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There was a man, who once went to

the ocean for a bath; but instead of taking the bath he sat there for hours

together on the sandy beach. Others

enquired of him, “What is the matter ? You have come since early morning, and still

you are sitting without taking bath, gazing towards the ocean? Now the sun has come on the zenith. When will you take bath, my friend ?”

The man replied, “Let the

waves that are coming one after the other stop. Then I shall take bath.”

Are these waves going to stop for

this gentleman? It is his ignorance.

The same phenomenon is applicable to

our life too.

This world is an ocean. The waves of sorrow, difficulties and worries

are going to come one after the other.

There is no end to that. They will continue to come during the whole of

our life — from birth to death. No

favourable time is going to come. Favourable and unfavourable are mere reflections of our mind. If we think unfavourably,

everything is unfavourable for us all the time and

vice versa. The man could not take a

bath for want of a quiet ocean. We shall

also miss the opportunity of ‘namasmaran’

for want of mental peace and internal tranquility.

Adopt the sadhana

of ‘namasmaran’ to obtain mental peace

—just from this very moment Shri Sai will bless

your life!

Dr. Anil Jaiswal,

M. B. B. S.

Nagpur-2

(Source Shri Sai Leela Magazine April

1976)