Sai Baba Gita - Make all your Actions a Sacrifice not a Battle

[Guest guest]

Make all your Actions a Sacrifice not a Battle

To reach your spiritual goals, you need to obtain God's love. In fact, for a

devotee, pleasing the Lord is itself the goal. It becomes your most important

duty. You must make sure that every act you perform will satisfy the Lord.

Krishna taught, 'Obey my commands and perform your duty.' In obeying the

commands of the Lord and fighting in the war, Arjuna's actions became a sacred

yagna, a sacrificial ritual which exalts the divinity and immerses one in the

divine flow of grace. In contrast, there is a story in one of the epics of

Daksha who wanted to perform a yagna, a ritual sacrifice. However, he disobeyed

and disrespected Lord Shiva, and he also violated the commands of the holy

sages. With a sense of egoism and attachment, he commenced the sacrifice. His

egoism converted that sacrifice into a war.

You see that because Arjuna obeyed the Lord's commands and fought in the war,

his battle became a sacred sacrifice. But for Daksha, who performed his

sacrifice in violation of the Lord's commands, his sacrifice became a battle.

What is a war and what is a sacrifice? All actions that are pure and selfless,

and performed as an offering to the Lord, become a sacrifice. But actions which

are undertaken in violation of the Lord's command, which are contrary to the

scriptures and which are performed with a sense of egoism and pomposity,

undertaken only for the purpose of promoting one's desires or hatreds ...all

such actions become a war, even though the nature of the action may be that of

a sacrifice. When the anguish and hatred in a person takes form in words, and

these words, in turn, lead to argument and counter argument, then a battle will

soon ensue. The root of all this is attachment and desire, arising from

identification with the body.

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita345.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

 

vote. - Register online to vote today!