Discipline and loyalty to be learnt!

Recently, we bid adieu with heavy hearts to our living God Sathya Sai Baba! It is indeed a great loss to the spiritual world and to all his followers! But he has left his ideals behind him for us to follow! And the best thing is that his followers there are really setting a great example after his death! Thousands of visitors were coming everyday to have a last look at the dead body of Baba before he is buried at the Hall today!

Everybody who went their to have a last look, witnessed great cooperation from the white dressed with blue scarves NGOs, created by Baba himself to look after his visitors! As we all know Baba never discriminated between his VIP visitors and commoners! In this time of grief many of his followers were sitting there whole day, beside Baba's glass coffin and many had come from faraway places, so they were hungry and tired! But their grief did not make the NGOs weak enough to stop their service!

They were continuously moving with a large water container on their back and glasses in their hands, serving clean water to everyone! You need not even ask for it! Then came bananas in bamboo container, 'jhuri' ! Thats not all, after 5 minute another empty jhuri was passed to drop the banana skin in them! Such is their cleanliness! They even distributed sweets and dry hotchpotch among the visitors! Because they truly believe in Baba's ideals of atithi seva!

This is just one incident! Their are many others to show us that this small town of Puttaparthi can easily go much ahead of any indian metropolitan when it comes to cleanliness and discipline! No reason is reasonable enough to escape discipline!

Sathya Sai Baba

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