“Seva (service) is greater than acquiring knowledge, japa or the chanting of the Name and other traditional such means of crossing the ocean of life or Samsara. Sadhana or Spiritual exercise, it is the best opportunity every human being has to realize God.”

                                  –Sathya Sai Baba, Love All, Serve All, Help Ever, Hurt Never

                                    (book commemorating Sathya Sai Baba’s 80th Birthday, 2005)

“It is not enough to appear to do right actions. Your motives and impulses must also be pure and unselfish. It is only when your motives are pure that the Divine will extend His grace. Whatever service you render, it must be unsullied. The motive is all important. The form of the action does not matter. Without pure impulses, actions get tainted at the source. If you are a good man, your actions will necessarily be good.”

                                  –Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol XVII, Chap 5