December 31, 2025
What do we do to herald the new year? Exactly what we did at the beginning of the old year and every year before that. After a whole night of revelry, we take the old calendar down and put another one in its place. And the old life goes on unaffected by this insignificant change.
We take pious resolves, but they usually march out of our lives in March at the latest. Why is this so? Because of past habits. And often we say, “I would love to give up this habit, but it is so difficult.” If it is possible then to look within, we shall see that in actual fact, “I love the habit and do not want to give it up.”
A real and radical change will not happen in my life till I develop an inner sensibility to such an extent that the past habits really hurt, that every manifestation of selfishness or egotism hurts. Then selfishness and its diabolical retinue lose their charm. Vanity and its violent companions lose their value. Love rules our heart. Wisdom rules our brain. Enlightenment prevails in our soul. Our daily life becomes Divine Life.