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Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam May 17, 2005

 

God is the sole sustainer of human life, its basis, structure and consummation.

Money cannot help man to cultivate godliness and merge in God. Scholarship too

is equally powerless. The Upanishads proclaim that release from the cycle of

birth and death cannot be achieved through action, or progeny, or by the

accumulation of riches. It can be gained only through Thyaga (renunciation). It

is a pity that this warning is not heeded and man is engaged in mere grabbing

and grasping. As a result, he suffers from more and more bonds that get tighter

and tighter. The best means to escape from this fate is to take refuge in the

company of the good and godly, and journey along the path pointed out by them.

-BABA