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Stray Thoughts

  • Writer: davidsmith208
    davidsmith208
  • Jun 26, 2019
  • 1 min read

Sawan Quote: “Once a farmer went to the market to purchase something. The shopkeeper forgot to take any money for the article. Even then, the farmer suggested that the shopkeeper had made money from him! Similarly, a Kashmiri was once sitting in the burning sun and another man suggested that he go sit in the shade. But the Kashmir asked the man what he would pay him to go sit in the shade. Our thinking with regard to the Guru is like that of the farmer and the Kashmiri (cash married). “Why waste your life in stray thoughts; you cannot gain anything. Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji This World is Not our Home Page 19, Sat Sandesh, July 1981 The iphone heard ‘cash married’ for spoken Kashmiri


 
 
 

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