Thought for the day as written in Prasanthi Nilayam May 13, 2005

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Your child gives you great joy by its play and prattle; but when it

interferes with your work or teases you when you are otherwise

engaged, you get very angry at it. It is a source of joy as well as

grief. There is nothing that can give unmixed joy; even if there is,

when it is lost, it brings about sorrow. This is in the very nature

of things; so try to correct the very source of joy and sorrow - the

mind; control it and train it to see the real nature of the objective

world, which attracts and repels you by turns. That is the real fruit

of spiritual study.

-BABA