Satyopanisad

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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?

 

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.