Thought for the Day

The sublime significance of divine wisdom can be grasped by one or communicated to another only when the pure mind sheds its revealing light. Inside a room kept scrupulously clean, no snake, scorpion or poison-bearing insect will enter - they will be present only in dark and dirty places. Similarly sacred wisdom cannot enter dark and dirty hearts. Instead, poisonous breeds like anger will find those hearts to be congenial resorts. You cannot wash a lump of coal with soap and water. Nor will washing it in milk help. The only way is to put it in fire. Fire will turn coal into a heap of white ash. Similarly, only gaining awareness of the Atma (Atmajnana) — in other words, knowledge of Brahman (Brahma-vidya) — will destroy the darkness of ignorance and the dirt of desire. Darkness can be ended only with the help of light. Darkness cannot be overwhelmed by attacking it with more darkness. Spiritual wisdom provides the inner illumination needed to destroy the inner darkness.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba