THOUGHT FOR THE DAY as written at Prasanthi Nilayam Today
The scriptures point out the means of securing everlasting joy, but
people are drawn to earn shadowy joys and fleeting pleasures that are fraught
with evil and harm. They are trying to draw water with a pot full of holes. The
senses leak out the joy they draw. The senses are wild untutored servants who
dictate terms to their master - the mind. The mind has to be brought under your
grip. Then the servants will fawn at your feet. The mind is the monarch; the
senses are the soldiers; the soldiers are now ruling the king, because he lends
his ears to them and not the intellect, who is the Prime Minister. Let your
intellect take charge. The light of the Sun (your Soul) is obstructed by the
thick clouds of desire for sense objects and objective pleasure. Let the strong
wind of repentance and resolution scatter the clouds, so that the Aatma may
shine forth brilliantly.
BABA
