THE GOOD THAT YOU DO

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THE GOOD THAT YOU DO

Baba said, "If you can do anything, do some good unto other" in Sri Sai Satcharitra, ch. X.

The Polish Air Force Pilot, Roman Tursky, was flying his plane over Germany when

the plane developed mechanical trouble and he made a forced landing on German

soil. He sent his plane for repairs and spent the night at a hotel.

The next morning, as he left his room, and was walking in the corridor a little

man came running and collided against him. Roman Tursky naturally felt

offended. But as he looked at the face of the little man, he found it pale with

fright.

The man cried, "Gestapo! Gestapo!" (Gestapo was the German Secret Police). It

was obvious that the man was being hounded by the Secret Police and he wanted

to escape them. Roman Tursky understood the situation and instantly pushed the

man into his room, under his bed. Soon thereafter, the police came in and

interrogated Tursky. He did not understand their language, and the police went

away.

The pilot offered to take this man to Warsaw where he was flying, but suggested

that he get off a little before the plane reached the airport, as it was

possible the police there would search his plane. So he dropped the man in a

field a little before he reached the main airport. Sure enough, when he landed

at Warsaw, the police was already there in search of the man.

Soon thereafter, the second world war broke out. Poland was occupied by Germany.

Tursky flew to England and there joined the RAF, and became a war hero. He was a

brave man, and after destroying a number of enemy planes, his own plane was hit.

It crash-landed. The rescue party arrived there but found Tursky more dead than

alive. He was shifted to the nearest hospital. The doctors despaired of him and

hesitated to operate upon him.

The next day newspaper flashed the news of Tursky’s accident. Tursky was in a state of coma.

However, when he recovered, he found a short man looking at him through bright eyes.

"Do you remember me?" he asked Tursky.

"I was the one whom you saved. This morning, I read the news that you were in a

state of coma, hanging between life and death, and immediately, I flew here."

"What for?" asked Tursky.

"Because," the man answered, "I thought I might be of help. They say that I am

one of the best brain surgeons. I came here and performed the operation which

has saved your precious life."

When you do good, that good will return to you. The evil you do remains with you!

(East and West Series)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

If a thing or circumstance does not exist now, and to assume progress, success

and smartness in achieving these, is a great error. Non-existing thing cannot

exist forever – it is a rule. Whatever is perennial, remains so always,

achieving such a thing (Godly essence) is in reality progress, success or

smartness.

(Amrta Bindu. 40)

Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya.....

What is the age at which man should wish to die?

There are some who believe with the great French writer, Anatole France, that

man should die in the prime of his youth. Anatole France taught that man should

live like a butterfly and drinking beauty, quickly die. I believe otherwise.

The teachings has been given to us that man should attain to maturity before he

leaves the physical body. The physical body is had not without great labour. In

each incarnation, we have to undergo periods of infancy, childhood, and youth,

before we can attain full maturity of our faculties. Therefore, we must not

wish to die at an early age, but aspire to attain at least the biblical age of

three score years and ten.

It is only when the body becomes old and diseased or otherwise uninhabitable,

that we should wish for the release which death brings to the soul. Until such

time, we should continue to use the body as an instrument for our spiritual

evolution. Therefore, we should strive to keep the body pure and clean and

strong and, with every breath of our being, praise the Lord and sing His Holy

Name, and dedicate the body to the service of God and His suffering children.

(J.P. Vaswani)