What all we eat, drink… everything is but a gift of Sai Baba. Therefore, before taking them, we should pray, “Father, Sainath! This is your gift and nothing else. So, you please accept them first”. Once we receive Baba?s blessings, the food becomes Prasada. This food, sacrificed to God, is very holy.

Baba used to always emphasize on distributing anything, object with every one around us. Hemadpanth, who documented the noble story of Sri

Sai with the latter?s permission, was in the habit of eating channa. One day he was serving the feet of his master. Suddenly some channa have fallen from the fold of hand of his coat. Every one laughed at him.

Baba remarked, “Hemad was habituated to eat channa without any one?s knowledge. He was alone buying and eating. Wasn?t it a bad quality to not share food with others?

Hemadpanth felt guilty and shameful. He replied with an explanation

“I never ate any food alone by not sharing with others. But then, I haven?t eaten channa at all today. Baba!”

Looking straight into Panth?s eyes Baba asked, “what would you do when no one is with you?”

“What do I do? I eat alone” Panth replied instantly.

“Yes … it is right! When no one is around, what could you do? Leave that alone. Do you offer food to me before eating? Aren?t I ever with you?”

Hemadpanth bent his head in shame by realizing the depth of meaning in the words of Baba.

The moral Baba conveyed:

The five sense organs will adhere to physical matters. Lust, anger, desire, avarice… like thoughts must be left to God. We should offer every thing to God before we take it. By thinking of God before enjoying it we get thoughts like “is it a right desire? Should it be given up?”. Thus, if we have any bad qualities, they will be destroyed. We get good personality. Knowledge germinates. With the increasing knowledge our asso

Sri Sainathaya Namah.