When S'rî Râma decided to end His Avatâra career and walked into the flooded Sarayu river, a dog too followed the concourse. When asked why it had attached itself to the entourage, it said: "I desire to enter heaven with you all. I was, in my previous life, a full-fledged yogi; but I slipped and fell from the straight path of self-control, I became the slave of conceit; I expounded the Vedas as my fancy dictated, in strange but attractive ways. So, I have now become this animal that takes delight in barking, biting and baying. The persons who encouraged me then by praise, are now the fleas and flies that crowd on my skin and pester me. Help me Lord to escape from this disgrace; I have worked out my karma; I have lived out my sentence."
That is the consequence of irreverence shown to the Vedas; study them reverentially and with a view to practise what they teach. Desisting from practice is itself irreverence.
(From the Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
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