Sai Baba Gita - Detachment leads to Self-Realization

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Sai Baba GitaJanuary 20, 2004

Detachment leads to Self-Realization

Once you are free of attachment to the sense objects, then the sense organs will

no longer be able to bind your mind. A mind unencumbered by the senses becomes

pure and transparent. It no longer imposes its covering influence over the

atma. When the veil of the mind dissolves, your true self becomes aware of

itself. Then you are immersed in the unity of all existence and enjoy the bliss

which is your true nature. The Gita has taught that non-attachment is crucial

for realizing your true self. That true self is the one supreme self.

Detachment or non-attachment has also been emphasized in the yoga classic of

Patanjali, a great seer of ancient India. He taught that detachment is the

natural property of a mind which remains unswayed by the sense organs and the

objects which attract them. Such a mind, being free from the slavery of the

sense organs and sense objects, is pure and unaffected by delusion. You gain a

pure mind when you see all the objects of this world as transient and changing.

The ancient wisdom teachings have declared that from the lowest creature in the

phenomenal world to the highest, right up to the heavenly beings, everything is

ephemeral and undergoing change. Knowing this, you should relinquish all

attachments to sense objects. Any attachment will gradually but steadily lead

to bondage.

Just as removing the firewood from the fire automatically extinguished the

flame, removing the sense objects from the senses automatically renders them

impotent. The wisdom teachings have stressed in a most forceful way that only

that person who does not care for anything less than full realization of the

supreme self, is a person of true renunciation. Neither objects of the world

nor even the heavenly abode of the Lord could sway him from his one-pointed

focus.

There is a story related in one of the ancient wisdom teachings about a very

wise young boy, who, because of an oath made by his father, found himself in

the realm of death. The god of death tried to win over the boy. He said to him,

"I will give you complete mastery and lordship over all the wealth and all the

power of the world, and I will give you all the pleasures of the heavenly

world." But the boy replied, "This world and all the worlds beyond are but

transient; they will not last. I do not want anything to do with that which

comes and goes. I only want to have the vision of the supreme self. I want to

realize the ultimate truth, that which never changes. The world with its

bondage and all the sorrow that goes with it is for the person who is swayed by

the objects of the senses. They do not interest me in the least."

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