Then in a lighter vein, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba asked that boy, “Do you have friends?”
That boy answered, “Swami, I have a few friends.”
“Few friends? No, no!”
He asked another boy, “How many friends have you?” Before that boy gave his reply, Swami said, “You have many friends, I know.”
Then He said. “Who is your true friend?”
They were just thinking.
Bhagavan said, “God is your true friend. God is your only friend.”
Then Swami gave a beautiful definition to this word ‘friend’. In English we say, “A friend in need is a friend indeed. “
That’s what Bhagavan said. “Who is a true friend? The one who will always be in your company, who will never betray you, who will never cheat you, who will never give you up in times of difficulties, in times of sickness, in times of danger -- He’s only your true fried. Do you have any friend on earth like that, who will never leave you, who will be with you always, supporting you in times of difficulties and sickness? He’s God. So treat God as your true friend. He’ll be always with you.”
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