Sai Inspires - February 13, 2022
Narration
Translated
Are we wearing a jewelled crown or carrying a burden on our head? Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today and shows us the path to live free and happy. Man is ever afflicted with a thirst of a different kind, to drink the poisonous water of sensual pleasure. Each one of you is entitled to a crown after the surrender - the total surrender of the six enemies that threaten you: kama, krodha, lobha, moha, madha and matsarya (lust, anger, greed, delusion, pride and envy). Man wears a crown with these formidable foes still inside him and thus carries on his brow not gems, but stones! The real coronation is that of Vibhishana, performed under the auspices of Rama, a status won through surrender and sacrifice. A tube in the bicycle tyre gets punctured by nails on the track; "I" and "Mine" are two nails that puncture the progress of man. Viveka and Vairagya (discrimination and detachment) are the two aides-de-camp of man. Keep them strong and give them full support, for they help you live unharmed and joyful!
- Divine Discourse Jan 14, 1967.
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Be always in the good company of His devotees. Through this, discrimination and renunciation (viveka and vairagya) will be implanted and increased. - BABA
— Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

