NOT TO INDULGE IN SLANDER-MONGERING NOR IN DISCUSSING OTHERS’ AFFAIRS UNNECESSARILY

Sai Baba advised His devotees not to indulge in scandal or slander of others.

For this, He had His own methods of correcting the defaulters.

He, being omniscient, knew, when and where the devotees had committed the fault, and so, he could correct them effectively by taunting them also.

In Ch. 19, Sai Baba pointed out to such a defaulter, a pig that was eating filth near a fence and said to him, “Behold how with what relish it is gorging dung. Your conduct is similar. You go on reviling own brethren to your heart’s content.”

Needless to say that the devotee was ashamed and took the lesson to his heart forever.

Similarly,

in Ch. 21, having known that a pleader from Pandharpur, had unnecessarily taken part in a discussion in the bar room regarding the sub-judge Noolkar’s coming and staying at Shirdi for cure of his ill-health, Sai Baba, when the pleader himself arrived at Shirdi, started saying,

“How cunning people are! They fall at the feet, offer Dakshina, but inwardly give abuses behind the back. Is not this wonderful?”

The pleader understood that the remark was aimed at himself and being convinced, later said to Kakasaheb Dixit,

“This is not a rebuke to me, but a favour and advice, that I should not indulge in any scandal or slander of others and not to interfere unnecessarily in others’ affairs.”

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