So Says Sai

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So Says Sai

 

 

 

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In ancient days various duties were prescribed for people to regulate their living on the right lines. For instance on festive occasions, the place in front of every house was strewn artistically with rice flour, which was a kind of offering to the birds, ants and other insects. By this means the lesser beings in creation were propitiated.

 

Unfortunately this ennobling custom has either gone out of vogue or is surviving as a meaningless ritual by the use of white powder instead of rice flour. In the olden days people used to take rice flour or sugar and scatter it over ant hills or other places for consumption by insects.

 

What was once a sacred obligation to other living beings in creation is now treated as a superstition. It is not realized that by this type of bhutha yagna, a considerable merit was earned and many evil consequences of one's actions were averted.

 

 

 

Source: Sathya Sai Speaks Vol. XVII. P. 76.