Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - I Am God

12-12-2003, 12:15 AM

Sai Baba Gita Reading for TodayDecember 12, 2003- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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I Am God
If you develop within yourself the sacred and lofty idea, "I am God", you will
not be bothered by anything; nothing can come in your way. Of course, it is of
no use to merely utter these words. You must first overcome your body
consciousness and maintain a firm control over your senses. At the same time,
you must develop an intense love for God and live it by continuously
identifying yourself with the divine. This will lead you to the supreme wisdom.
Or, you can express your love for God by following the path of the servant. This
will quickly remove the egoism from your heart and fill you with bliss.
There are three successive stages on the way to God-realization. In the very
beginning you will declare, "I am a devotee of God." Here there are two
entities, one is God and the other is you, the devotee. God is believed to be
away somewhere, and your approach will be to try to find God, to get closer to
him, and become very near to him. Gradually you progress along this path and,
in time, you will come face to face with God. Then you say to him, "Dear Lord,
I belong to you." In this second stage, you stand erect before God and declare
yourself as his own, very close to him. Then in the third stage you know
yourself to be one with God and you state, "You and I are one."
The first stage, which is characterized by the declaration, "I am the servant of
God," and where God is cognized as a faraway form, is dualism. The second stage,
where you say directly to God, "O Lord, I am your devotee", and feel him inside
your heart, is the stage of qualified non-dualism. The third stage, in which
the ultimate truth dawns within you and you say to God, "I am you and you are
me", is non-dualism. At that point there is no distinction between you and God.
Source:http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita074.html- - - - - - - - - - -
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GitaCompiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma
Presshttp://www.atmapress.com - ISBN: 0963844903Online Edition:
http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/index.html

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