Sai Baba Gita - The Qualities of the Truly Wise

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The Qualities of the Truly Wise

Arjuna said, "Swami, I will obey your commands, whatever they may be. Whatever

you ask of me I will do. I will not undertake anything on my own, anything that

is outside of your directions." This is the true attitude of a sage. He will not

have the feeling of I and mine. He will not have any egoism or attachments. His

every action will destroy any traces of ego or possessiveness. He will accept

and follow only the commands of the Lord, who is no different than his own

inner director. Because these noble qualities are so important for spiritual

unfoldment, the characteristics of a wise man are explained at great length in

the second chapter of the Gita.

But, just describing the qualities of a wise sage would not have been of much

use, so Krishna began by explaining the qualities of the three states and the

different aspects of the three worlds. Arjuna had the intellectual capacity to

grasp the true significance of this. After being given the vision of the cosmic

form of the Lord, he immediately understood its deeper meaning. He realized that

it meant the union between the physical, the mental and the causal. After having

had the vision of the cosmic form, whenever Arjuna closed his eyes thereafter,

he would continuously see Krishna as an indelible impression on his heart. He

realized that what he had seen with his eyes wide open was in the physical

plane. Then, after closing his eyes, whatever still registered in his mind and

was being seen by him internally, was in the mental plane. The indelible

impression of this vision that remained in his heart was in the causal plane.

It is something like print on paper. Once a picture is

printed, it is impossible to separate it again from the paper. In this way, the

cosmic form of Krishna became a permanent impression in Arjuna's heart.

Arjuna was the ideal man. Yet, in order to serve as an example for all of

humanity, he undertook all kinds of common activities just like an ordinary

person. Inside, within himself, he always kept his mind firmly fixed on Lord

Krishna, who was the formful expression of his own true self, the atma. Arjuna

knew that this physical body was for the sole purpose of obeying the commands

of the inner director, manifested for him in the divine form of Krishna. In the

Gita, Krishna held out this quality of inner surrender as the ideal mark of a

truly wise man.

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

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