Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Mar 2nd, 2006

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The search for God in the external is futile. When the Divine is

omnipresent, it is foolish for man to search for God in some particular

place. Hence the goal of man is the realization of his divinity. This

realization must come through the Vedantic process of exclusion "Nethi,

nethi" ("not this, not this"). One must assert "I am not the body. I am

not the intellect. I am not the Will. I am not the Antahkarana, the

inner instrument. All these are merely my instruments". Man should

realize: "I am the Master of all of them." When by this process of

elimination man realizes his true Self, he is freed from sorrow.

-SAI BABA