Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Sept. 4, 2005

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Which is the happiest day in one's life? All are happy days to a

person of Jnana (true knowledge). Happiness is a conscious internal

experience which is an effect of the extinction of all mental and

physical desires. The lesser the desires, the greater is the

happiness. Therefore, perfect happiness consists in the merger of all

desires in the Absolute Being. The mind has no independent identity of

its own. It is a conglomeration of the desires that sprout from the

impulses. A cloth is essentially a bundle of threads. Threads are

basically spun from cotton. Similarly, desires arise from basic

impulses, and the mind is constituted of these desires. Just as a

piece of cloth disintegrates if threads in it are pulled apart, the

mind too can be destroyed by the eradication of desires.

 

-SAI BABA