My Dear Boys!

Accept My Blessings and Love. Even if every attempt of ours is a failure, and we weep and are torn asunder, yet, through all this we have to preserve our heart. We must assert our God-hood in the midst of all these difficulties. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. Then it requires a Super Divine power not to hit back, to keep control and to be unattached.

Dear Boys! We require no one else to make us happy for we are happiness itself. The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy that may be dyspepsia (indigestion) but it is not religion. My dear boys, today I am with you, in you. Be happy.

With Blessings,
Baba
January 14, 1975 (Sankranthi)

(Letter to His students.
From Prema Dhara, a collection of Swami's letters)