Sai Baba Gita - Everything comes from the One Indwelling Divinity

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Everything comes from the One Indwelling Divinity

There may be a great downpour. Huge torrents of water will be flowing from the

trees, water will be coming from the roof and the rain-gutters, it will be

coming from the overhangs, it will be spilling over from the roof of the

adjoining house, and running off from there onto your house, it will be

flooding the ground all around causing rushing rivulets and streams. The water

will be everywhere and will seem to be coming from so many different sources,

but every drop of all this water can only have originated from the sky above.

Similarly, all this speech, all this strength, all this beauty, all these

skills, in whomsoever they appear, are all coming from only the one source, the

one divinity pervading everywhere. You have to recognize the unity which

underlies all these different traits. Once you have a firm grasp of this unity,

all diversity will disappear. And once the diversity disappears, the desires

will also disappear. Then, when desire goes and the attraction to worldly

objects goes with it, there will be no more room for repulsion and dislike

leading to anger. Therefore, when you gain divine wisdom you conquer desire and

anger.

It is through spiritual practice, particularly through inner inquiry, that you

will be able to realize the unity and enjoy the divinity which is always within

you. This yearning to gain the light of divine wisdom, to see the one in the

many, is expressed in the great prayer:

>From the unreal lead me to the real,From darkness lead me to the light,From

death lead me to immortality.Om, Peace, Peace, Peace.

Asatoma satgamaya,Tamasoma jyothir gamaya,Mrityorma amritam gamaya,Om shanti, shanti, shantihi.

Whatever work you do, if you do it for the sake of the Lord and offer it to the

Lord, then the work takes on a sacred value. Anything that becomes associated

with the Lord, thereby becomes sacred and highly potent. Consider, for example,

an ordinary rat, which is a despicable thing. If you see a rat inside your

house, you take a stick and try to kill it, or set a trap to destroy it. When

you see it you feel revulsion. But, traditionally in India, the rat has been

associated with a particular form of the divinity, Lord Ganesha, who is the

embodiment of divine wisdom;. The rat is Ganesha's vehicle which carries

Ganesha around. Now, if you are a devotee of Ganesha and you see images of the

rat associated with Ganesha, you revere it as the sacred instrument of the

Lord. What is the reason for this? The high value that the rat carrying Ganesha

has been able to obtain is due to its association with this representation of

the divinity.

Similarly, when you come across a snake you may feel some fear and go to get a

stick to drive it away. Or you may get a snake charmer to catch hold of it. But

when the same snake adorns the neck of Lord Shiva, you worship it and offer it

your prayerful salutations. What is the reason for this? The reason is that it

has offered itself to the Lord and serves him alone. Therefore, it has also

become divine like the Lord. Even if it is a poisonous snake, once it has

offered itself to God, it acquires fame and nobility.

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

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