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New Year Message from Paramhansa Yogananda
"Inner Culture" magazine, January 1938
Our tutor of last year has just passed away. Let
us remember the valuable lessons he taught us and dedicate our
future actions on the altar of the coming New Year. Let us remember
the dire discipline which we received as a result of our erroneous
ways, and let us not repeat them in the New Year.
Let us remember the joyous instructions and blissful experiences
of the past year, and let us repeat them with greater intensity
in the coming New Year. Let us forget the sorrows of the past and
make up our minds not to bring them back in the coming New Year.
With new determination and unflinching will, let us make up our
mind to renew our life, our good habits, our successes.
If the last year has been hopelessly bad, the New Year must be
hopefully good. Remember, no matter what our trials have been,
or how discouraged we are, if we make a continued effort to be
better and to succeed, we will find that, being made in the image
of God, we are endowed with unlimited power. We are much stronger
than our worst trials, no matter what they may be.
Let us make up our minds that we will win, focusing all our concentration
on the ceaseless efforts to succeed in the New Year, and we will
surely be victorious. Our past difficulties did not come to crush
us but to strengthen our determination to use our limitless divine
powers to succeed. God wants us to conquer the difficult tests
of life and come back to His home of wisdom. Let us return to Him
in this New Year.
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