Sai message for the day

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Swami! Why do we differ? Why does our behaviour vary? What is the

root cause behind these differences? How are we to cultivate ideal

and good ways in life?

 

Sai Baba: Since you have not studied and understood human nature

wholly, you get this doubt. Man is a combination of three main

qualities, demonic, bestial and human. It is the human quality that

helps you to attain divinity.

 

You take, for example, an orange fruit. In it there are an outer

bitter skin, hard seeds and soft juicy pulp. So also a human being

has a demonic nature like the outer bitter skin of an orange, bestial

temperament like the hard seeds; and finally the human values like

the soft juicy pulp. Take for example a ripe tamarind fruit. Its

outer skin is the bestial nature, its hard seeds symbolise demonic

nature while its soft pulp is the human behaviour. If the pulp joins

the seed, i.e., if human nature is in association with demonic

behaviour, it expresses itself like a demon. If the soft pulp

associates itself with the outer skin, i.e. if human nature joins

bestial behaviour, it manifests itself as a beast.

 

So, more or less, this depends on the association, be it demonic or

bestial. This is the root cause of all the differences. But it is

human value that makes you ideal and enables you to experience

divinity. There lies the sweetness and purpose of life.