What should be the goal of any worship or ritual? Bhagavan clearly explains giving an important message. Sathya Sai Babas Thought for the day People resort to vows and rites, hoping to ward off the evil that stars may bring about! But no effort is made to win the grace of God. Let the pomp and the paraphernalia of worship not be merely superficial, if they are, they will not confer lasting benefits; at best, they prevent you from using that much of time and money in harmful ways! It is the why of these rites that matters, not so much the how’. The ‘why’ has to be the realisation of the reality of the individual, which is also the reality of the Universal! So be devoted to the Universal; be eager to become ‘That’. When you pray to God for a job, or a son, or a prize, you are devoted, not to God, but to the job, to the son or to the prize. Pray to God for God; love, because it is your nature to love. Expand your Self, take in all! Grow in Love. - Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch 1, The Bhagavatha. If you earn the grace of the Divine, even mountains of sin can be reduced to dust. – Baba
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