Sai Baba Gita - Reduce Your Desires and Remember the Atma

May 18, 2004

Reduce Your Desires and Remember the Atma

You cannot use the Gita to change the circumstances to suit your convenience.

You have to practice the truths that are contained in the great statements made

in the Gita after realizing their inner significance. The Gita has not just been

taught to Arjuna. This sacred teaching has been given to all people born on

earth. The Gita has been given to the entire world with Arjuna as the medium.

Arjuna stands as the representative of all mankind. These teachings which have

been given to the representative of humanity are applicable to humanity as a

whole.

To follow these teachings you have to gradually reduce your desires and wants,

and gain an understanding of the principle of the atma. That will bring you to

a permanent state of contentment. Examine your life to see if you are

practicing these teachings in your day-to-day activities. Just by memorizing

the 700 verses of the Gita you will not be able to experience the great truths

that are hidden there. These deeper truths will reveal themselves in the

circumstances of your daily life. It is there in everyday situations that you

will be able to experience these truths directly. You have to clearly

understand the qualities that have to be practiced while discharging your

duties. You have to recognize how each of these 26 qualities will help you

reach your goal; and then you have to apply them in your daily life.

Therefore, keep your desires and your greed under control and be ever content.

This will earn for you the love of God. Your profession of love for God is not

enough. That you love God is not of much use unless you get His love directed

towards you. You have to learn how to earn His love and grace. There is no

point in shouting and saying that God is yours. You have to aspire to hear from

God the declaration that you are His. That is the most important thing you must

achieve in this life.

>From this moment on, develop the sacred qualities which will evoke this

priceless declaration of love from the Lord, and thereby sanctify your life.

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

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

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