Sai message for the day

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Swami! In reality, the entire human race is one and the same, its

basic core being divinity. Why then do we not react in the same way?

Why do we think and act differently?

 

Sai Baba: Humanity may be one, but people act in different ways. No

two are alike. This is the law of nature. Thought, words and actions

depend on time and circumstances. Here is an example. A tender fruit

is sour in its taste; an unripe fruit is astringent, while a ripe

fruit is sweet. All the three are the stages of the same fruit,

aren't they! It is sour, then astringent and finally sweet. How does

it happen? Why? The change of taste is due to the passage of time. No

one has filled the ripe fruit with sugar. So, I say " yetti matiyo,

atti gati. yetti sthitio, atti sampatti " (Telugu verse). As is the

mati, mind, so is the gati, destiny; as is the position, so is the

sampatti, affluence.

 

In human life there are three important aspects, `doing',

Body, 'thinking', Mind, `being', Atma. Body desires, mind thinks and

atma experiences. You should have broad-mindedness. You should never

be narrow-minded. When examination results are published, why don't

you feel happy that so many have passed the examinations? If in the

spirit of a large heart, you look for your result, you will

definitely find your number in the newspaper along with those of

other candidates. It is but narrow-­mindedness if you look only for

your own number unmindful of others.

 

Another example. Suppose you feel happy that in a group photo

everyone has figured nicely. If you then look at your own figure, you

will be known to be broadminded.

 

Human life is a combination of three attributes -trigunas . The three

work in perfect union as the three wings of a fan. Just as a chutney

is made of tamarind, salt and chillies well ground, so also human

life has ` trigunas,' well mixed. You also must have known pan, which

Indians chew. It has three ingredients, betel leaf, betel nut and

lime, of green, brown and white colours respectively. When the

ingredients of three different colours are chewed you get the red

colour.

 

Similarly, in human life all the three gun as are intermixed. But

spiritually, basically and fundamentally, the core of the human being

is sat, `being', cit, `awareness' and ananda, `bliss'. Sat and cit

together confer ananda.

 

An example. Here are two separate things, water and sugar. When you

mix the two it is neither sugar nor water, but syrup. So also water

is sat, sugar is cit, forming the syrup ananda. The triune -trigunas

(three attributes) and the basic nature of sat, cit, and ananda mixed

with deha, `body,' manas `mind,' and buddhi `intellect,' interacting

with pravrtti, ` the external world' lead to anekatva `diversity or

multiplicity or plurality'