Life is a long garland of blossoms, fair and faded, fragrant and futile. They are, so to say, the good and bad of life. Man recognizes only the blossoms, happy over some, unhappy over most; he does not see the string on which they are bound together, the Brahmasuthra, the lasting fadeless Brahma-principle that gives stability to the short-lived flowers. Just as sparrows during a storm fly towards a warm shelter, man too, must take shelter in the Divine principle to escape from the storms of life.

- Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.VII. P.124.