Sai Baba Gita - From Sacred Action to Devotional Feelings to Bliss

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Sai Baba GitaAugust 8, 2004

>From Sacred Action to Devotional Feelings to Bliss

Nature has been described as the field of action; it gives you the opportunity

to sanctify your work and reach your goal. When you perform 60 good actions,

one good feeling will emerge. Therefore, to get the one good feeling you have

to perform so many good actions. And it is only when you have sixty such good

feelings that there will be one small movement of the hour hand, which

represents the ineffable experience of divine joy. Therefore, Krishna told

Arjuna to perform good actions. When you do innumerable good actions, you are

likely to get one or two deeply satisfying and lasting good feelings. And it is

only when you develop innumerable such good feelings that you will be able to

reach the bliss that is the eternal state of the atma. Therefore, you must

start by performing many good actions.

The body has been given to you for this specific purpose of performing actions.

It is impossible to spend even a moment without being active. That is why the

performance of sacred activities, which includes ceremonial and ritual worship,

has been given so much importance in the Vedas, the holy scriptures of India.

But sacred actions do not just refer to performing sacrifices, doing penance

and giving charity, each of which gives rise to an anticipated result. There

are many actions that you can undertake from which you would not expect any

fruit, at all. Such actions, which are performed without any concern for the

fruit, can be termed karma yoga.

When an action is performed without desire and without any feeling of egoism,

then it is karma yoga. That is the highest form of action, the most sacred of

all, and it's one you should follow in every move you make in life. Remove your

egoism. Drive it away. Remove your desire for the fruit. When you perform action

with this attitude, it becomes work in the spirit of true sacrifice, it becomes

penance and it becomes yoga. All three of these, sacrifice, penance and yoga

convey the same idea. Every action you perform should be sanctified in this

way. Even inhaling and exhaling are actions; they are also karma. Without

performing karma, man cannot live for even a moment in the world. But karma

associated with ego will always be narrow and harmful.

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