away from it</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Those who think that Baba is only in Shirdi have totally failed to know me</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Without my grace, not even a leaf can move</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I look on all with an equal eye</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I cannot do anything without God’s permission</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">God has agents everywhere and their powers are vast</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I have to take care of my children day and night and give an account to God of every paisa</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">The wise are cheerful and content with their lot in life</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If you are wealthy, be humble. Plants bend when they bear fruit.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Get on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Do not kick against the pricks of life</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Do not be obsessed by the importance of wealth</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">See the divine in the human being</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Do not bark at people and don’t be aggressive, but put up with others’ complaints</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">There is a wall of separation between oneself and others and between you and me. Destroy this wall!</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Saburi (patience) ferries you across to the distant goal</span></span></b></h2><h1 align="center"><b><span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The four sadhanas and the six Sastras are not necessary. Just has complete trust in your guru: it is enough</span></span><o></o></span></b></h1><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss</span></span></b></h2><h5 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">God is not so far away. He is not in the heavens above, nor in hell below. He is always near you</span></span></b></h5><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If anyone gets angry with another, they wound me to the quick</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If you cannot endure abuse from another, just say a simple word or two, or else leave.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> What do we lose by another’s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them.<br /> That should be our desire and determination.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><h5 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I stay by the side of whoever repeats my name</span></span></b></h5><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">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.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If anyone offends you do not return tit for tat.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Whoever makes me the sole object of their love, merges in me like a river in the ocean.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Look to me and I will look to you.</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">What God gives is never exhausted, what man gives never lasts</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Be contented and cheerful with what comes.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">My devotees see everything as their Guru.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Poverty is the highest of riches and a thousand times superior to a king’s wealth.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Put full faith in God’s providence.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Whoever withdraws their heart from wife, child, and parents and loves me, is my real lover.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Distinguish right from wrong and be honest, upright and virtuous.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action: everything is due to God.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">If we see all actions as God’s doing, we will be unattached and free from karmic bondage</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Other people’s acts will affect just them. It is only your own deeds that will affect you.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Do not be idle: work, utter God’s name and read the scriptures.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">If you avoid rivalry and dispute, God will protect you.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">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?</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Speak the truth and truth alone.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Do not fight with anyone, nor retaliate, nor slander anyone.</span><o></o></span></b></div><h2 align="center"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Harsh words cannot pierce your body. If anybody speaks ill of you, just continue on unperturbed</span></span></b></h2><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Choose friends who will stick to you till the end, through thick and thin.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Meditate on what you read and think of God.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">I give my devotees whatever they ask, until they ask for what I want to give.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">You should not stay for even one second at a place where people are speaking disrespectfully of a saint.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">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.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Let us be humble</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Satsang that is associating with the good is good. Dussaya, or associating with evil-minded people,<br /> is evil and must be avoided.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Recognize the existence of the Moral Law as governing results. Then unswervingly follow this Law.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> All gods are one. There is no difference between a Hindu and a Muslim. Mosque and temple are the same.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Fulfill any promises you have made.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Death and life are the manifestations of God’s activity. You cannot separate the two. God permeates all.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Mukti is impossible for those addicted to lust.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">When you see with your inner eye. Then you realize that you are God and not different from Him.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Avoid unnecessary disputation</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later: the gift of a rich harvest.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Wealth is really a means to work out dharma. If one uses it merely for personal enjoyment, it is vainly spent.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">To God be the praise. I am only the slave of God.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> God will show His love. He is kind to all.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> One’s sin will not cease till one falls at the feet of Sadhus</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">The Moral Law is inexorable, so follow it, observe it, and you will reach your goal: God is the perfection of the Moral Law.</span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoBodyText2"><b><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">I am your servants’ servant.</span></strong></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;"> Always think of God and you will see what He does.</strong></span><o></o></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.</span></span></b></div>

SELECTION OF 100 SHIRDI SAI BABA SAYINGS

SELECTION OF 100 SHIRDI SAI BABA SAYINGS A Collection from Sri Sai Satcharita   Why fear when I am here? I am formless and everywhere ...

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