Every new year comes with fresh blossoms of hope, and departs with some hopes fructified and some unfructified. Thus life is destined to swing between the uncertainties of hope and despair. This pendulum-like movement of life creates the flow of time: seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, years… and finally death.
Hope is life. Life is time. Time is fear. Fear is death. Death is birth. Birth is life. Life is hope. Hope is despair.
The wise clearly sees this circle — the wheel of life. And for him new and old, birth and death, hope and despair, are all the same.
This sameness of mind is timelessness — the yoga of Gita.
Let that be the message for the new year. Learn Gita; Know the Timeless!
Swami Bodhananda