Small Teachings

In a pond, along with the lotus flowers that bloom, there are blood sucking leeches that thrive. Like the lotus cannot survive without water, human life cannot survive without love. Don’t let the leeches of worry breed in your heart of love. Do not allow wicked thoughts to stick to you.

Sanathana Sarathi, May 1998, p. 124

It is desire which haunts man that is responsible for making one item a boon or a bane. It is the mind that decides the desire and directs it. A sharp knife can be used for slicing food or for stabbing another. In the hands of a surgeon it can save a life rather than destroy one. The mind can liberate you from bondage or bind you more tightly with the objective world.

Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. 12, . 202