Thought for the Day

Whatever inconveniences one may encounter, one must try to carry on spiritual practices without any break or modification in the disciplines. Taking all worldly losses, sufferings, and worries as merely temporal and transitory, and realising that all this repetition of the name and meditation is only to overcome such grief, the spiritual aspirant should keep the two things separate, without mixing up the two. The aspirant must understand that loss, suffering, and worry are external, belonging to this world, and that repetition of the name and meditation are internal, belonging to the realm of the love for the Lord. This is called chaste (pathivratha) devotion. At the specified time, at least recall to mind the meditation and repetition of the name done at the same time in the past, even if you are in a railway train, a bus, or some such inconvenient surrounding. In this way, accumulating spiritual wealth, one can surely become the master, and attain the Atma.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba