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Sai Baba GitaJanuary 18, 2004

True Renunciation is Turning your Mind towards God

Mankind has forgotten the ability to perform penance. When you let your vision

roam in the temporary and transient world, your spiritual path spirals downward

into inertia and stasis. When you concentrate your vision and your awareness on

the permanent God, then you are practicing penance and your spiritual progress

leaps ahead. If a door is locked and you want to open it, you must put the key

inside the lock and turn it towards the right. Then it will open. But if you

turn the key to the left, the lock remains closed. It is the same lock and the

same key. The difference is in the way you turn the key. Your heart is that

lock and your mind the key. If you turn your mind towards God, you get

liberation. If you turn it towards the objective world, you remain in bondage.

It is the same mind that is responsible for both liberation and bondage.

True renunciation is turning your mind towards God. It means constantly bringing

your mind back from other thoughts to dwell on the permanent entity. Such mental

detachment and sacrifice must be developed into a very intense feeling. You

should not keep on postponing the practice to the next day, and then the day

following that, and so on.

Suppose you expect to go to a marriage; you would keep certain clothes ready

several days before the occasion. Or suppose you had a chance to go to the

movies; then you will get ready very fast. Even for just going for a walk you

make yourself ready in a trice. Well, if you cannot go to the cinema today you

can easily postpone it to another day. If you do not go for a walk now you can

always go another time. But the Lord's journey cannot be postponed or canceled.

You must always be ready to accept whatever comes your way. Time waits for no

one. Time does not follow man. Man has to follow time. Time flows on

continuously and takes everything with it.

The Gita teaches you that you may enjoy the various objects of the world, but

while enjoying them you should not get yourself attached to them, thinking that

you possess them. This feeling of renunciation or detachment is one of the most

essential aspects of the spiritual philosophy propounded in the Gita.

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita111.html

Sai Baba Gita, Compiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma Press -

http://www.atmapress.com - ISBN: 0963844903Online Edition:

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

 

 

 

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