Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.
What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.
The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.
Human values should predominate in men’s thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.
Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.
Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.
Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.
Adore man, the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service.
God rewards according to the mannerin which He is conceived or approached.
God plays pranks and directs.
Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.
Control of senses is an important human value.
Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.
As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.
Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.
Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.
Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man, in his ignorance, is not aware of these values. When man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.
Leadership is Idealism in Action.
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.
If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.