Sai message for the day

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Swami! In your organisation or your institutions, workers, students,

teachers, devotees and doctors wear white dress always. Why? What is

the reason?

 

Sai Baba: White dress symbolises purity and cleanliness. A pure white

cloth may be compared to a clean mirror. If dust gathers on the

mirror, you will not be able to see your reflection clearly.

Similarly, buddhi, intellect, is like a clean white cloth. It is only

then that you will be able to find out your own faults and apply your

discrimination to rectify them. Today, this is not happening. People

are able to see clearly the mistakes of others and don't find their

own faults. If you stand in front of your mirror, you see your

reflection. But, if you turn the mirror, towards the other man,

naturally you find his reflection. Isn't it so? Similarly, the mirror

of your buddhi or intellect is turned towards others, and this makes

you see the mistakes of others.

 

Even the slightest spot or mark is very clearly visible on a white

dress. If you wear coloured dress, you don't see dirt, dots, spots,

marks or stains and so on. This is wrong. You should never hide and

cover the dirt on your person. You should immediately clean and wash

it off. You should share the good with others. Neither good nor bad

should be in you. You should shed the bad in you and share the good

with others. But, some of you keep the good to yourselves and

distribute the bad to others. It is a mistake on your part to do so.

 

Lord Siva offers you the best way by setting forth an ideal to this

world. He kept and retained poison in His throat. So, He is

nilakantha , the blue-throated God. But, the cool and comforting

moonlight from the moon over His head is distributed to others. It is

for this purpose of sharing comfort with others that He kept the moon

on His head.