Life 27 (Oct 16 - Apr 17)

Re: Life 27 (Oct 16 - Apr 17)

Postby winston » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:21 am

How should fesivals be celebrated ?

On New Year's day or other festivals, people get up early, have a sacred bath and put on new clothes. They are interested only in external cleanliness and are not concerned about purifying their hearts, which are tainted with evil thoughts and feelings.

It is rather easy to have external cleanliness and to wear new clothes but that is not the purpose of celebrating festivals.

True celebration of festivals lies in giving up evil qualities and purifying one’s heart.

Human heart in its pristine state is highly sacred and human birth is difficult to attain. Having attained such a precious life, people are not making any effort to live like a true human being.

Today, people have become a bundle of desires. All time and effort is spent in fulfilling desires. One should realise that only annihilation of desires will lead to ultimate bliss. True happiness lies in the state of desirelessness.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 13, 2002.

The year becomes new and the day becomes holy, when you sanctify it by spiritual discipline, not otherwise.

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