Sai Baba Gita - The Body is an inert Thing made of the five Elements

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The Body is an inert Thing made of the five Elements

Take shelter in the indwelling Lord. Do not keep looking towards the body and

feeling proud. The body is subject to so many diseases; it undergoes many

changes. It is barely able to journey on this ocean of worldly existence and

survive. The body is only an inert thing; it is nothing more than seven buckets

of water, the iron from four 2-inch nails, the phosphorous from 1,100 match

sticks, the carbon contained in four pencils and two pieces of soap. When you

put all these things together with a few other assorted substances, it becomes

a body. So, the body just consists of this inert matter. But it is able to move

and exhibit life because there is an indweller inside.

Consider the wall clock that is hanging there. It has three hands: a second

hand, a minute hand and an hour hand. As soon as you wind the clock, all three

hands start moving at their own prescribed rate. How long will they keep moving

thus? They keep moving as long as there is power in the spring to energize them.

The moment that power is exhausted, they stop wherever they are. Your body may

be compared to a clock. The breath may be compared to the spring. Your actions

may be compared to the second hand; your feelings may be compared to the minute

hand; and your joy may be compared to the hour hand. It is the divine energy

within which empowers and vitalizes all this.

In the context of this example of the clock, you can answer the question as to

why you perform actions at all. You see that the second hand, which represents

your actions, moves quite fast and soon covers one whole revolution of 60

seconds. At that point, the minute hand, which represents your feelings, will

have advanced one sixtieth of a revolution. It is only when the second hand has

made sixty full revolutions of sixty seconds each, and the minute hand has gone

once around, that the hour hand, which represents an experience of divine joy

and bliss, will move one division. The hour hand moves so slowly that you

cannot even detect its movement, although you can see the movement of the

minute and second hands.

There is an inner secret here. Once every hour all three hands meet. When the

action which is associated with the body and nature, when the feeling which is

associated with the inner man, and when the unending joy which is associated

with the divinity all come together, then you have the meeting of nature, man

and God.

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