What is the best way to conquer the wicked qualities within us? Bhagawan explains to us today.

The best way to get rid of desire, anger and hatred is to strike at the very taproot of the tree – the mistaken belief that you are the body, with this name and form, senses, intelligence and mind. This is the luggage you are carrying. Don’t you say, my nose, my book, my umbrella? Who is this ‘I’ that calls all these ‘mine’? That is the real ‘you’! It was present, when you were born, when you were sleeping forgetting everything else including your body and its afflictions. That ‘I’ cannot be harmed, it does not change, it knows no birth and death. Learn the discipline that makes you aware of this truth and you will be ever free and bold. This is true knowledge (atmavidya), which the preceptors and sages have gleaned for you. You too must, one day or the other learn this and save yourselves. All have to reach the goal, traveling along the path of wisdom.

- Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
from: Divine Discourse, Feb 20, 1965.