Thought on ~ 1st January 2009

by **Sarveswara** Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:42 am

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Truly speaking, nothing new has happened today. Do not wait for the celebration of something new in Time until the minutes, the hours, the days, the months add up to a year. Celebrate the immediately succeeding second by an honest effort to get lasting joy. There is no touch of meanness in trying to get joy or Ananda. It is only the means that make it unworthy and futile. As a matter of fact, it is to fill himself with Ananda that man has come to this world, equipped with speech, mind, intelligence and conscience. Only man has the chance and the capacity among all living beings. But man has forgotten his goal and is wandering in the wilderness of trivial pleasures.

- Baba

Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam today
1st January 2009 - New Year's Day