Sai message for the day

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Swami! Today when we meet students and ask them what they are doing,

we hear them say that they are in the computer line or doing an M.

Tech. Course. We want to know Swami's views on this craze for

computer studies?

 

Sai Baba: One of the most important things you should know is that

all your modern education is within you. You are the `Computer'. You

are the `Generator'. There is `Electricity' in you. There is `Heat'

in you. You are the `Magnet'. Everything around you is nothing but

the `reflection', `reaction' and `resound' of your inner being.

 

You say that a computer is great. You stand in front of a computer

and put a question, " Who is my wife? " Do you get the answer? No. Why?

The computer should be fed with some information which you get back

as and when you want it, isn't it so? It shows only what has already

been supplied to it. Nothing new! It was, after all, a man who made

the computer. So, naturally, man is greater than a computer. Your

brain is a computer with all your memories and experiences recorded

therein. When a mosquito bites you even while you are talking to me,

you will pick it up and throw it out. How? There is communication. On

the way, when your eye finds a thorn, the leg automatically passes

it, but doesn't step on it. Why? There is a magnetic force within you.

 

When I ask you, " What are you doing? " some of you may say, `M. Tech'.

What do you mean by `M. Tech.'? You may reply, `Master of

Technology'. Then who is `master'? What is " Technology " ? A person who

has control over his senses is a `master', but not everybody. You are

merely `Misters' - Mr. Rao, Mr. Kumar and so on, and not `Master'.

You should use your `knowledge' for the advancement of society;

otherwise, it turns into `allergy'. You should go to society with

your knowledge, `Take knowledge'; this is `technology'. Otherwise it

is `tricknology'. It can never be `technology'.