Four days are said to be days of luck; man must be congratulated if he gets this luck.
The first is the day on which brothers and sisters, kith and kin are sitting around and attending a domestic festival showering joy on all.
The second is the day on which one gets the chance to feed the hungry, the distressed and the defectives who cannot earn the wherewithal for livelihood.
The third is the occasion when one gets the atmosphere and the opportunity to meditate on God.
The fourth is the day on which a great person comes to us and instructs and inspires towards the higher life of the spirit.
It has become a convention to address such a gathering as “Brothers and Sisters”, though no speaker is prepared to live up to the ideal that such a form of address implies. Many such empty formalities have entered into daily conduct. For example, it was mentioned now, that today is a ‘red letter day’ in the history of Tirupati. Red-letter days or days that have to be recorded in letters of gold are becoming quite cheap nowadays.
Only four days, remember, deserve that honour: the day on which devotees gather to sing the glory of God; the day the hungry are fed; the day one meets a great sage; and, the day on which discrimination dawns on the individual.
This day certainly falls in the category, so the secretary’s description is, for once, right. I like the work in which this committee is engaged, so I hurried to this place from Bangalore, where yesterday there was continuous singing (akhanda bhajans) by many devotees. I like Saint Thyagaraja. My affection for him is not a ma...
