True
Ugadi (New Year's Day) is the day when man gives up bad qualities, fills his heart with love
and takes to the path of sacrifice. Do not limit the celebration of Ugadi
to merely putting on new clothes and partaking of delicious items. Today
you may wear a new shirt, but how long will it remain new? Tomorrow it
becomes old. Today's newspaper becomes a waste paper tomorrow. Our life is
like a newspaper. Once you have finished reading a newspaper, you do not
like to read it again and again. You have been given this birth which is
like a newspaper, and have gone through varied experiences of pleasure and
pain. Enough is enough. You should pray, "Oh God! You have given me
this 'newspaper' and I have gone through the experiences of this life. I
don't want to have another birth."
- Divine
Discourse on Ugadi, April 13, 2002