Sai message for the day

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Swami! In this modern age, many of us consider our age-old religious

rituals like yajnas and yagas meaningless, ridiculous and outdated.

Why has this happened?

 

Sai Baba: Ignorance is the main cause, the utter ignorance of

thoughtless speeches. A simple example. A District Collector went to

a village on official work. There in a field he saw a farmer who was

just throwing paddy grains on his plot of land. The official felt

that this was the reason why India was so poor. `What a funny man is

this rustic fellow throwing away paddy grains at a time when people

are starving, " he thought. He finally decided to ask the farmer why

he was doing like that. The farmer responded, " Sir, I am not wasting

these paddy grains. Today it looks as though one bag of paddy is just

thrown to the winds, but later you will get fifty bags of paddy out

of this one bag " . Then the Collector understood that he was mistaken.

 

Likewise, watching sacred rituals like yajnas and yagas, one might

feel that ghee and lots of other materials are wasted by being put

into the sacrificial fire. It is not so. The smoke that comes out of

this fire as these materials are poured into the fire, and the Vedic

mantras chanted simultaneously cleanse the polluted air. The whole

atmosphere is purified. So it is foolish to consider these rituals as

outdated, ridiculous, and meaningless. They ensure timely rains and

harvests. In fact all these rituals prescribed by our Vedic texts are

meant for the welfare of mankind and confer peace and bliss.