Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - From the Form to the Formless

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for TodayDecember 13, 2003- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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>From the Form to the Formless

You commence your journey from the stage of dualism and finally end up in the

stage of non-dualism. You start your spiritual practice with the very ordinary

type of devotion, worshipping God with form and attributes and using rituals

and external forms of worship. But then you quickly progress onto the formless,

the absolute aspect of the Divinity. In this way, you initially develop yourself

spiritually by being a servant of God, but eventually you become fully

identified with God.

Consider, for a moment, a very big circle, and consider that just by its side

and separate from it there is another circle, one which is very much smaller.

The big circle may be thought of as God, the small one as the individual soul.

Here the individual is different and distinct from God; this is dualism. When

you bring the smaller circle in so that it lies within the bigger circle, you

have qualified non-dualism; now the individual is part of the Divinity, he

exists in God. What then is the meaning of the individual becoming totally

merged in God? The small circle has to broaden itself and grow bigger and

bigger until it has fully expanded to the size of the big circle. At that point

the two circles are indistinguishable and man has merged himself into God. This

is complete non-dualism.

Source:http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita075.html- - - - - - - - - - -

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GitaCompiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma

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