October
4th
Salient Thought
for the Day
Life is a ladder up which we go step by step.
Lines
to Memorize
The good and the pleasant approach each one. The wise examines both and discriminates between them; the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the foolish choose the pleasant through love of bodily pleasure.
~Katha-Upanishad
Lesson
Balance is necessary. You cannot climb a ladder without balance. What does poise, equilibrium, maintaining our center imply? That we are in a balanced, normal state. We should definitely cultivate this. There are certain fundamental principles which underlie everything and life is not complete until we have our grasp on these. Poise and higher aspiration are among them. When life is full of non-essentials, we have no time for the essentials. We cannot lay emphasis on what is superficial without affecting the course of our destiny.
Prayer
O Eternal One, grant me wisdom,
That I may learn to fasten my little life to Your great eternal Life.
Merge my little love in Your unending Love.
Give me higher aspiration, more fervent devotion;
And help me more and more to realize that nothing exists apart from Your Supreme existence.
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