Reduce Your Wants

[Guest guest]

Reduce Your Wants

 

Constantly discriminate between the Preya-Marga and the Sreya-Marga,

the Pleasant Path and the Good Path. You will have to do this again

and again every time the mind tempts you to follow the ways of the

world, to imitate others. This desire to imitate others is

exceedingly powerful and overpowers even a wise man. Worry not about

finding money to buy a scooter (when you have no need for a scooter)

just because all your friends come on scooters. Do not bother about

how to send your son to the States only because your neighbors have

sent their kids to California and Cambridge. Keep away from temptations of all

sorts. Do not walk into places of temptation and then struggle to resist

temptation. It will tax your will unnecessarily. Even if you succeed in

resisting the temptation, it may leave a craving in the mind. Craving induces

restlessness.

 

Do not multiply your wants and then feel like a beggar. Reduce your

wants and feel like a king. Why should you enter a cloth shop and

see many varieties presented before your eyes when you have enough

clothing at home? Either you will buy unnecessary things. Or feel

sad, " Oh, I don't have this. Ah, how I wish I could buy that! " Peace

of mind and material greed are incompatibles. They do not go

together. Make your choice.

 

Reduce your wants to the barest minimum consistent with your general

external activities. The fewer the wants and possessions the greater

the peace of mind. Possession gives pain. The point is so obvious

that it needs no explanation. Hire a taxi rather than own a car.

Live in a rented flat rather than possess your own house.

 

Most of us suffer, not for want of right knowledge or wisdom, but

for want of exercise of that wisdom in our daily life. If you want

peace of mind, at once stop doing all those things which you know

you should not do. And, equally important, start doing all those

things which you know you should do. This will set you on the right

track, and when you are on the right track, God's Grace will flow

into your life and make it more and more sublime. You will gain

peace of mind and radiate peace all around you. Faith has to be

exercised. Love has to be exercised. Selflessness has to be

exercised. Charity has to be practiced. Dispassion has to be

practiced. Devotion has to be cultivated. These qualities, these

virtues do not arise, in you over night. They have to be assiduously

cultivated before they can become a natural, a habitual, an integral

part of your being.

 

Baba Said

 

" Baba liked very much those persons, who took real interests in

spiritual matters and He removed all their difficulties and made

them happy.

 

Baba is every where just feel him and keep on saying `Om Sai Ram' to whom so

ever you meet.

 

OM SAI SRI SAI JAI JAI SAI!!! Let us pray at the lotus feet of Bhagwan Baba who

is the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and

increase our devotion towards him

 

Jai Sai Ram