God-Given Riches for Good Deeds.

Baba narrated a short story to tell us the truth that human birth is caused by merits and sins of our past lives. Some villagers collected donations for renovating a Shiva temple and gave the amount to a rich man of the village. Utterly miserly, he spent a little amount to renovate the temple and pocketed the rest. Some more donations were collected and handed over, but the rich miser once again repeated the act. He even showed his devout wife's gold ornaments as bought for a low price, but utilized them for personal needs instead of temple use. He reaped the sin and died, struck by a fatal thunder-bolt. He took re-birth in a Brahmin family as Veerbhadrappa. To reap her sins, his wife who died along with him, once again became his wife.

The woman Dubaki was born as a man by name Chenbassappa in a temple attendent's family. Veerbhadrappa, who embezzled the funds meant for the temple took re-birth as a snake and Chenbassappa, who got cheated of his mortgaged land by Veerbhadrappa, was born as a frog. Baba who promised to save the life of Chenbassappa, allowed the Karmic cycle work out itself, appeared at the right time and commanded the snake-born Veerbhadrappa not to swallow Chenbassappa, the frog-born. The moral of the story is: one has to reap what one sows and the God-gifted wealth must be used for good causes.

"Bow to Shri Sai and Peace Be to all"   

|ॐ| Om Sai Ram |ॐ|