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From: saimsg
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Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 10:42 PM
Subject: Thought for the day - 5.2.14
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY as written at Prasanthi Nilayam Today
Meditation is a process that takes place beyond the senses. Consider a
rose plant with branches, leaves, flowers and thorns. Locating a rose plant
with a flower in a garden requires concentration. Once we have concentrated and
identified the flower, the next stage is to pluck it without the thorns. Love
is the flower, lust is the thorn. We have to carefully pluck the flower,
without the thorn. This is contemplation. Having plucked the flower, what do we
do with it? We must offer it to the Lord. Thus, meditation means offering the
flower of love to the Divine. In the rose plant of our body, there is the rose
of pure and sacred love, emitting the fragrance of good qualities. Below the
rose, however, there are thorns in the form of sensual desires. The purpose of
this life and meditation is to separate the rose of selfless Love from the
senses and offer it to the Lord.(Divine Discourse, 'My Dear Students', Vol 2,
Ch 5, Mar 11 1984.)
BABA
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