Sai message for the day

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Swami! What are your comments on brain drain? Many highly educated

professionals like engineers, doctors, computer experts plan to go

abroad and settle there for better and higher prospects of income and

placement in life. This is the cause for worry in many circles, both

government and private. What do you feel about this?

 

Sai Baba: It is most unfortunate that this trend is on the rise. This

is not good at any point of time anywhere in the world. You are born

in this society. So you grow up, educate yourself, make money, name

and fame in this society. Only through this society you could get

your clothing, food and shelter: Have you come up on your own without

the society you live in? Could you make a career for yourself without

its support? Should you not express your sense of gratitude to it for

all it has done for you?

 

Man should never be an ungrateful creature. The best way to be

grateful is to serve. You know, our people put in greater effort, and

work more sincerely abroad. While they are here they don't show the

same spirit and the same zeal in their work. They are not as sincere

and industrious here as they are in foreign countries. In fact, the

emoluments they get here by doing their best will be the same as they

get abroad, a fact they fail to realise. To some extent, parents also

are responsible for this problem of brain drain. They don't properly

inculcate in children the values of work, patriotism, sacrifice, love

and gratitude.

 

So, it is your fundamental duty to serve the society in which you are

born and brought up. You see many a foreigner coming here. They learn

lots of things from this sacred land of your birth, whereas our

people forget what they know. Some of our people are even inferior to

locals and natives of foreign countries in respect of observing

traditions. What for is our education? Is it for the decline of human

values? Janani janmabhumi s'ca svargadapi gariyasi . Rama observed

`Mother and motherland are greater than Heaven.'