BENEFITS OF HOLY READING

BENEFITS OF HOLY READING

 

Baba said, "Read this completely and you will be benefited" – Sri Sai Satcharita, Ch. 27.

 

An old Farmer and son lived on a farm. One day the grandson said, "I try to read the Bhagavad Gita just like you but I don't understand it much. And whatever little I understand, I forget it very soon. What is the use of reading this book?"

 

The old farmer quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and said, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

 

The young boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back home. The farmer asked him to try again and again. But every single time, the water leaked out of the basket before he got back to the house. Finally, he said exhausted, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"

 

"So you think it's useless?" old farmer said, "Look at the basket." The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket to a new clean one, inside and out.

 

"Son, that's what happens when you read a book like the Bhagavad Gita. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it again and again, you will realize the benefit one day."