Sai message for the day

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Swami! When we get wisdom based on our practical knowledge,

discrimination and determination, will it stay with us permanently or

is there any possibility of our losing it by chance leading us back

to ignorance again?

 

That is impossible. Actually, you can't call it wisdom at all, if it

is lost. You can't consider a person a man of wisdom if he returns to

the same old state of ajnana, ignorance.

 

In fact, jnana, wisdom, neither comes nor goes. You are the

embodiment of Divyajnana, divine wisdom. Your own worldly

attachments, sensual pleasures, and bodily identification obscure

this awareness or wisdom. Once you realise it; you will never lose

the state of awareness.

 

A simple example, you curdle milk and churn it to get butter. The

butter, a product of milk, will never get mixed in the milk once

again, will it? So also, the butter of wisdom cannot mix in the milk

of ignorance, once it is realised. Similarly, a jnana, though he

lives in the midst of ignorant people, will never lose his jnana.

Ajnana, Ignorance will never come again. Wisdom, once it dawns on

you, will never depart from you.