“Health and happiness go together. Happiness is a vain dream if health is absent. The Shruthis (holy scriptures) declare that health is a very basic quality for man since without it he cannot realise any of the four goals of life, right doing, right desiring, right earning and final release. A sound mind needs a sound body; the one reacts on the other. The world is supposed to be only the projection of the mind, when the mind is inoperative during deep sleep, the world too is inoperative and non-existent. The mind too has to be healthy.”

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

“Seva is prescribed as one among the nine steps towards Realisation. You must therefore be earnest about it and welcome all chances to serve the old, the sick, the disabled, the diseased and the distressed. Holding a fruit in the hand is just a preliminary step; eating and digesting must follow, so that you may be healthy and happy. So, too, wearing a scarf and badge round the neck is but an indication of the joy that is within reach when you actually serve. Your Seva will be Judged with reference to the mental attitude accompanying it. So, whatever work Is allotted, do it with fervour, understanding and reverence. In seva there can be no high or low, for Sai is in all. Sai receives your seva, to whomsoever you may offer lt.”

...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