Compare Your Performance
As we flip the calendar, we need to keep flipping. our mind as well. Often, our diaries are full with memories. See that you don't fill your future dates with past events.
Allow the space for creativity to unlearn from the pat, and move on. In the past year, how many days were you in sanyas? How many days were you struggling, being caught in the maya?
Turn back and remember the whole year. Do not run away from anything. Do not reject anything. Do not go away from anything. At the same time, let your attention be on the self. This is a delicate balance.
That balance is yoga. A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment. How rich are you? If you celebrate every moment, you are the Lord of Creation.
Review the year while you celebrate. This is your homework. Compare your performance in the year before last and smile. This year is fortunate because you are living at this time. When you are living for the sake of the world, the world is fortunate.
Let time celebrate your presence. You keep smiling as ever. When you let time celebrate you, you are witness amid celebration. The heart always longs for the old, the mind for the new. Life is a combination of both.
Let the New Year bring into our life ancient wisdom and modernity, as life is incomplete without either of them. Don't feel shy to speak about human and spiritual values. The time has come now to call the Whole world. Be ever new, happy you.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
25 WAYS TO A BETTER LIFE