You may master a billion fields of study, but if you have not cultivated the attitude of detachment, that mastery is of no consequence. Sharing with others and serving others selflessly with love is the main rule (sutra) of spiritual knowledge (vidya) - that is its genuine expression. Just as trees don’t eat their fruits but offer them to be eaten by others in an attitude of detachment; just as rivers, without drinking the waters they carry, quench the thirst and cool the heat from which others suffer; just as cows offer their milk, produced primarily for their calves, to be shared by others in a spirit of generosity born of renunciation (tyaga); so too, those who have acquired spiritual knowledge should offer it to others prompted by the motive of service and without consideration of selfish interests. Only thus can anyone justify their status as noble (sajjana).
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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