Embodiments of Love! Today is Ugadi, the beginning of the New Year. Since ancient times, people have celebrated many Ugadis, but they are yet to give up bad qualities. True Ugadi is the day when one gives up bad qualities, fills their 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. Nobody reads the same newspaper everyday. 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. Don’t ask for one more newspaper, i.e. another birth. 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, Apr 13, 2002.