Life is a Business

My Dears!

Accept my blessings and love. The fruit is sweet even if the rind can be bitter. For, after all, it is the juice of the orange and the sugar content of the sugar cane that counts. Remove the rind of anger, malice, envy, and greed and assimilate the goodness of virtues so that its sweetness can develop within you. Be like the lotus. Even though it emerges from slime and mud, it rises up above the water and remains untouched by it, and does not allow itself to get wet. Be like the lotus or the lily of the pond and remain unattached.

Life itself is a market, a kind of business. There is the receiving and the giving, buying and selling, bargaining and speculating with their associated ups and downs, profits and losses, joys and sorrows, depreciations and appreciations and balance sheets—all part of a game. But the giving of bhakti [devotion] in exchange for mukti [liberation] is the most powerful business of all.

There are three types of men: those who consider the pleasures of others first and thereby derive pleasure of their own, those who seek pleasures for themselves only with no attention paid to the pleasures of others, and those who try to prevent others from getting pleasures or benefits even at the cost of their own.

With Blessings,

Baba (Sathya Sai)