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True friends are those who help in uplifting your life by cleansing your ideals
and emotions. Those who drag you into pomp, pedantry, paltry entertainment and
petty pranks are enemies, not friends. True friends cannot be won by social
status, external scintillation or verbal assertions. A friendship knit by
monetary bonds ...is disrupted as soon as you ask the loan to be repaid. So,
when you oblige your friend with a loan, the friendship too is broken at that
very moment. How can friendship be cemented by words or by coins? The feeling
of friendship must activate every nerve, permeate every blood-cell, and purify
every emotional wave; it has no place for the slightest trace of egotism. The
companionship which seeks to exploit or fleece for personal benefit cannot be
elevated into the noble quality of friendship. Perhaps, the only friend who can
pass this rigorous test, is God. - Divine Discourse, 24-May-1973.
Among the nine forms of devotion, the foremost is the cultivation of the sakhya
(friendship) of God.-BABA
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