Get Up, Arise, Awake!

"If only men knew the path to permanent joy and peace,

they would not wander distracted among the bylanes of sensual pleasure.

Just as the joy felt in dreams disappears when you wake up,

the joy felt in the waking stage disappears when you awake

to higher awareness (jnana).

So the Upanishads say, "Get Up, Arise, Awake!"

Time is fleeting fast.

While the moment is available, put it to the best of uses:

the awareness of the Divine in all.

When you die, you must die, not like a tree,a beast, or a worm,

but like a man who realizes himself to be Divine (Madhava).

That is the proper consummation of all the years you

spend in human form."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(Voice of the Avatar. Vol.1)