88. Company of saint

If fa drop of sugarcane juice falls on the ground then that soil becomes sweet, if salty water falls in the ground, soil becomes salty. That soil becomes sour by a drop of lemon juice, it becomes chilli by a drop of chilli juice and it becomes astringent by a drop of gooseberry juice. Or hand becomes black by holding coal in the fist, it becomes fragrant by holding sandal in the fist, it becomes white by holding chalk or lime, it becomes dirty by blood and it becomes smelly by holding onion or garlic in the fist. Clothes become fragrant, foul-smelling, dirty and clean by perfume, garlic, blood and soap. It proves that the kind of company or fellowship a man gets, he becomes like that. It is said by Rahim-

When the rain drop of some swati nakshatra falls on three different objects-on (Kadali) plankin leaf it turns into camphor, in the mouth of snake it turns into poison and in the mouth of an oyster, it turns into a pearl