No "New Year" will give you the "new." So many New Years have come and gone, only to become old years. If you want the new, why do you stick to the old? The new, the happiness you are looking for, will not come through experience. Look around, look at your relationships, look at your mind, your thoughts, and maybe you will suddenly cry out, “The looking itself is new.”
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Acharya Prashant: Another ‘new’ year is approaching, and we have a great desire for the ‘new’. See how we are eager to celebrate anything that appears new. See, how desirous we are to change the old and get into the new. Surely, we aren’t quite contented with the old; surely, we want something new. Really new.
The desire for the new is the desire for becoming, is it not? Do you understand why we keep looking forward to dates: “The next important date! The next important date?” Because there is a great need to become, because we are yearning for change, and there is a hope that may be the next date might bring that change in one’s life.
Is the new going to come because you desire it and need it? Wherever there is need, there is dependence on time. You say, “Something will come and provide me with the new,” don’t you? You are dependent, then, on the future. The new will not come to you via time; the new is not contained in the future. You will find the eternally new here; you will find the ancient new here.
