Most of you will surely boast that you have been visiting Puttaparthi since twenty years or that you have made the place your permanent residence; but, unless you follow the lessons I have been saying all the years that boast is nothing but empty and hollow. If you develop love for all beings, in the faith that God resides in all, you may be anywhere else, but your prayers would reach Me and My Grace will reach you.
- From Swami's Shivarathri Discourse in 1979 Om Sai Ram
