Sai Baba Gita - Intellect Surpasses all your Senses

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Intellect Surpasses all your Senses

The sun and moon shine in the world but they cannot illuminate God. The light

shining inside the house can illuminate the objects inside but it cannot

illuminate God. How do you know that the sun and the moon shine and that fire

burns? On what basis can you declare that these things are bright and luminous?

It is because of your eyes that you can recognize their brightness. If you did

not have eyes the radiant light of the sun and moon would not be seen by you.

But as for these eyes, what is it that helps them to see? Even when you are

sleeping or when your eyes are closed there is an unmistakable radiance shining

in your awareness. It is your highest intellect, your intuitive faculty, your

buddhi. Therefore, you can conclude that even more effulgent than your eyes is

your intellect. There is a small story to illustrate this.

There were two friends, a blind man and a lame man;. They would go begging

together from village to village. The blind one had good legs and the lame one

had good eyes. The lame man sat on the shoulders of the blind man. So, with the

help of each other they were able to go from village to village. Once, on their

way, they came across a beautiful field of melons. The lame man said to the

blind man, "Brother, there are some very fine looking melons in this field. Let

us go into the field and eat some; afterwards we can take a little rest and

proceed on our way."

The blind person said to the lame person, "Brother, be careful. There may be

some watchman keeping an eye on the field." The lame man said, "No, there is no

one there." The blind man went on, "Please tell me if there is a fence or a gate

around this garden." The lame one said, "There is neither a gate nor a fence. We

can go and have our dinner." The blind person immediately said, "Brother, these

melons must be very bitter and inedible, otherwise why is there no watchman, no

fence and no gate to protect them?"

A person may not have eyes to see, but if he uses his intellect he is greater

than the one who sees with his eyes. Therefore, it is really the intellect

which lends a shining quality to the eyes. But from where does the intellect

get its power? The intellect is shining because of the atma. Therefore, because

of the atma the intellect is illuminated, and because of the intellect the eyes

shine and can see, and because the eyes see, the effulgence of the sun and the

moon can be perceived, and because of the sun and the moon the whole world

shines. We see that the ultimate source that illuminates everything is the

atma. Therefore, it is the atma which you should worship.

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

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