THE REAL GROWTH

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THE REAL GROWTH

Baba said, "The best way to receive, is to give" in Sri Sai Satcharitra Ch. XXXV.

There was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in

the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter

interviewed him and leaned something interesting about how he grew it?

The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his

neighbours. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your

neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?"

the reporter asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the

ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior

corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn, I must

help my neighbours grow good corn." He is very much aware of the connectedness

of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour’s corn also improves.

So it is in other dimensions. Those who choose to be at peace must help their

neighbours to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to

live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And

those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the

welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our

neighbours grow good corn.

(Courtesy: East and West Series, March 2004)

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