How can we win the grace of God and achieve the ultimate union? Bhagawan most lovingly guided us today.

It is only by fostering love that you can win the grace of God. The Prema-rasam (sweet juice of love) will be drained away if you have holes in your heart (spiritual heart) in the form of bad feelings and evil thoughts. If you plug these holes by curbing the evil qualities, the juice of love will be retained to some extent. You should avoid following the body or the mind and follow only the Conscience. The purpose of life is to help others and not to indulge in sensual pleasures. From dawn to dusk, you are engaged in acts for the sake of maintaining your bodily comforts. What have you achieved by this? Only mental unrest and physical weariness or illness. Your aim must be to achieve Divinity. Tyagaraja questions his own mind in a song whether wealth or service to the Lord will give sukham (comfort) and comes to the conclusion that service to the Lord brings lasting happiness. Service involves tyaga (sacrifice). You should sacrifice that which you consider very dear to you. Sacrifice brings about real communion with the Divine while carnal pleasure results only in disease. Control of the mind alone will lead to union with the Divine.