A Happy Atmosphere

 

What kind of atmosphere should we maintain at home and around us? 

A happy atmosphere should prevail in the home at all times for children to grow healthy and intelligently. Long drawn faces are not conducive to healthy growth. Why should you have a sorrowful demeanour? Difficulties do come often, be it anybody. But you should know that they are like passing clouds. Why should you lose cheer at each and every incident? It is only a state of mind. There is nothing that remains permanent in this life. 

Let us think only of joyful moments of the past. Never brood over sorrowful events. Be cheerful in the present, filling the mind always with noble thoughts. Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love, and end the day with love. You should never forget this most important aspect of love. Right from dawn to dusk, you must maintain a cheerful disposition. Take your fill of happiness and make others happy with a virtuous demeanour.

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~

(Divine Discourse - Jan 21, 1988)

The mind that is morose harbours nothing but malice and jealousy. Divinity cannot reside in such unholy minds. - BABA