Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - Knowing, Seeing and Becoming One with the Divi

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

November 22, 2003

 

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Knowing, Seeing and Becoming One with the Divinity

 

What is the reason for such great joy? Let us recapitulate the

process. First you came to know that the particular fruit you love

had become available in the bazaar. That is knowing. After hearing

about it, you didn't get discouraged but developed the intense

desire to get them and enjoy them. You went to the bazaar with great

intensity of desire, yearning to see the fruits there. Finally, you

found them and got a good look at those fruits. That is the stage of

seeing. After seeing the fruit, you acquired them and ate them. This

is the stage of entering into and becoming one with the object of

your desire.

 

Do you have such intense feelings for God? That is the one desire

you really should develop. After listening to a number of

discourses, after reading many scriptures, after knowing that God

exists and after having spent much time in worshipping him, you will

have to develop a strong yearning to see him; otherwise, all your

efforts will be in vain. You have to fervently strive, making an all-

out effort to get a direct vision of the Lord.

 

A student, after having entered a particular grade and spent the

year studying the subjects at that level, will not get any

satisfaction in remaining in that grade for the next year. He will

aspire to progress to a higher grade. If a student is in the same

class for two years he develops a sense of despair and despondency.

Not only does he get discouraged but he is also put through a lot of

ridicule by his fellow-students. In the same way, you will be poorer

in the eyes of other devotees if you continuously remain in the

first stages of dualistic worship, without moving on in your

spiritual development. Other devotees will say, "Look at this

person. He has been attending so many discourses over a long period

of time and he's read all the great scriptures, but what is the use

of all that? There doesn't seem to be any progress in him."

 

This unfortunate process of remaining stuck in the first stage, is

the characteristic feature of the slothful quality of inertia and

laziness. You have to remove this quality and go on from the

dualistic state to the next state of internalizing the Lord. In this

state, through the continuous contemplation of the Divinity inside,

you try to gain a direct vision of God in the particular form you

choose. With intense desire you will get that coveted chance to see

the Lord, converse with him and serve him.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita054.html

 

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