Sai Baba Gita - You cannot start Spiritual Life when Death is at the Door

02-02-2004, 01:03 AM

You cannot start Spiritual Life when Death is at the Door
A housewife once asked her husband, "At least now in your old age shouldn't you
be thinking of God? You never took the time to do it before, during your busy
period. Please, do it now!" The business man replied, "I have no time even to
die, no less to think of God." But do you think that death will not come to
someone who says that he has no time to die? Will death come only according to
his wishes? No, time waits for no one. Therefore, while you still have time you
have to make use of it in a proper way.
The enemy called death, along with his soldiers called disease, will be waiting
to wage war against your body. Men die most pitifully and helplessly during
such periods of time when they are attacked by disease and death. But no army
can attack those who have won the grace of the Lord. Therefore, during youth
itself you have to earn the grace of God and equip yourself to meet all the
challenges of your enemies when they come to lay siege on you. Above all, you
must be firmly convinced in your own heart that this journey of life is going
to be a long one. Any other journey, whether it be by bus, train or plane lasts
for only a short time; you need not make too many preparations for these. But
for this journey of life you must equip yourself for all the contingencies of a
long journey; otherwise you will be suffering greatly later on when you are
faced with real problems and real troubles.
In the compartment of freight trains used to transport chemically-active
substances, a stamp is placed at the time of manufacture giving a particular
date in the future. It is the day when that container has used up its normal
service life and must be returned to the depot for recycling. It is the same
for the container that is your body. Here also a return date has been written
on it by God himself.
You do not remember that you have to go back. People totally forget this
all-important truth. If you really want to enjoy all the pleasures of life at a
later stage, then during youth you have to earn the grace of God. In the course
of human life the early periods of childhood and youth are very important. Not
realizing the great value of this period of your life, you waste your time
during youth. You use a golden cup, adorned with precious gems and jewels, for
a low, mean, contemptible purpose. To feed the fire of your senses you are
using costly sandalwood as fuel. The vessel is very precious, the fuel is also
precious, but the food you are choosing to cook with their help, is insipid and
worthless. Such a precious body and such sacred fuel is being squandered away
for the sake of enjoying useless trivial things in life. Things without value
are put in this precious vessel and used for sordid enjoyment. You are using a
golden plough to plough the field of your heart, but you
produce nothing but useless weeds.
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Sai Baba Gita, Compiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma Press -
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