Sai Baba Gita - Develop Wisdom through Inner Inquiry

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Develop Wisdom through Inner Inquiry

We have seen that if you want to overcome body-consciousness, you must first

overcome your attraction or repulsion to sense objects. Once this goes, duality

will be destroyed. And when duality disappears, ignorance will vanish. This will

all happen when you develop wisdom. Therefore, the Gita has declared that it is

through wisdom that you will be able to destroy ignorance and reach your

ultimate reality.

What is this wisdom that you should develop? Can it be gained by acquiring

secular knowledge in the world? No. It does not deal with external phenomena at

all. It deals only with internal experience. It is only when you have developed

self-confidence, confidence in the indwelling atma, that you will be able to

develop a strong confidence in the Lord. If you do not believe in your self,

you cannot truly believe in God. When you have faith in yourself, then you can

have faith in God. To develop such a firm belief in yourself, to realize the

indwelling divinity which is the same in everyone, you need to constantly

engage in the practice of self-inquiry.

>From the moment you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night you go on

saying I, I, I, and myself and mine. But even when you say I, do you know who

this I really is? You say 'this is my body', 'this is my intelligence', 'this

is my inner feeling', 'these are my senses', but do you ever ask yourself, 'Who

am I ?' If you never inquire into your own truth what good is all the education

you have acquired? If you will not make the effort to inquire into your truth,

then who else will come and remove the writing that is on your forehead? Who

will remove the karma that is imprinted there? Instead of engaging yourself in

self-examination, you just allow impure thoughts to enter your head, and so all

your thinking becomes dull and null.

You should realize that when you say, 'this is my handkerchief', the one who is

the you, is different from the object which, in this case, is the handkerchief.

You say, 'this is my body'. You do not say, 'I am this body'. When you say,

'this is my body' you are declaring that you and the body are different and

separate from each other. If you then inquire who is this you who is saying

this, then you will be led to the indweller. You must inquire who this

indweller is, in other words, who is owning all these things. Only when there

is an owner can there be any meaning in saying 'this is my property, this is my

land'. Only the master who owns the property has the right to say 'this property

is mine'. For the body-mind this master is the indweller. This master will not

undergo any change. He will never leave you. Therefore, by means of inner

inquiry, you should try to discover and recognize this unchanging indwelling

divinity

which is your true reality.

Every spiritual aspirant should take up inner inquiry. In all your spiritual

practices that you engage in, you should spend three fourths of your time on

self-inquiry. Then you will get the full results. Only by using your time

properly, by sanctifying your body and by sanctifying all your actions, will

you be able to reach the goal. The most important reason for all these sorrows

you are prone to, is the weakness you develop because your senses are not under

your control. Use the strength you have to keep your senses under control. Put

your mind on the right path and develop a firm resolve. You will gain great

strength thereby.

The Gita declared that you should control the senses, not that you should

destroy them. The Gita does not say that you should renounce action, but that

you should renounce the fruit of your action. Therefore, you have to do your

work. Although there is no need for the Lord to perform any particular work,

you will find that he is working all the time. If he is working constantly,

should you not be working also?

Perform your work and use all your senses correctly. Use them within the proper

limits for the purposes for which they were intended. Do not ever use them in

the wrong way. This is the message of the Gita.

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