All-India Conference of Workers of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organizations
22 November 1970
Story
When you attempt to deceive another, remember there will emerge some one who can deceive even you. There was a thief once who was skilled in all the stratagems and tricks of that profession. There was not a single one that he had not mastered. One day, after collecting a large number of costly articles and bundling them up, he was moving along a lonely road with the booty on his shoulder. He saw a child standing on the bank of a wayside tank, weeping aloud, in great distress. The thief went near and asked, "Why are you weeping? What has happened to you?" The child said, (and here, you have to remember that it does not matter how old or how young a person is, it is the intelligence that matters) "I came here for a bath, my golden necklace fell into the waters, right there, where I tried to have a dip. The place is too deep for me." The thief thought that he could get away with this necklace too, for it was a little child that stood between him and the jewel.
The human body, constituted by the five elements is the combined product of the five elements.These five elements are derived from the Divine.But man to-day is not aware of the truth about these elements.Man can accomplish many things in this world: he can be a great scholar, a great warrior,A ruler of rulers, a great astronomeror an astronaut on the moon,But can he control his senses and make his mind tranquil and steady?Neither charity, nor yajna, nor thapas, nor wisdom,Nor the practice of ancient Dharma,nor adherence to truth or any disciplineWill be of any avail without self-control.
EMBODIMENTS of the Divine Atma! Water is getting scarcer every day. What is the reason? Because of the decline of morality among men water is getting scarce in the world. For human life morality is the life breath. Morality makes humanness blossom. Because morals have been lost, water is getting scarce. Today people are propagating Vedantha (philosophy) in various ways. This propaganda is exciting...
