May, Thursday 20th., 2021
Today's Thought for the Day
20 May 2021
How and why must we declutter our lives? Why should we be vigilant in this matter? Bhagawan lovingly points it out to us today.
Reduce
your wants to the minimum; do not yield to temptations of carrying the
radio and listening to all enervating stuff. Examine your room, table,
wardrobe, boxes and find out how many superfluous things you have
accumulated. You acquired them because you saw someone having them and
you felt that unless you too possessed them you will look small in their
company! A foolish desire to be esteemed up-to-date, and to keep up
with fashion, made you gather needless habits and needless articles. Man
can be happy with much less equipment than you think is essential. When
some article is with you for some time, you feel it is indispensable
and you do not know how to live without it! Like the silkworm, you weave
a cocoon for yourself, out of your fancy. Do not allow costly habits to
grow, costly from monetary as well as spiritual point of view. Watch
your likes and dislikes with a vigilant eye and discard anything that
threatens to encumber your path.
- Divine Discourse, Feb 24, 1965.