Thought for the Day

All the variety in taste, colour, smell of the multiform food items, when considered fairly and squarely, are mere drugs to cure the illness of hunger; all the drinks that man has invented are but medications to alleviate the disease of thirst. Most people today suffer from an ailment of the senses and they try the quack remedies of recreation, pleasures, picnics, banquets, dances only to find that their fever has not subsided. This illness will subside only when the invisible virus is rendered ineffective and that will happen only when the rays of jnaana (wisdom) fall upon it. A true doctor interested in curing you of all illness, will advise what is hitha (beneficial) for you to restore your health, instead of that which is priya (pleasant); your Guru is such a doctor. Obey Him even when His prescription is unpalatable, for your fever can be cured only by Him. Prefer the beneficial to the pleasant, for the pleasant might lead you down the sliding path into the bottomless pit. 

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba