Sense of Smell – Soap-ta

You are entering into a garden with full of flowers with a pleasant smell. The pink roses! The white jasmines! The fragrant screw pine! and many more! as you walk long, smell of the wet soil makes the surrounding more attractive.

The gardener requests you to plant a small sapling in a pot. You enjoy keeping the sapling inside the soil in the pot. You feel so happy to see the small saplings you just planted moves gently with the breeze. Try to tighten the soil around to help the plant to rest .

Now your hands are dirty with soil. The soap is kept near hand wash area. Feel it! smell it! it has a perfume which has a nice fragrance. Gently using the soap you wash your hands. The soap and water, removes all the dirts from your hand. Now your hand looks clean with nice smell. Feel the smell!! It makes you refreshing. Soap and water are used to wipe out dirt from our body.

Now think how do we clean our mind if it gets dirty?

The mind gets dirty when negative thoughts get inside. To clean up this dirt the best soap to use is ‘Sai Soap’. By using the name of Sai with water of Devotion, our mind becomes pure and clean. Remember! To clean our body we use soap. To purify the mind, we use the name of Sai. Chant the name of Sathya Sai, Sadhguru ‘Sathya Sai’ Adore the name of ‘Sathya Sai’. When we clean our body and mind we are loved by God.

Slowly Say ‘Sai! Cleanse my mind and fill with Sai Nama’. Feel the mind is clean and pure filled with love.

Now gently open your eyes with smile and love

Activity: The following Questions can be discussed

1. How mind gets dirty ??

2. How can we clean a dirty mind ?

[Source : Silence to Sai-lens – A Handbook for Children, Parents and Teachers by Chithra Narayan & Gayeetree Ramchurn Samboo MSK – A Institute of Sathya Sai Education – Mauritius Publications]