Sai Baba Gita - The Transitory Nature of all Things

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The Transitory Nature of all Things

The flower which has blossomed today will be dried up tomorrow and it will be

decomposed a few days later. Food that has been cooked today will be spoiled

tomorrow and becomes poisonous the following day. Once it has become spoiled

you cannot get the fresh food back. The beautiful form of today will have

turned ugly by tomorrow. Even atoms making up the matter in the moon may in

time end up here on earth, and atoms making up matter here on earth may go to

the moon. Every seven years all the atoms which constitute the human body

undergo a total change. It would be foolish indeed for you to think that the

body and the sense organs which are made up of the five elements are permanent,

or that any object made up of these elements has any lasting value. Only the

senses will be hankering after such external, transitory things.

The Gita has shown that this impermanent complex of five elements which we call

the body, mind and senses, consists of 24 principles. It is made up of the five

gross sense organs, the ears, the skin, the eyes, the tongue and the nose. These

reach out to the sense objects through the subtle sense organs, comprising

sound, touch, sight, taste and smell. These gross and subtle senses are

inextricably related. Without the subtle the gross cannot not function. For

example, you may have eyes but no sight, you may have ears but no hearing, you

may have a tongue but no taste.

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

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