Sai Baba Gita - Offer up your Mind to the Lord

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Sai Baba GitaJuly 31, 2004

Offer up your Mind to the Lord

The sum and substance of all this is that you should offer up your mind to the

Lord. In everything you do and think and say, follow his directions, emanating

from the purity of your heart. That is what is meant by becoming mindless. Do

not allow your mind to follow desires. Offer all these desires up to the Lord

and follow only his dictates. Until you have done that, pleasure and pain,

happiness and sorrow and all the other pairs of opposites will be present

within you. If you want to become free of these opposites and treat all things

equally, you have to become mindless. That is why it has been said in the

Vedanta that it is the mind which is responsible for liberation or bondage. As

long as you retain the mind, rajas and tamas will not leave you. So long as you

have rajas and tamas, you will have no steadiness. Why is the mind so unsteady,

constantly hopping from place to place? It is because of desires. These desires

all relate to the

body.

Consider for a moment that you have poured a little water into a vessel; when

the vessel moves, the water also moves. If the vessel is steady then the water

remains steady. In steady water you will be able to see your own image. In

moving water your image will be blurred and indistinct. It follows then that if

you want to enter the still state of meditation and have a vision of your true

self, you must keep your body steady. The body is like a vessel; the mind may

be compared to the water inside. If the body moves, it is like the movement of

the vessel. Then the mind inside will also move. Therefore, if you want to keep

your mind steady, you must keep your body steady. Considering how much you move

the body, think of how much more the mind will move.

If you throw a stone into a well, ripples will start. These ripples or waves,

which arise from the stone hitting the water, will soon spread to the far end

of the well. In the same way, once you put a thought into the well of your

mind, it spreads to the entire body. And whatever be your thoughts, they will

subsequently influence your actions. So, you must constantly keep good

thoughts, positive thoughts, in your mind. When you are having good thoughts,

there will also be good feelings in your heart. If negative thoughts enter your

mind, then, in whatever you see, in whatever you hear, in whatever you say and

wherever you go, these negative thoughts will lead to harmful actions and

grievous results.

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