Sai Baba Gita - Constant Practice

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Constant Practice

Detachment or non-attachment is the first important discipline that should be

undertaken. The second is constant practice. What kind of practice can be

called constant? One kind is austerity or penance. The moment people hear this

word austerity they get a little frightened. They inevitably associate

austerity with going into the forest, eating whatever fruits and roots are

available there and exposing themselves to all kinds of risks and sufferings.

Truly speaking, that is not austerity; that is just putting the body through

some suffering and punishment.

It is not the body that must undergo the suffering, but the mind. The mind tends

towards either sloth and chaos or endless activity, and is filled with the sense

of doership and possessiveness. Austerity is putting such a mind with all these

negative tendencies that cling to it, through real torture, until all these

tendencies let go their hold. Austerity also means removing the defects that

are inherent in the sense organs. This is the real austerity. There are three

types of austerity. One is the physical austerity of the body, the second one

is the vocal austerity of the tongue and the third is mental austerity of the

mind.

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