Our Prayers Should be Selfless and Expansive

SAI RAM. THE TRANSCRIPT OF THIS DIVINE DISCOURSE IS UNAVAILABLE AT THIS POINT. 

Description for the event as given in Sanathana Sarathi, February 1986 issue:

Republic Day (January 26) was marked by a prodigious reception to Bhagavan at Dharmakshetra in which over one hundred educa­tional and welfare organisations in the City joined to felicitate Bhagavan on His 60th birthday. Sri Shivraj Patil, Union Minister for Science and Technology, was the Chief Guest.

Bhagavan told the gathering that while man had undoubtedly great achievements to his credit, he had not cared to pause and think about who had endowed him with this capacity and how he should use his knowledge for his own good and the good of humanity. While man has acquired mastery over the external, he has not acquired control over his own impulses and desires. It is man's own internal weaknesses which are causing all the difficulties and holding up his progress towards a greater destiny.