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Love Quote by Sai Baba

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it"

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Sai Baba’s line reads like a string of simple imperatives, but its power is in how it turns spirituality into a set of everyday verbs. He doesn’t argue for a doctrine; he drafts a rhythm. Each clause gives life a metaphor, then snaps it into action: song/sing, game/play, challenge/meet. The pairing is almost liturgical, designed for repetition and memory, the way maxims travel in oral cultures and devotional settings.

The subtext is managerial in the best sense: life is not something you merely endure or decode, it’s something you are responsible for conducting. That matters in the context of a leader whose authority is pastoral rather than bureaucratic. Sai Baba’s public role relied on being accessible across class and education levels, and this language is engineered for mass uptake: short sentences, no abstractions, no insider theology. It’s spiritual counsel packaged like a pocket-sized program.

Notice the escalation. “Song” and “game” invite participation and even pleasure; “challenge” and “sacrifice” introduce cost. The quote quietly insists that joy and hardship aren’t competing narratives but consecutive movements in the same composition. Then the closer, “Life is love - enjoy it,” lands as both reward and discipline: love is framed not as sentimental fate but as a practice you can choose to inhabit. The intent isn’t to describe life; it’s to recruit you into it, with agency as the devotional act.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Baba, Sai. (2026, January 14). Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/life-is-a-song-sing-it-life-is-a-game-play-it-26136/

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Baba, Sai. "Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/life-is-a-song-sing-it-life-is-a-game-play-it-26136/.

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"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/life-is-a-song-sing-it-life-is-a-game-play-it-26136/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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