Sai Baba Gita - Worldly Knowledge is Useless without Self-Knowledge

04-12-2004, 03:22 AM

Worldly Knowledge is Useless without Self-Knowledge
Krishna taught in the Gita that once you acquire true spiritual knowledge your
troubles, difficulties and sorrows all disappear.

Embodiments of Love,
As long as you identify yourself with your body, you will be exposed to
countless problems and sorrows. The primary reason for having obtained your
body in the first place, is to enable you to undergo the consequences of your
past actions. This is your karma, the results of activities you have engaged in
which have not yet fructified. Why did you accumulate this karma in the first
place? Why did you engage in activities which bear consequences long into the
future? The reason for karma is the desire or attachment you have for some
things and the dislike or repulsion you have for other things. And what is the
reason for this attraction and repulsion? It is because your mind is steeped in
duality. You believe that this world is real and is filled with objects and
things which are separate from you. But, where did this false view, this
duality, come from? The reason for duality is your state of ignorance, the
beclouding of your consciousness by a dark veil that
covers the knowledge of your true reality.
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Sai Baba Gita, Compiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma Press -
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