Sai Baba Gita - The Unity of the Self, the One Atma Existing Everywhere

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Sai Baba GitaJune 20, 2004

The Unity of the Self, the One Atma Existing Everywhere

The Gita proclaims that the divinity is present everywhere and in everyone, as

the all-pervading reality we call God. But the Gita declares an even higher

stage than this. It teaches not only that God is everywhere, but that the inner

truth behind the I that you refer to when speaking of yourself is your immortal

self, your highest self, one and the same with God. And that highest self in

you is also the highest self of everyone. It is the atma, one with the

divinity. In essence, you and everyone and everything are God.

Therefore, in addition to teaching the unity of God, expressed through universal

brotherhood, the Gita also teaches the unity of the atma, the one self existing

everywhere. The Gita shows that the atma, which exists as the true self in you,

exists as the same self in all other human beings, and in animals and birds and

every other kind of being as well. Just as the Gita instructs you to regard

happiness and misery as equal, so also it instructs you to recognize the one

atma as existing equally in all beings, whether they are humans, animals or

plants. You must have the conviction that right from microscopic creatures and

insects up to the creator, the same divinity exists uniformly everywhere. That

is why a great poet, brimming with devotion, sang:

O Lord, You have been living in the ant as well as in the creator. You have come

as Krishna and Rama. But truly, you live in every form. I see you everywhere, in

every being I encounter.

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