Thursday, August 30th., 2018
Thought for the Day

30 Aug 2018
Often we find scholarship, fame, fortune and ingratitude in and around us. What lesson can we learn from the tree and the sea to live in love and peace? Bhagawan teaches us today.

Every
bird, animal, tree, mountain and star, each tiny worm, has a lesson for
you, if you have but the will and the thirst to learn. These make the
world a veritable University for you; it is a Gurukul where you
are a pupil from birth to death. For example, the tree can teach you
forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age,
gender, religion, nationality or economic status. It helps with fruit
and shade to even the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The sea rolls
and surges in great joy on a full moon; it only knows the fullness of
happy contentment. The Sun may lift clouds of vapour from it; the Sea
does not whimper. Rain may fill its coffers with the rich riverine
tribute; it does not exult. It teaches you equanimity. Watch the waves
rolling one behind the other towards the shore bringing bits of flotsam
and jetsam, bottles and twigs, to be deposited on land. There is a
constant struggle, a laudable Sadhana, to maintain itself clean - which
you can well adopt.
- Divine Discourse, Jul 26, 1972