Sai Baba Gita - Only Wisdom can conquer Ignorance

[Guest guest]

Only Wisdom can conquer Ignorance

Ignorance is very deep. It covers your inner truth. It is impossible for you to

remove this thick layer of ignorance by encountering it head-on. In the early

morning at 7 o'clock, although you may be only 5 feet tall, your shadow will be

50 feet long. How can you reduce the length of this 50-foot shadow? Is it

possible to fight with it? If you admonish it, will it listen to you? If you

criticize it, will it be reduced? Whatever you do, its length will not come

down. But as the sun goes on steadily rising, the length of the shadow

diminishes automatically. Once the sun occupies the position overhead, the

shadow, by itself, will have come down to your feet, obliterated itself and

disappeared from view.

You may be 5 feet tall but your ignorance is 50 feet long! Therefore, you have

to develop inner inquiry so that your wisdom will grow. As long as the sun of

wisdom goes on rising, ignorance will go on diminishing. In this way, your

ignorance can be totally destroyed. This is one method.

There is still another method for dealing with this shadow that is 50 feet long.

You realize that you cannot conquer it by turning towards it and trying to run

over it. You realize that by facing it, your shadow will not get any shorter or

disappear from view. But, if instead of turning your face towards your shadow,

you turn your face towards the sun, then your shadow will automatically be

behind you, and however big it is, you will not be aware of it anymore. It will

continuously remain out of sight. Therefore, instead of thinking of this

ignorance, always think of the sun of wisdom. That way you keep the ignorance

behind you and the sun in front of you, and you will not be affected by this

shadow anymore. This means always turning your vision towards God.

Both methods should be employed. Always turn your vision towards God and use

your intellectual and intuitive faculties to increase your wisdom. These are

two major yogas or spiritual paths, the path of devotion and the path of

wisdom. If you do not turn towards God and increase your wisdom, but continue

to turn towards the world, then as with the shadow and the setting sun, your

ignorance will go on increasing and you will get lost. "Therefore," Krishna

warned Arjuna, "use your buddhi, your highest intelligence, to increase your

wisdom. That way your ignorance will get destroyed. The moment your ignorance

is destroyed, duality will vanish. When duality goes, your attraction or

repulsion to sense objects will also disappear. And, once these attachments or

revulsion to objects disappear, your body consciousness will also disappear. If

there is no body consciousness then there is no sorrow."

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita204.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

 

 

Photos:

om/ph/print_splash">High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢

[Guest guest]

Your posting inspires my day. Sai Ram. Blessings.

Amma

 

 

-

saibabanews<saibaba_news

saibabanews<saibabanews>

Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:23 AM

[saibabanews] Sai Baba Gita - Only Wisdom can conquer Ignorance

 

Sai Baba Gita

April 22, 2004

 

 

 

Only Wisdom can conquer Ignorance

 

Ignorance is very deep. It covers your inner truth. It is impossible for

you to remove this thick layer of ignorance by encountering it head-on. In the

early morning at 7 o'clock, although you may be only 5 feet tall, your shadow

will be 50 feet long. How can you reduce the length of this 50-foot shadow? Is

it possible to fight with it? If you admonish it, will it listen to you? If you

criticize it, will it be reduced? Whatever you do, its length will not come

down. But as the sun goes on steadily rising, the length of the shadow

diminishes automatically. Once the sun occupies the position overhead, the

shadow, by itself, will have come down to your feet, obliterated itself and

disappeared from view.

 

You may be 5 feet tall but your ignorance is 50 feet long! Therefore,

you have to develop inner inquiry so that your wisdom will grow. As long as the

sun of wisdom goes on rising, ignorance will go on diminishing. In this way,

your ignorance can be totally destroyed. This is one method.

 

There is still another method for dealing with this shadow that is 50

feet long. You realize that you cannot conquer it by turning towards it and

trying to run over it. You realize that by facing it, your shadow will not get

any shorter or disappear from view. But, if instead of turning your face towards

your shadow, you turn your face towards the sun, then your shadow will

automatically be behind you, and however big it is, you will not be aware of it

anymore. It will continuously remain out of sight. Therefore, instead of

thinking of this ignorance, always think of the sun of wisdom. That way you keep

the ignorance behind you and the sun in front of you, and you will not be

affected by this shadow anymore. This means always turning your vision towards

God.

 

Both methods should be employed. Always turn your vision towards God and

use your intellectual and intuitive faculties to increase your wisdom. These are

two major yogas or spiritual paths, the path of devotion and the path of wisdom.

If you do not turn towards God and increase your wisdom, but continue to turn

towards the world, then as with the shadow and the setting sun, your ignorance

will go on increasing and you will get lost. "Therefore," Krishna warned Arjuna,

"use your buddhi, your highest intelligence, to increase your wisdom. That way

your ignorance will get destroyed. The moment your ignorance is destroyed,

duality will vanish. When duality goes, your attraction or repulsion to sense

objects will also disappear. And, once these attachments or revulsion to objects

disappear, your body consciousness will also disappear. If there is no body

consciousness then there is no sorrow."

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita204.html<http://www.atmapresscom/sai\

babagita/saigita204.html>

 

------

 

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

Press - http://www.atmapress.com<http://www.atmapress.com/> - ISBN: 0963844903

Online Edition:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/index.html<http://www.atmapress.com/saibaba\

gita/index.html>