How did Baba use a real-world example to teach a devotee about the foulness of slander?

Sai Baba, in his unique and practical way, used a striking real-world metaphor to correct a devotee. As recounted in Chapter 19, while returning from Lendi, Baba pointed to a village sow feasting on excrement. He drew a direct parallel, asking the devotee to see the kind of taste that tongue has, picking through filth, just as a slanderer's tongue rages against brothers and kin to satisfy its own desire. Baba's words were so potent that the devotee, remembering his own actions from that morning, was deeply stung in his heart, illustrating how Baba instructs devotees according to the occasion.