THOUGHT FOR THE DAY as written at Prasanthi Nilayam Today
The Lord does not ask you for penance or asceticism. He only wants that
your mind be fixed on Him. Devote and dedicate your mind to God. If you plead
that you have not the strength of mind to do this, ask yourself, where from
comes the strength to dedicate yourself as you do now to hollow ideals and vain
fantasies of family, fortune and fame? Can you not use this strength for that
supreme dedication? People easily offer their all to poisonous objective
pleasures, but squirm and protest when the call is made to dedicate their
thoughts, feelings and acts to the Almighty! Those who are prompted by genuine
desire for the fruit must overcome all obstacles and temptations, doubts and
disappointments, and dwell on the thoughts of the Lord. Then the Lord will
confer on you the blessing of Union.
BABA
