Can you recount the story from Chapter 19 where Baba uses a pig to teach a lesson about slander?

📖 Chapter 19

Chapter 19 narrates a powerful incident where Baba teaches a lesson about the vileness of slander. A devotee had been slandering others, and Baba, being omniscient, decided to instruct him. As Baba was returning from Lendi with a group, he saw this devotee. At that moment, Baba pointed to a village sow that was feasting on excrement by a fence. He then remarked on the foul taste of its tongue and directly compared it to the tongue of one who "rages against brothers and kin and satisfies its own desire." The devotee, remembering his own slanderous actions from that morning, was deeply stung in his heart by Baba's words. This indirect but sharp lesson showed him the impurity of his conduct and the way he was wasting his precious human birth.


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