Most of the Brahmacharies from Engineering college faculty as well as other divisions), including me, were busy from morning onwards preparing for the stage-play that we were thinking of enacting in front of our Beloved Amma, on New Year eve.<\/p>\n
A day before, I was told that I will be performing the role of a crippled boy. I was all set to shave of my beard when on 31st afternoon, I was told that I will be doing the role of an old man. Thankfully, I had not taken off my beard. Around midnight we performed the play. After the play as I was coming out of the stage, I met someone who said jokingly to me – “So you are going to be old this year!”. I asked him asa to why he was saying that. He said – “In my native place, we usually believe that whatever you do at the beginning of the new year, that determines how you will spend
your full year”.<\/p>\n
As I thought about what that person had said, it reminded me of Amma’s teaching – “If only the vigor of the younger generation and the expereinced eyes of the elderly were to combine together, success is sure in any field of life”. I prayed to Amma in my Heart – “Amma, bless all of Your children, so that we are really able to live as per your teachings”.<\/p>\n
May the Young and the Elderly go forward, hand in hand, in the New year.<\/p>\n
Amit, Amritapuri
31 December 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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