As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the centre of their being.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
