September 02, 2026
What is the attitude we must develop so that we can be detached from the world? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today with simple examples!
Material wealth brings along with it not only joy but grief as well. Accumulation of riches, multiplication of wants – these lead only to alternation between joy and grief. Attachment is the root of both joy and grief; detachment is the saviour. Asakti (attachment) is maraka (death); anasakti (non-attachment) is taraka (saviour). A millionaire pays income tax with tears in his eyes; a headmaster joyfully gives up the furniture and laboratory appliances of his school when he is transferred to some other place. Why? Because the headmaster knows that he is only the caretaker, not the owner. He is not attached to these articles; he knows that they belong to the government. So, too, feel that your family, your house, your fields, your car, are all the Lord’s property and that you are only the trustee; be ready to give them up without a murmur at a moment’s notice. Tyaga (sacrifice) does not mean that you should not value things; you may even care for them. But remember always that they are transient, that the joy they give is trivial and temporary. That is to say, do not develop moha (attachment) towards them. Know their real worth; do not overestimate them.
– Divine Discourse, Aug 19, 1964
Vairagyam (detachment) means our giving up the feeling that things are permanent and capable of yielding supreme joy. – BABA
With Love,
Baba
#Sri Sathya Sai
Sai Inspires (‘Thought for the Day’, originally in English) is written daily, every day of the year, on a small blackboard, at Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram, Prashanti Nilayam.
