Thought for the day as written at Prasanthi Nilayam - Aug. 22, 2005

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Often, people are carried away by what they imagine are their

spiritual experiences in their Sadhana (spiritual exercise). All these

exercises are designed purely to provide some sort of mental

satisfaction and nothing more. Ultimately, neither Sadhana (spiritual

endeavour) nor Sadhyam (the goal) exist independently and apart from

each other. Sadhana and Sadhyam are one and the same. It is a trick of

the mind to make Sadhana as the means to Sadhyam. True Sadhana

consists in giving up the Anaatma Bhava (the idea that one is not the

Spirit but the physical body). To turn the vision from the physical to

the spiritual constitutes real Sadhana.

 

-SAI BABA