Sai message for the day

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Swami! How can we come up in life?

 

Sai Baba: You have to work for it. It may be difficult, but it is

desirable to achieve it. In fact, everyone should strive to come up

in life, So, it is said, `Aim high. Low aim is a crime'. One has to

travel in the right direction and reach the goal. Birth as a human

being is meant for this purpose. Man has to realise that he is

essentially divine. One has to attain Divinity. But this is not as

easy and as simple as it seems. After all, a fall is easy and quick

too.

 

Take this example. As you come to Kodaikanal by bus climbing the

hills, the bus makes a lot of noise. Lorries also struggle and make

loud sounds climbing these hills and reaching Kodaikanal. But, the

very same bus or lorry finds it easy to go downhill. So is the case

with human life too! You have to struggle and work hard to come up in

life. But to fall from a height and ruin yourself is easy, simple,

and quick.

 

Take another example. When you shoot an arrow, the more you pull it

backwards closer to the string, the arrow goes farther. Similarly, if

you work more, your success will be equally greater. A rocket, the

moment it is launched with force, jerks backwards and thereafter it

gets released into space where it rises with burning flames. So, in

life the amount of effort you put in decides your rate of success.