Sai Baba Gita - You cannot Run from your Inner Enemies

[Guest guest]

You cannot Run from your Inner Enemies

If you just run away to the forest or to a cave without performing the

appropriate exercises to remove your inner enemies, then, whether you like it

or not, all your latent tendencies will continue to produce thoughts and

actions that bind you. These impurities will lie there as seeds in your heart

and prompt a stream of thoughts that will be saturated with likes and dislikes,

desires and delusions. As a result, you end up forgetting your true human

nature.

The Gita has shown that if you can root out the entrenched tendencies that cling

to your heart, then you are free to perform any action without concern for the

results. From that point on, you will not be bound by any actions that you may

become engaged in. In other words, you will be freed completely from the fruits

of your actions. People who do not understand this truth and end up renouncing

all outside activities become mired in sloth and laziness. But the Gita has

repeatedly warned that there is no room at all for laziness in the world of the

spirit.

What the Gita teaches is the yoga of impersonal action, in which you remain

totally detached and free of any personal interest in the work that you do and

in the results that accrue from it. It means working with full concentration to

the limits of your capacity for excellence, but orienting all your actions to

the service of God and remaining established in God-consciousness. You will not

be able to reach this high stage of desirelessness in your actions and

renunciation of the fruits of your labors, as long as your vasanas which have

arisen from past actions are unfavorable for spiritual progress.

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita329.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