“Be careful about your physical health. Satisfy the demands of nature; the car must be given the petrol that it needs. Otherwise, your head might reel and your eyes might get blurred through sheer exhaustion. How can thoughts of the Lord be stabilised in a weak frame? Only, do not forget the purpose of this body when you are tending it… that you have come embodied so that you might realise the end of this cycle of birth and death.”

...Sathya Sai Baba, SSS01, Chapter 5, “ Meditation on the Lord’s Form and Name”, Divine Discourse, Chitravati River Bed Puttaparthi, 23 Feb 1958

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“...Know something of the joy that service to those in distress can give, service without a thought of the benefits that may follow from the sympathy shown. Learn to lay aside the egoism that poisons the selfless service of even veterans in the field, who go about extolling themselves.. The joy of selfless service is the act itself. The fruit of the selfless service is the removal of egoism, not its multiplication.”

...Sathya Sai Baba, SSS01, Chapter 16, Training, Divine Discourse Venkatagiri Town, 9 Sept 1958                

https://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume01/sss01.pdf