Thought for the Day

For treading the path of devotion, one needs no scholarship, nor wealth nor riches, nor ascetic rigours. Tell Me, what was the lineage of Valmiki, the wealth of Kuchela, the scholarship of Sabari, the age of Prahlada, the status of Gajaraja, and the attainments of Vidura? Pure Love (Prema) — that was all they had, and that was all they needed. The grace of the Lord is as the ocean - vast and limitless. By your spiritual disciplines, your repetition of a name of God, meditation, and systematic cultivation of virtue, this grace is converted into clouds of truth. This cloud rains on humanity as showers of prema, which collect and flow as the flood of bliss (ananda) back again into the ocean of the Lord’s grace. When prema embraces humanity, we call it compassion, the quality not of pity but of sympathy — sympathy that makes one happy when others are happy and miserable when others are unhappy. 

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba