Shun bad company. Seek good company. Only then will your life be redeemed. Very often I remind the students that by joining bad company, you become slaves. You should be masters, not slaves. You all know what happened to Kaikeyi on listening to the words of Manthara. No one loved Rama more than Kaikeyi. But when her intelligence was clouded, she believed the words of the wicked Manthara. To one with perverted intellect, truth appears as untruth and vice versa. Due to the effect of bad company, the mind gets polluted. So, right from the tender age, “Tyaja durjana samsargam, bhaja sadhu samagamam, kuru punyamahoratram, smara nithyamanithyatham” (run away from bad company, join good company, undertake righteous actions day and night, and enquire into that which is permanent and that which is ephemeral). One should not develop unnecessary contacts. Your interaction with others should be limited to basic courtesies like, “Hello, how are you?”
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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