--- title: "2 Promoting Quotes By Sathya Sai Baba" description: "2 Promoting quotes by Sathya Sai Baba. Plus more from Sathya Sai Baba and more Promoting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/125/sathya-sai-baba-712_distress_life-is-best-spent-in-alleviating-pain-a_2366580.png" --- > [Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/life-is-best-spent-in-alleviating-pain-assuaging-distress-and/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/125/sathya-sai-baba-712_distress_life-is-best-spent-in-alleviating-pain-a_2366580.png) > [Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/old-age-is-the-fourth-stage-by-the-time-one-reaches-this-stage-of-his/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/475/sathya-sai-baba-712_age_old-age-is-the-fourth-stage-by-the-time_3000694.jpg) ## Other authors on Promoting ## More by Sathya Sai Baba > [There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/there-is-no-one-who-can-change-my-course-or-affect-my-conduct-to-the/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/evil-habits-in-which-men-indulge-are-the-chief-cause-of-disease-in/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/knowledge-that-is-not-put-into-practice-is-like-food-that-is-not/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/the-sincere-effort-to-accept-and-promote-the-human-values-truth-right/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/god-is-one-there-are-not-many-gods-one-for-each-tribe-among-men/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/if-you-live-on-the-level-of-the-body-and-the-individual-you-will-get/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/where-there-is-no-purity-there-is-no-unity-without-unity-you-cannot/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/it-is-when-you-experience-another-s-suffering-as-your-own-that-your/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [My construction will cover the entire Universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/my-construction-will-cover-the-entire-universe/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/the-mother-must-set-the-example-in-holding-out-the-shrine-as-the/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/you-weave-the-threads-and-there-is-the-cloth-if-the-threads-are/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/your-sight-must-become-an-insight-it-must-be-turned-within-and-used/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/of-the-twenty-four-hours-a-day-use-six-for-earning-and-spending-six/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/do-not-think-about-the-body-the-body-comes-and-goes-for-it-there-is/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) > [Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/develop-the-feeling-of-brotherhood-of-man-and-fatherhood-of-god/) [Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/promoting/sathya-sai-baba/#itemlist", "name": "2 Promoting Quotes By Sathya Sai Baba", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. 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