Absence of trust - Sai Baba

Kali Yuga is the age of discord. The world is faced with such dangers from man-made calamities. One of these is the thinning of the ozone layer above the Earth. As a result, there is the threat of fire disasters. There is discord everywhere - between husband and wife, between preceptor and pupil, and in every other relationship. What is the reason for this discord? The absence of mutual trust. No one trusts another. As a result, hatred and bitterness are growing in the social, ethical, political, economic and every other field. There is discord even in the scientific field. The lack of trust has blinded people towards each other. People have belief in things which should not be believed, but do not believe that which they ought to believe.

Now most worship and rituals are for the better comfort and more luxurious consumption of the worshipper him/herself. Devotion has been vulgarized into a business deal. I shall give you so much, provided you give me so much in return. If that shrine promises more, this shrine is given up; if even there, you do not get quick returns, somewhere else, some other God might be more profitable. That is the way in which worldly people wander about in their panicky rounds. Today's aspirants treat the heart as a musical chair. They go on from one "Swami" to another and shift from one kind of sadhana to another. Of what avail is this kind of merry-go-round?

-Sai Baba