Sai message for the day

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Swami! We have on one side the most invaluable spirituality while on

the other, we have also friends and relatives diverting our attention

towards the world. No doubt, it is our fault to pay heed to their

words. Yet, we face the conflict. What is to be done?

 

Sai Baba: Today there are no true friends to anyone. Who are the

friends of today's world and of what sort are they? After all, your

friendship lasts for two or three years until you complete your

studies here and leave the hostel. Later you separate from each other

and go your own way. So long as you have money in your pocket and

your father is in a good position, everyone would come to you and

say " hello " , but the day your pocket is empty and your father

retires, you will be left with none even to say `good bye'. Can you

still call anyone your friend?

 

Friendship in Sanskrit is known as `maitri,' pronounced as `my-

three'. Here three represents the harmony in thought, word and deed.

Are there friends with this purity? Nowhere! Who is your true friend

then? God is your real friend. God is the only friend for you as He

is always with you and in you: Don't consider anyone else a friend of

yours. Further, you should be very careful with people or your

company. It is said, " Tell me your company, I shall tell you what you

are " .So all and sundry can't be your friends. A warrior of

outstanding stature and an expert in archery, Karna fell into

disrepute because he was in bad company and so he is branded as one

among the wicked four, the " dust a catustaya " , Duryodhana,

Dussasana, Sakuni and Kama.

 

Next, who are your relatives? In what way were you related to them

before you were born? All of them come in. with the passage of time

and pass off like passing clouds. Is it not so? Relatives come up to

the main door as one dies and the members of the family at the most

follow one's corpse to the, cremation ground. None follows the

departed soul. It is only God who is with you during your life and

even after your death. So God is your real friend and the only

relation. These worldly people shouldn't be taken as friends and

relatives.

 

Your life too is short. But God is awareness and existence. He is

there before, during, and after your life. He is the eternal truth.

So follow him, catch hold of God with your right hand as it is the

right thing and catch hold of the world with your left hand as it has

to be left behind sometime or other. It is thus the right thing to

remember God always.