Below are some excerpts taken from the innumerable talks given by Prof.Anil Kumar and cane be found at www.saiwisdom.com
Swami asked somebody,Do you know how to live a long life? Do you know the secret of a long life? "Swami, I dont know. Swami said " Its very easy. " What is it, Swami? Swami said " Only two things are needed". What are they? Bhagawan said, " One is sacrifice and the other is love or prema. Sacrifice and love will give you long life. Thyaga or sacrifice is the medicine, while love is the diet. If we take the medicine without following the diet, the disease will never be cured. If we follow the diet without taking the medicine, we are nearer to the grave. Unless we have the diet and the medicine together, the disease cannot be cured. So the medicine of sacrifice and the diet of love ” both are necessary to live a long life. Swami gave an example from the United States Rockefeller. Today, in the United States there is the Rockefeller Foundation. This charity is working all over the United States. How did this come about? Rockefeller was fabulously rich -- very, very rich. He had no time to think of anything other than making money. He reached the stage where he forgot the amount of money he had because he was so busy. But Rockefeller fell sick at the age of about 48. And the doctors said, “Look here, you are not going to survive for more than eight or ten months. You are not going to live much longer. Who said this? His doctors in the United States spoke this. Doctors in the U.S. are very, very responsible, to the best of my knowledge, because they will be sued in the courts of law if anything goes wrong. Then they would have to pay money throughout their lifetime, oh yes -- so they have to be very responsible. So those doctors said," You won't live very long". So Rockefeller started distributing his money to everybody. Educational institutions, medical institutions and many others all over the United States, with the result that he lived for almost 90 years. A person, who should have left this planet earth 40 years earlier, got an extension of his life. How is that possible? Because of his sacrifice. What is required today is for our hearts, which are hard like stone, to melt. Even stones wither and become ordinary sand with continuous exposure to rain and heat. Similarly, our hearts of stone should melt, seeing people's misery, so we will be prepared to sacrifice. Sai Ram --
