Sai Baba Gita - Atma remains unchanged, the Individual changes

[Guest guest]

The Light of Wisdom dispels the Darkness of Ignorance

Consider a person who has built a house for himself. From the moment he

completed the house he has been considering it as 'his' house. When he dies,

the house goes to his heir, who then starts calling it 'his' house. Suppose, as

time goes on, this new house owner becomes poor and has to sell the house to

discharge his debts. Another person buys the house and begins calling the same

house 'his' house. Now, who does this house really belong to? Does it belong to

the one who constructed it, to the one who inherited it or to the one who bought

it? There is no change in the house. In other words, the object remains as

before. There is a change only in the persons who claim to own it. The house

just continues to be there, but the claimed ownership undergoes repeated

change.

In a similar way, there is the unchanging entity, the atma, which, like the

house, remains unaffected by the countless owners who come and go. Each one

claims personal ownership of this inner house which they call I. Each one

believes the I to be their own personal self, but, in truth, it is the one,

unchanging atma. And so this my-ness goes on constantly changing, but the atma

which is being claimed as one's personal property, expressed every time one

says I, remains unaffected by all these assertions.

Is there any medicine to cure this disease of I-ness or my-ness? Both the

revealed and the written scriptures have declared that it is the mind which is

responsible for this possessive nature. It has been said that along with the

five senses of perception, the mind may be considered to be a sixth sense. But

it is not just another sense equal to the other senses. In fact, it is the

master of all the senses.

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita196.html

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

http://www.atmapress.com - ISBN: 0963844903Online Edition:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/index.html

 

 

Tax Center - File online by April 15th