Life is a campaign against foes, a battle with obstacles, temptations, hardships, and hesitations. These foes are within man and so the battle must be incessant and perpetual. Like the virus that thrives in the bloodstream, vices of lust, greed, hate, malice, pride and envy sap the energy and faith of man and reduce him to untimely fall. Ravana had scholarship, strength, wealth, power, authority, and grace of God. But the virus of lust and pride which lodged in his mind brought about his destruction despite all his attainments! He could not dwell in peace and joy for a moment after the virus started work. Virtue is strength, vice is weakness. Man differs from man in this struggle against inner foes. Each gets the result that his Sadhana deserves, that his acts in this and previous births deserve! Life is not a mathematical formula, where 2 + 2 always equals 4. To some, it may be 3, to some, 5. It depends on how each values the 2. Moreover, in the spiritual path, each one must move forward from where one already is according to one’s own pace, and the light of the lamp which each one holds in one’s hand.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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