Every year, since the beginning of history of mankind, people bid grand farewell to the old year and welcome the new year! What happens during the year? Only despair and distress, anxiety and insane fear, isn’t it? Use this year to enquire and discover how you can earn everlasting peace! You can earn it only through Love! Peace is the fruit of the tree of life! Without the fruit, the tree is a barren stump with no value or validity. This fruit is encased in a bitter skin, so that the sweet juice is preserved and guarded! Remove the skin and you can taste the sweetness within and strengthen yourself. The thick rind is symbolic of the six evil passions that encase the loving heart of every human - lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride and hate. Those who remove the rind and contact the sweetness within through hard and consistent discipline, attain the peace we all desire; that peace is everlasting, unchanging, and overwhelming!

- Divine Discourse, Jan 1, 1971.