“The current belief is that medicine is to be valued for its validity during illness. Its use ends with the cure. But this point of view has to change. Medicine is used to see that one does not fall ill, not so much as to raise him up when he falls, just as the purpose of truth is to so live that one is not subjected to birth again.”

...Sathya Sai Baba, “The Doctor’s Profession” Discourse, September 1980   http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume14/sss14-53.pdf

“The service that you render must reward you, not only with your satisfaction but with the satisfaction and relief of those whom you serve. When those whom you serve are not relieved or made happy thereby, of what avail is your elation or exultation at the help you have been allowed to offer? You should have the joy of the recipient as your objective. Do not sit back and talk of your having done what is expected of you, but try to discover whether your act of service has really been worth-while, whether it has been intelligently rendered with full appreciation of the peculiar circumstances of the individual who needed it.“

...Sathya Sai Baba, “No Bumps, No Jumps”, 3^rd All India Conference of SSS Seva Dal, 14 November 1975  
http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume13/sss13-18.pdf