Sai Baba Gita - Clean your Heart thoroughly to Welcome God there

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Sai Baba GitaJuly 23, 2004

Clean your Heart thoroughly to Welcome God there

If you are inviting a great spiritual being such as a sage or a revered teacher

to your house, there are certain preparations which you will have to undertake

in cleansing, adorning and decorating your house. You will have to clean inside

and out and bring order to the surroundings before the guest arrives. Great

people will not enter a house which is full of dirt and which lacks sacredness.

In the same way, when you have invited the governor or a high official to your

town, you clean the roads and decorate the paths and keep everything ready and

fit to receive the distinguished personage. Even though this person holds only

a temporary position, you will still take great care to clean your house and

make many preparations to welcome the honored guest to your place.

When you make so much effort to receive a worldly official, then how much more

effort and preparation should you make to invite the very creator and protector

of the world to come to your house? Clearly, when you welcome God into your

heart, you must cleanse your heart thoroughly. Only when you purify your heart

will God be pleased to enter it. Krishna said, "Arjuna, up to now you have been

taking me only as the charioteer of your chariot, but you must take me as the

charioteer of your life! The seat on which I am seated in the chariot is clean

and well decorated. Now, think of how clean and grand your heart must be to

make a seat for me there, if I am to install myself as the charioteer of your

life."

If you go to a park and decide to sit down on the ground, you put down a mat, or

a newspaper or a large kerchief and sit on that. When you take so much care

about the seat for this body, which, after all, is just temporary and full of

impurities, how much more care should you take when you are inviting God into

the inner sanctum of your heart?

As long as the two qualities rajas and tamas are in your heart, your heart will

remain impure. These two qualities continuously pollute and dirty the heart. As

long as it is dirty, the divinity will not enter your heart; you will not be

able to perceive the divine presence there. Therefore, you must first remove

the quality of density and inertia, the tamas quality, and having done that,

you must remove the rajas quality. Then the satva quality will shine in you,

and you will become a self assured human being, in touch with your divine

source. Start now by making every effort to remove every bit of dirt that has

accumulated in your heart. There is a small example for this.

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

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