Rid Yourself of the Six Enemies
From:
Sri Sathya Sai
My Dears!
Accept My Blessing and Love. The fruit is sweet but the rind can afford to be bitter. For, after all, it is the juice of the orange and the sugar content of the sugarcane that counts. Put off the rind of anger, malice, envy and greed and assimilate the sweetness of the fruit so that the sweetness can develop within you.
Be a lotus. The lotus born in slime and mud rises up through the water and lifts its head above it. It refuses to get wet although it springs up from water. Be like the lotus or the lily of the water, unattached. Life has its ups and downs, its profits and losses, its joys and sorrows, depreciations and appreciations and balance sheets. But the giving of Bhakti in exchange for Mukti is the most powerful business of all.
There are three types of men; those who seek pleasure of others, those who consider the pleasure of others first and derive thereby the pleasure of their own and those who try to prevent others from getting pleasures or benefits even at the cost of their own own.
With blessings.