A New Year of Joy

By H.D. Paramahamsa Omkarananda Saraswati

A new year of Divine Life, of Joy supreme, of eternal Unity and perfect Harmony, is come:

Let every day of this new year be filled with a new message, a message of Love, a message of Service, a message of Wisdom!

Today is the most favourable day, today is the most auspicious day, for starting the spiritual life, for the new birth, for entering into the natural process of the soul’s rightful urge towards God.

Behold the Dawn of Divine Life, and be born to a new life in God.

Feel God’s sustaining Grace and the Divine Presence. God is visible to the intensely yearning heart saturated with love for Him.

Look within: you shall find the Lord in your own heart. Turn your gaze inwards and lead an inner life to order your self with the Love of God.

Spiritual life is one of fullness and perfection. Live this spiritual life this very moment and radiate peace and bliss all around.

Fear nothing and desire nothing but for the consciousness of God in Whom you are rooted and Who is the Invisible Resource!

Drink the nectar of compassion towards all beings, who are God and God alone. Give up all that bars the spiritual path. Tear the veils that hide the face of the Lord from you. Break down the walls of ignorance. Destroy the forts of blind passions and attachments! Be sagacious with penetrating intelligence.

Burn the seeds of clinging to the lower self and become Saints in this very year and enjoy the Joy supreme that God shall reward thee with.

Come on! Wake up!! Miss not this day, this year.

Focus the rays of mind and put forth your concentrated effort to experience the immensity of Bliss that is beyond all sorrows.