THOUGHT FOR THE DAY as written at Prasanthi Nilayam Today
Some are born healthy and some others, unhealthy. Some lead prosperous,
carefree lives, while others toil throughout their lives in dire poverty.
Certainly, it can be argued that there are signs enough of the partiality that
the Creation or Creator reveals. Such inference may even appear justified from
the ordinary man's point of view. The pure stream of spiritual culture declares
that this is not true at all! God is not the cause of either misery or joy, of
good fortune or bad! Then, who brings about the evil and the good? The answer
is-we ourselves! Rain falls equally on ploughed land and on unploughed. Only
the ploughed land derives benefit therefrom! The clouds are not to blame. The
fault lies in the ignorant idler who lets his land lie fallow. The grace of God
is ever at hand. It has no 'more or less,' no ups or downs. We draw upon it,
more or less, or let it go by, or use it for our good.
- BABA
BABA
