How does Swami want us to deal with life and our duties? Bhagawan inspires and arms us with His words of wisdom today.

Sai directs you to recognise the atma as your closest kin, closer than the members of your family, your blood relations and your dearest descendants. When this is done, you will never stray from the path of right, which alone can maintain that kinship. Familial attachment operates even against the performance of one’s legitimate duties. But, attachment to the Divine fills that duty with a new dedication which ensures both joy and success. It activates man as nothing else can: it confers on him during the process of doing his duty the highest wisdom. Hence the advice: Do not enter the prakriti (objective world) in the hope of realising the Atma; enter the objective world, after becoming aware of the Atma; for then you see Nature in a new light, and your very life becomes a long festival of love. There are many who use their scholarship and intelligence, even Vedic scholarship, for dreary debate and competitive contests. They are enamoured of their petty triumphs. They declare that society is an arena for winning such triumphs. But, Sai calls on you to seek and strengthen another type of society, where there is no room for such trivial desires.