Sai Baba Gita - Transform all your Actions into Sacred Actions and be Free

[Guest guest]

Transform all your Actions into Sacred Actions and be Free

As long as you act with body-consciousness, that is, as long as you identify

yourself as the doer of an action, then that action cannot be karma yoga. Any

action performed with the feeling of ego, the sense that I did it, or with the

sense of attachment, that it is my act, can only bring sorrow to you in the

end. Such actions will always result in further bondage. However, when you

transform your actions into yoga, then you become free from bondage. How does

action or karma become yoga? All actions performed as offerings to the

divinity, without any sense of individual doership and without seeking any

personal results, will be transformed into yoga.

Numerous troubles arise when one acts with a feeling of egoism. Inwardly, you

might feel, 'This action was performed by me, so I should derive the benefits

from this action. I worked, so I deserve to get paid. I am certainly entitled

to the rewards accruing from these actions that I have performed.' Such

feelings serve only to further strengthen the sense of ego, the sense of I and

mine. As this sense of I and mine goes on increasing, the atma goes further and

further into obscurity, and the joy emerging from the atma goes on decreasing.

To destroy egoism completely, Krishna asked Arjuna to transform all his actions

into yoga.

What is the method of transforming your action into yoga? You must become

impersonal; you must not identify yourself with the actions or the results that

accrue from them, but, instead, concentrate fully on the action itself,

remaining indifferent to the results. In other words, you act because it is

your nature to do so, offering all your efforts to the indwelling divinity, and

remaining totally unconcerned and disinterested in the fruit. With such a

feeling of detachment, whatever task you become engaged in will become sacred.

There is the example of King Janaka, who showed by his life that if you perform

actions without any desire for the fruit and without any personal interest in

the act, then your accomplishments can indeed become very great. While ruling a

kingdom, and bearing all the responsibilities associated with it, King Janaka

performed all his acts with the attitude that he was only the witness. Because

he acted without any attachment to the results, Janaka became a sacred king, a

monarch who was also a yogi.

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita318.html

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

http://www.atmapress.com - ISBN: 0963844903Online Edition:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/index.html

 

Tired of spam?

Mail has the best spam protection around