Sathya Baba Quotes on Desire (11 Quotes)

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun it gets longer when you run to catch it makes you a fool.

Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

Dispel desire, Develop true love.

Human desire is illimitable and without end. It makes you pursue the mirage in the desert it makes you build castles in the air it breeds discontent and despair, once you succumb to it.

The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality, directed towards God is known as devotion.

Fancy and Fantasy rule the mind of man. You desire one thing in the morning at noon you change over to something else. That desire will not persist until evening. If your desire is fulfilled, you praise God and parade your devotion. But if it does not prevail, you throw God overboard and parade your disbelief

Desire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.

Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal), one should start on the path of sacrifice.

You are happy, that you have come on a pilgrimage here, but let Me tell you one thing, unless you control the stream of desire that springs in the mind, this is just a wasted opportunity. If your wish is fulfilled, you revere Me if it is not, you revile Me. That is how Desire debases you.

Wealth has to be earned through Righteousness. Desire has to be for Liberation.