How and where should we look for mental peace? Bhagawan explains clearly for us today.

Ambition to earn fame in the world, to gain some position of authority over fellow men, to lead a luxurious life — this can never ensure shanti (mental peace). Shanti is the result of quite different attainments. Wealth cannot command it, nor authority commandeer it! It must be won through the hard way - meditation, namasmarana, and the nine steps to the presence of the Almighty. It must be won on the earth, to which man rightfully belongs; and, not on any other heavenly realm towards which he may dare navigate. You multiply grief by recollecting the past and picturing a vivid, unpleasant future. You fill the present moment with dread, recapitulating the past and reflecting on coming events! The needle runs over the gramophone record and causes the music to play. The record is inert matter. When the mind (the needle) concerns itself with nature and contacts nature, the song of joy-grief is heard. The fault lies not in nature, nor in the mind but in the contact! Keep aloof, be detached — then, there is no reaction at all. That is the path to earn mental peace.