Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - July 25, 2005

[Guest guest]

"Kaarunyam paramam thapah" (Compassion towards all beings is the

highest spiritual discipline). Man is the crown of creation; he is the

highest among living beings. Therefore, he bears a great

responsibility. He has to love other living beings, serve them and

save them, for they are his kith and kin, and they too have the Divine

Principle as their core. But, man is proving himself worse than

animals due to self-centeredness, conceit, envy and anger. Though man

is endowed with the virtues of compassion, charity, sympathy,

fortitude and joy, he has given up these virtues and become inhuman in

conduct and behaviour.

 

-SAI BABA