Peace is the best treasure without which power, authority, fame, fortune are all dry and burdensome. Tyagaraja has sung that there can be no happiness, without inner peace. To earn this peace and to be unshakably established in it, man must develop Abhyasa (steady practice) and Vairagyam (detachment). Vairagyam does not imply renunciation of family ties and fleeing into the loneliness of the jungle. It means our giving up of the feeling that things are permanent and capable of yielding supreme joy. The mind plays tricks with man and believes that some things are good and some bad, some eternal and some transitory. You might have a plateful of nice eatables before you and they might appear to be delicious and fine; but, if the cook announces that a lizard had fallen into the cooker when it was on fire and has been boiled alive, all the fascination for the food disappears in a trice! There is no object without fault or failing; there is no joy that is unmixed with pain; there is no act that is not tainted with egotism. So be warned and develop the detachment which will save you from grief.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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