Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - July 23, 2005

[Guest guest]

Life is the chance afforded to man to recover the peace and the joy

that he had lost when he was last here. If he recovers them now, he

need not come again. But, he loses them through ignorance of their

value and the means of retaining them. If only he would remain in the

consciousness of Shivoham (the belief that "I am Shiva"), "I am

immortal; I am the source and spring of Bliss", he would be supremely

contented. But, instead of this correct evaluation of himself, this

recognition of his innate reality, man goes about weeping at his

helplessness, inadequacies, poverty and evanescence. This is the

tragic fate from which man has to be rescued.

 

-SAI BABA