Baba’s teachings cover many viewpoints, and seem to primarily be a resounding, world-emboldening ‘Yes!’ to all legitimate spiritual paths and the basic truths of all religions.  Most of Baba’s teachings focus on love - love for God and for all beings - as the essential core of spirituality:  “Start the day with Love.  Spend the day with Love.  Fill the day with Love.  End the day with Love.  This is the way to God!”  And this Love is to be given to everyone, always, without exception: “Love all, serve all!  Help ever, hurt never!”

Baba also stresses the practice of what He calls the five primary human values, namely, Love, Truth, Peace, Righteousness, and Non-violence.  In many of His discourses He asks us to dedicate all our actions to God and live in tireless selfless service to humanity.  He also lays importance on the practice of kindness, and the use of sweet speech under all circumstances, saying, “You cannot always oblige; but you can always speak obligingly.”  Baba advocates daily meditation for all, as well as repetition of God’s Names with love, devotional singing, and the practice of seeing and serving God within everyone, laying particular emphasis on continual remembrance of the Divine Reality.  “Spirituality means constant integrated awareness.”

Interestingly, He does not encourage His non-Hindu devotees to become Hindus, but rather, to use His teachings to become the best Christians, Jews, Muslims or Buddhists they can be.  Many of the devotional songs sung at Baba’s ashrams contain the names of Allah, Jesus, Zaroaster, Mahavir, Moses, Guru Nanak and the Buddha, in addition to the Hindu Avatars.  It seems to be a clear a way of saying, ‘Hear, O world!  The Lord is One!’  

“There is only one Religion, the Religion of Love.
There is only one caste, the caste of Humanity.
There is only one language, the language of the Heart.
There is only one God, and He is omnipresent.”