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!