Sai message for the day

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Swami! How should we conduct ourselves socially? What are social

norms?

 

Sai Baba: You should forget two things: the help you have given to

others and the harm others have done to you. Moreover, you should

remember two things: the help that others have given to you and the

harm you have done to others. Then there will be no ego, pride,

jealousy, envy, hatred, and other evil tendencies in you.

 

You should also note another important thing. However small a fault

or mistake there is in you, take it as a very big one. At the same

time when you notice a big mistake in others, you should consider it

a very small one. Take your own goodness as tiny and that of others

as mighty. This attitude helps you to correct yourself, improve

yourself, and enable you to forgive and forget the lapses of others.

 

But, today quite the opposite is happening. Everyone magnifies his

own goodness and minimises that of others, considers his own

Himalayan blunders small as an anthill, while he gives Himalayan

magnitude even to the smallest mistakes of others. This is the cause

of all conflicts and infighting.

 

There are still two more extreme categories of people. Some of them

portray their lapses as merits, project their mistakes as right

things, and try to focus on their virtues, which are actually missing

in them. Then, there is the last category of people who are even

worse than demons. These are the people who attribute faults,

mistakes, and defects to others, which are all false, and totally

ignore their merits. Correct your own mistakes first. Judge others by

their merits and not by their faults. Seek out your own faults and

others' merits.