Thieves who rob man of valuable treasures, like peace and contentment, equipoise and courage, are being honoured as masters! Real masters who ensure peace and happiness are treated with irreverence and disgust! Thieves - lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate - are honoured as welcome guests and the real well-wishers like tranquillity and humility are shown the door! You desire to drink a sweet drink, but instead of sugar, you drop salt into the cup, imagining salt to be sugar. Isn’t this the state of man, today? He craves for peace, but does not know how to attain it! The means he adopts, will not lead him to the anticipated end! A large percentage of people who come to Me ask for moksha (liberation) from the bondage of grief and joy, birth and death. But, when I offer to bless them with the consummation of their wish, they do not come forward; they would rather have it, ten years or five years later. So, all the thirst and craving are just a pose; it is a fashionable slogan, and nothing more. Man must be sincere; his word must be in conformity with his feelings, and his action must be in conformity with his word. Resolve on this practice, at least from today.

 Thieves who rob man of valuable treasures, like peace and contentment, equipoise and courage, are being honoured as masters! Real masters who ensure peace and happiness are treated with irreverence and disgust! Thieves - lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate - are honoured as welcome guests and the real well-wishers like tranquillity and humility are shown the door! You desire to drink a sweet drink, but instead of sugar, you drop salt into the cup, imagining salt to be sugar. Isn’t this the state of man, today? He craves for peace, but does not know how to attain it! The means he adopts, will not lead him to the anticipated end! A large percentage of people who come to Me ask for moksha (liberation) from the bondage of grief and joy, birth and death. But, when I offer to bless them with the consummation of their wish, they do not come forward; they would rather have it, ten years or five years later. So, all the thirst and craving are just a pose; it is a fashionable slogan, and nothing more. Man must be sincere; his word must be in conformity with his feelings, and his action must be in conformity with his word. Resolve on this practice, at least from today.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba