As we wind down the clock for 2024 and look ahead, what should we pray for? Bhagawan endearingly guides us today.
"Embodiments of love! Many pray to God all over the world. They pray for the realisation of worldly desires of one kind or another. This is not the right kind of prayer. You should pray to God for the grace of His love. That love is everlasting. It is infinite.
God has another attribute. He is the embodiment of bliss. He is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being-Awareness-Bliss). Pray to God to confer that bliss on you. God's bliss is boundless and everlasting. All mundane pleasures are transient and ephemeral. Only he is a true devotee who prays to God for His love and bliss. One who prays for other trivial things is no devotee at all.
Worldly benefits come and go. They are not the things for which you should pray. Seek what is eternal. Pray for God's love and bliss. Seek to realise your Divinity. Then you will experience the Divine in the entire cosmos. You will experience the bliss that fills the universe.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
(Divine Discourse - 7.4.1997)
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