As students at school and college, and also as students of life, what should we do to regain our original purity? Bhagawan lovingly gives the quickest solution with a memorable example.
Time is infinitely precious. You should not waste even one moment of it.
In a man’s life, the period as a student is most valuable and sacred. You should make the best use of it. Milk mixed with water cannot get back its original purity, however much you may try to separate it. But once you have converted the milk into butter, it will not be affected by association with water. It will float above the water and maintain its distinctive quality.
Likewise, Samsara (worldly attachment) is like water. The mind of man is like milk. When the pure, sacred, uncontaminated mind is mixed with the water of worldly desires, it is difficult to recover the original purity.
However, if in this sacred period of study, you derive from your unspoilt mind, the butter of knowledge, wisdom and right conduct, you will be able to remain unpolluted by the attractions of the world even when you are in it.
– Divine Discourse, Jun 16, 1983.
Elders should sow the seeds of human values in the tender hearts of the children. They will grow into gigantic trees and give shelter to many in future! – BABA
