"There is an inevitable pair of accessories in vanity bags of ladies and in the pockets of gentlemen: mirror and a comb. You dread that your charm is endangered when your hair is in slight disarray, or when your face reveals patches of powder; so, you try to correct the impression immediately! While you are so concerned about this fast-deteriorating personal charm, how much more concerned should you really be about the dust of envy and hate, and patches of conceit and malice, that desecrate your mind and hearts? Have a mirror and comb for this purpose too! Have the mirror of devotion (Bhakti), to judge whether they are clean, bright and smart. Have also the comb of Jnana or wisdom, the wisdom earned by discrimination that straightens problems, resolves knots, and smoothens tangles to control and channelize feelings and emotions that are scattered wildly in all directions."
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Divine Discourse - 26.6.1969)
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