- A human body is better than other bodies–
- Despite its filth, mucus, and susceptibility to decay, disease, and death, the human body’s special value lies in its capacity to acquire knowledge and attain God-vision, which is impossible in any other birth.
- Love is better than intelligence-
- The pure love of Shirdi women, despite their ignorance, inspired them to compose poems, implying that love is more inspiring than intelligence.
- Giving food is better than other charities-
- While other charities like giving away wealth, property, and clothes require some discrimination, offering food requires no such consideration.
- Also, the merit of feeding lame, crippled, blind, and diseased paupers is much greater than that of feeding able-bodied persons and relations.
- Butter-milk (Leelas) is better than Milk (Darshan)-
- If one desires to see Sai Baba’s but they did not get any opportunity of taking His darshan, their quest for milk (darshan) will be, to a great extent, satisfied by the butter-milk (Leelas).
- Remembering and chanting Hari’s and Guru’s name confers salvation is better than getting the powerful Bhakti of the Nathas-
- one Madhavarao did not like Kakasaheb’s pessimistic attitude of how to get the powerful Bhakti of the Nathas, as he said, ‘has not Baba told us authoritatively that remembering and chanting Hari’s and Guru’s name confers salvation? Then where is the cause for fear and anxiety?’
- The observance of the vow of silence is the best way of praising the Sad-guru-
- In reality, the observance of the vow of silence is the best way of praising the Sad-guru.
- Having recourse to Sai Baba’s Feet and surrendering to Him is the best luck-
- The best luck is to get an opportunity to have recourse to Sai Baba’s Feet and surrender to Him, than any other
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Where certain actions or entities are considered better than others
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Who is competent to accept our’s bad thoughts, and return Good thoughts
There is a soiled and tattered currency note with you. No one is prepared to accept it from you.
But when it is tendered to the Reserve Bank, which issued it, it is bound to accept it and issue a new note in return.
Likewise, who is competent to accept one’s bad thoughts, perverse feelings and evil intentions? Only the Almighty can accept them.
God is the Spiritual Reserve Bank that will accept the soiled notes of your mind and give in return good currency (in the form of good thoughts).
Hence, offerings should be made only to those who are competent to receive them. All bad thoughts and feelings should be offered to God so that we may receive, by His grace, good thoughts and feelings in return.
Spirituality, thus, means transforming one’s life into an ideal one by offering one’s bad qualities to the Lord and receiving from Him good qualities in return.
– Divine Discourse by Puttaparti Satya Sai Baba, May 24, 1992
"I draw to Me, My man from far off or even across the seven Seas to Shirdi, like a sparrow with a string fastened to its feet"-Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Guru-God 