Swami teaches...

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Light and Love

 

Swami's Teaching is as a huge entity what collects the ancient and modern

spiritual culture of humanity. It is as one Message what exists in different

forms and levels as an example of unity in diversity illuminating through the

Divine Power and Will. The skill of the seeker of truth is to acknowledge the

suitable form from His Teaching according to the person's spiritual, social and

cultural level.

"If the mind is properly understood and disciplined and is applied to get,

rid of wicked qualities based on selfishness, it will lead to a purposeful and

fruitful life.

We should first, of all have a firm faith in the inherent divinity of man.

On the one hand, there is the manifested world, which attracts the attention of

our body and senses and also entices our mind, and on the other hand there is an

unmanifested divinity, which is the substratum of the manifested universe...

Living in this fast universe, you should try to cultivate correspondingly broad

feelings. But, misguided by the mind, people are harbouring narrow feelings and

thus making their lives miserable. The solution is to follow the guidance of

the intellect, eschewing the vagaries of mind.

Why is there the importance for the intellect? Because the sense organs are

superiour to the body, the mind is superiour to the sense organs and the

intellect is superiour to the mind. The Aathma* (the Self) is superiour to the

intellect. Thus it can be seen that the intellect is the nearest of all to the

Self and hence it has this advantage of receiving the maximum potency and

effulgence from the Self...

It is the mind that is responsible either for one's upliftment or downfall.

One should not hastily run into action, based on the whimsical dictates of

mind. It is only after considering whether the action is good or bad, right or

wrong, that a person with a disciplined mind acts. Such man will ultimately

reach the goal of self-realisation." (Bhagawan Sathya Say Baba. Follow the

Intellect, not the Mind." Excerpts-as tiny compilation from the Divine

Discourse at the Summer Course in Brindavan, 25 May 1993).

 

* Spelling of Discourse is not changed.

 

Namaste - Reet