New Year Celebrations

One New Year after another has been ushered in for centuries all over the world with great cheer and merriment until the wee hours of the morning. Yet, each year passes off just the same as the previous years, to be merged into the fading past and all is forgotten. All the crass merry-making and revelry is superficial; people simply need an excuse to let go of their principles and go wild.

The ideal way to celebrate the New Year would be to spend the final hour of the New Year’s eve in quiet meditation, retrospecting on how you spent your past year, and what changes you would like to bring about in order to improve the standard of your life in the coming year. Welcome the new dawn with prayer and mantras. Pray for Mother Earth and for all life thereon. What better way to usher in the New Year than by sending out blessings and positive thoughts to all. Dancing and drinking the night away does not help to bring in good times. Such acts of coarse gaiety only helps towards increasing the power of the negative forces that seek to destroy man. 

Year after year, the mistakes are repeated. People have become smug about living unscrupulously – it has become a way of life with most people. No effort is being made towards personal improvement leave alone improving things at the social of global levels. Resolutions are made only to be broken the next day. While the years keep slipping by, the mind of man is still trapped in some dark haunts of his past so that he is ever operating from the depths of his old consciousness where harbours his embittered feelings and emotions. Many nations are caught in the endless struggle of revenge and anger against each other, neither willing to let go without teaching the other a lesson. The warring countries are locked in eternal battle with each other with no respite whatsoever. Man is moving in time but not in spirit. Spiritually he is stunted, and that is really nothing to celebrate about.