What should we do to ensure our life is a pilgrimage to God? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today of the basic essentials, so that we may practice and benefit from them.

For want of the five human values, mankind is in the throes of distress and disaster. The morning newspaper is full of murder, massacre, arson, and dacoity. The brain and the mind have been polluted to a dangerous extent. Education aims only at providing information and promoting skills. It has not tackled the problem of moral degeneration, of the sublimation of low desires, of sense control, and the development of spiritual insight. Man is converting himself into a brute with a human form. Vali, the monkey, is said to have argued that Rama wounded it with his mortal arrow, despite the fact that the sin it had committed was pardonable and even proper among monkeys. But, Rama replied that Vali was only a monkey in appearance; it knew both right and wrong, and so deserved punishment. Man, today, is a beast in human garb. When he develops and demonstrates human values, he would have to discard the beast in him and become man, the pilgrim to God.