Baba Quotes

“Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.”

The two coins of dakshina Baba actually asked for. Faith without patience runs out; patience without faith goes cold.

“Why fear when I am here?”

Baba's most repeated reassurance, and the one devotees say to each other still.

“Trust in me and your prayer shall be answered.”

Not always in the shape asked for — but answered.

“Be patient. Sabar — patience — is a manly quality; it removes all sin and sorrow.”

Baba spoke of Saburi as strength, not resignation.

“If you cast your burden on me, I shall surely bear it.”

The invitation at the heart of Baba's path — and the hardest one to actually accept.

“Look to me, and I look to you.”

Attention given is attention returned, wholeheartedly and in the same measure.

“Nothing will harm him who turns his attention towards me.”

Baba placed the condition on the devotee's attention, never on their worthiness.

“I am the slave of my devotee.”

Said by the one everyone came to serve. Baba reversed every hierarchy he was placed at the top of.

“Be wherever you like, do whatever you choose — remember this well, that all you do is known to me.”

Not surveillance but company: there is no place outside His notice.

“He who does good to others, does good to himself.”

The plainest account of seva Baba ever gave.

“Whatever you give away, comes back to you.”

Baba took small coins and gave them away the same day, keeping nothing overnight.

“Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.”

Worship measured in what leaves your hands, not in what is recited.

“If a dog or a cat comes to you, do not drive it away — it is I who wander in that form.”

Baba insisted that the guest at the door was never merely a guest.

“Speak the truth, and truth alone.”

He asked for it of everyone, and treated a broken word as a serious matter.

“Sabka Malik Ek — one God governs all.”

The sentence carved over Baba's whole life, and the reason this temple is open to everyone.

“Allah Malik — God is the sole owner. Nobody else is our protector.”

Baba lived in a mosque, was buried in a temple, and never once let either fact become a boundary.

“I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space.”

Baba's answer to devotees who worried about being far from Shirdi.

“In whatever faith men worship me, even so do I render unto them.”

Also one of the Eleven Assurances — Baba met each devotee inside their own tradition.

“My treasury is full, but no one brings carts to take from it.”

Baba's gentle complaint: the grace was never the scarce thing.

“What of my two paise? Give me Shraddha and Saburi.”

Money Baba handed on. Faith and patience He kept, because they were for the giver.

“Unless there is some relationship or connection, nobody goes anywhere.”

Said to devotees arriving at Shirdi for the first time and feeling like strangers.

“I give people what they want, in the hope that they will begin to want what I have to give.”

Baba's account of why He answered small worldly prayers at all.

“There is no need for long practices. If the devotee has faith, he attains everything.”

The path Baba taught was short, and difficult only in its simplicity.