1.Do not waste time speculating over what would happen in this New Year. If your actions are good, your future is bound to be good. The future of the nation depends on your actions. God is a witness; He neither protects nor punishes you. Each one is responsible for their pleasure or pain. In this New Year, develop new and sacred feelings and make everybody happy. Do not struggle for money; strive for love. Once you develop love, there will be no scope for evil qualities like anger, jealousy, etc. If your thoughts and actions are good, your future will be good. Then the whole country, nay, the whole world will prosper. Pray for the peace and prosperity of the entire world. Peace can be attained only through practice of human values.
2.Only an ardent devotee can understand and experience the bliss of oneness with God. Sugar tastes bitter to a person suffering from malaria. The defect lies in their tongue, not in the sugar. So is the case with a person immersed in worldly desires. If you are immersed in it, you cannot experience the sweetness of Divinity. Have the firm conviction “God is in me, with me, around me, behind me.” When you think on these lines, you become divine. Never entertain the thought that you are separate from God.
3.You may think that all those who know their end is drawing near, will, like King Parikshith, utilise their time in seeking to realise the vision of God. However, such a yearning can arise in the mind only as a consequence of a favourable balance of merit acquired in many lives; it will not arise all of a sudden. Consider the vast difference between what Parikshith was engaged in, when he knew that the allotted span of life is hastening to its finish, and the undertakings the demon king Kamsa was busy with when he knew that his end was in sight! These two attitudes are called Devaand asura, divine and demonic. Only those who are equipped with divine virtues have the eagerness to do good acts, and have good thoughts, faith in God, compassion towards all beings, truth, non-violence, love and contrition for swerving from t he straight path. To them alone, thoughts of God and urges to do sanctifying deeds will emerge during their last days.
4.You are all endowed with unlimited powers. Not a single person is without them! To gain awareness of this power, you must join the company of the holy, strive in spiritual practice (sadhana), and steadfastly practise repetition of the Divine Name and meditation. Of what avail is it, even though you have each item of provision in plenty in your kitchen, when you do not know how to cook them into palatable food? Similarly, when you have in yourself all the faculties needed for your upkeep and progress, but if you discard them lightly and leave them unused, how will you benefit? You must strive to see and understand the Universal Power (shakti), which is the basis of all the multifarious manifestations of name and form in the world.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
2.Only an ardent devotee can understand and experience the bliss of oneness with God. Sugar tastes bitter to a person suffering from malaria. The defect lies in their tongue, not in the sugar. So is the case with a person immersed in worldly desires. If you are immersed in it, you cannot experience the sweetness of Divinity. Have the firm conviction “God is in me, with me, around me, behind me.” When you think on these lines, you become divine. Never entertain the thought that you are separate from God.
3.You may think that all those who know their end is drawing near, will, like King Parikshith, utilise their time in seeking to realise the vision of God. However, such a yearning can arise in the mind only as a consequence of a favourable balance of merit acquired in many lives; it will not arise all of a sudden. Consider the vast difference between what Parikshith was engaged in, when he knew that the allotted span of life is hastening to its finish, and the undertakings the demon king Kamsa was busy with when he knew that his end was in sight! These two attitudes are called Devaand asura, divine and demonic. Only those who are equipped with divine virtues have the eagerness to do good acts, and have good thoughts, faith in God, compassion towards all beings, truth, non-violence, love and contrition for swerving from t he straight path. To them alone, thoughts of God and urges to do sanctifying deeds will emerge during their last days.
4.You are all endowed with unlimited powers. Not a single person is without them! To gain awareness of this power, you must join the company of the holy, strive in spiritual practice (sadhana), and steadfastly practise repetition of the Divine Name and meditation. Of what avail is it, even though you have each item of provision in plenty in your kitchen, when you do not know how to cook them into palatable food? Similarly, when you have in yourself all the faculties needed for your upkeep and progress, but if you discard them lightly and leave them unused, how will you benefit? You must strive to see and understand the Universal Power (shakti), which is the basis of all the multifarious manifestations of name and form in the world.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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