People say Lord Yama, God of death takes everyone’s life away using a rope called Yama pasa. What is the rope that takes every person’s life? Attachment and selfishness are the ropes that bring end to each one! God does not create pleasure and pain from somewhere else! To think that due to others or external factors we get difficulties or happiness is incorrect! We ourselves cause our own happiness or grief. If we recognise this, we need not fear. When we are full of pure love we will be fearless. Where there is sin, there is fear. So, never give scope to wrong deeds. Whatever small work you may do, first discriminate whether it is good or bad. Take time. Do not be in haste. ‘Haste makes waste. Waste brings worry. So do not be in a hurry’. Whatever happens, be peaceful. Pray to God and cultivate love for God. That love is the divine nectar that will remove all sorrow.

- Divine Discourse, Jun 20, 1996.