Sai message for the day

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Swami! What is essential for us now?

 

Sai Baba: If you have love, it is enough. Everything will be added

unto you. Service, sacrifice, humility, devotion, discipline, etc are

contained within love. It is only love that prompts and promotes all

virtues. Where there is love, there will be no ego, hatred, jealousy

and such other low mean, animal qualities.

 

There was a lady in Paris. She led her life with the little money she

had. She saw one day some helpless footpath dwellers shivering in the

cold. She was deeply moved by this sight. Everyday she used to take a

few blankets along with her and offer them to those poor, needy and

forlorn. This had gone to the notice of the elders and finally the

government. They decided to honour her. A few youngsters came to her

to congratulate her. She said that she was not happy since she could

not help everyone, when the compassionate Almighty God was helping

everyone always. She further added that she felt ashamed and

frustrated, as her help could not be extended to everyone.

 

I will tell you another story. There was in an army a soldier who

lost both his legs in a war and had to move with the help of

crutches. Since his service was relatively short, he was not eligible

for all the retirement benefits. The Major of his unit gave him some

money and asked him to return. The soldier, on his way back home, had

to stop in a village and take shelter in a choultry as it was raining

heavily. The money on hand also was exhausted. Next morning, a

schoolgirl happened to pass the same street, saw this soldier, and

made enquiries. The girl was deeply moved by his plight. Since then,

she used to go to school an hour early everyday, collect some fruits

on the way, sell them, and purchase a few chapatis for the soldier.

 

After a couple of weeks, the Major happened to pass the same way and

noticed the soldier. The major was surprised to see him, for even

after a long time he had not yet reached home due to paucity of

funds. The Major found out how the soldier was managing himself all

these days. In the meantime, the girl came and served chapatis to the

soldier. The Major followed her and went to her house. On seeing him

her parents thought that their daughter must have done something

wrong and so he had come to make an enquiry. When they were about to

punish her, the Major intervened and said to her parents, " You are

indeed very lucky! How many of us have such children with

magnanimity, love, concern for the needy, and the spirit of service? "

He was about to give some gold coins to her parents who said " Sir! We

don't want all this. We can live with our hard earned money. Who can

guard these gold coins at home? Please leave us alone, Sir! " The

Major felt happy and left for his native place where he found an

eligible bridegroom for this girl and performed her marriage. This is

the true wealth of love. `Expansion of love is life. Contraction of

love is death'