Sai Baba Gita - Detachment, Devotion and Sense-Control

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Detachment, Devotion and Sense-Control

This sense-control is something like the wick in the lamp of your heart. Merely

having the wick of sense-control is not enough. You must also have oil, which

is the fuel for the lamp; that is your devotion. And there must be a container

which holds this oil, and that is your detachment. If you have the container,

the oil and the wick, you will be able to light the lamp easily. Still, someone

has to come and light it. That someone is God. Once you have detachment,

devotion and sense-control, then the divinity will come and light the lamp in

your heart. In the case of Arjuna, it was Krishna who performed this sacred act

of lighting the lamp and revealing the splendor of the atma in Arjuna's heart.

Suppose you have some flowers, a needle and some thread, will these

automatically turn into a garland? No. There has to be someone to string the

garland together. You may have gold and precious stones, but without a

goldsmith to create it, you will not be able to obtain a beautiful jewel made

out of these articles. You may have a high intelligence, you may have books

containing the highest knowledge and you may have keen eyes to see them, but

without someone to teach you to read, they will all be meaningless and useless

to you.

The atma is always present it never changes, it never comes and goes. The

spiritual teachings will also be ever-present; they will be there waiting for

you when you are ready to receive them. And, inwardly, you may have an intense

yearning for illumination. All these may be there for you, but unless the true

guru, the spiritual teacher, comes and transmits the immortal knowledge to you,

you cannot become enlightened. If you are ready to realize the underlying

reality of all the objects of the world and to discover the divine principle

within you, then you need the true teacher, the highest source of knowledge to

come and instruct you. To gain the sacred knowledge of the self, that teacher

is the universal teacher. It is God himself who comes to guide you to your

goal. He may take on different forms. In the case of Arjuna, the divine teacher

was Krishna, the avatar of that age, and he started by teaching Arjuna

sense-control.

You must take some time to reflect on the deeper significance of all these

teachings on sense-control, which were given by Krishna to Arjuna, not in an

ashram setting, but on the battlefield, at the eve of a great battle fought to

preserve righteousness and to counter the forces of injustice and untruth that

had become rampant.

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