Sai Inspires Apr 14, 2022 With every passing year, what must | Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Sai Inspires Apr 14, 2022

With every passing year, what must we strive to achieve? On Tamil New Year's Day, Bhagawan lovingly inspires us.

Embodiments of Love! You have been celebrating the New Year Day, year after year. But are you cultivating new and sacred qualities? No. You are unable to give up bad qualities. With each New Year, new and noble qualities should be cultivated. Desires have to be controlled. The lesser the desires, the lesser your sorrows. Excessive desires lead to the ruination of willpower (ichcha shakti). The decline in willpower leads to the loss of power of action (kriya shakti). Develop unity of ichcha sakthi, kriya sakthi, and jnana shakti (power of wisdom). Willpower will increase only when desires are reduced. Happiness is eluding man due to limitless desires. Excessive desires spoil health and cause depression in the mind. Reducing desires amounts to reducing the burden on the mind. Less luggage, more comfort makes travel a pleasure. Life is a long journey. How can you enjoy the journey if you are carrying heavy luggage? Go on reducing your luggage.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 14, 1999.