Your Highest Self is God

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om sai ram

A very beautiful extract from sai baba gita.

'sai bless u'

sai ram

--- SUNRAYS MR <sunrays_mr wrote:

 

> Your Highest Self is God

> In the waking state, you may think that you are

> doing everything for the sake of your body and mind.

> But in deep sleep you are not conscious of your body

> or your mind. Then for whose sake are you enjoying

> the rest and peace of sleep? It is for the sake of

> yourself. Sleeping, taking food, all the various

> activities of your daily life, are performed only

> out of love for yourself. You believe that you are

> doing all these for your personal self which you

> experience to be separate from God, but the I that

> you call yourself really emerges from your highest

> self which is no different from God. Whatever you do

> out of love for yourself reaches your highest self

> and, therefore, reaches God. So you must do

> everything with the awareness that whatever action

> you undertake, good or bad, will certainly reach

> God. Devotion means making all your actions sacred

> and dedicating them to God alone.

> In the ancient scripture we find a conversation

> between a sage and his wife in which the sage

> explained these inner meaning to his wife. He said

> to her, " For whose sake are you loving me? If you

> examine your deepest intentions you will discover

> that it is for your self. The wife does not love the

> husband for the husband's sake. It is for herself

> that she loves the husband and that self is the true

> self, her highest self. You may think that the

> mother loves the child for the sake of the child,

> but it is not so. It is for herself that she loves

> the child. Again, it is for her highest self. You

> may feel that the teacher loves the student for the

> student's sake, but it is really for the teacher's

> sake that he loves the student. Similarly, the

> devotee does not love God for God's sake; it is

> really for himself that he loves God. "

> When the devotee feels the deep joy of love for

> God, he believes it is his personal self that is

> feeling this joy. And so his love for God is tinged

> with selfishness. But, God's love for the devotee is

> totally different. God's love for the devotee is not

> selfish. It is only for the devotee's sake. Herein

> lies an important hidden truth which can be found

> behind every spiritual practice. God has no sense of

> individuality or separation. He does not feel that

> some things are his and others are not his. When

> there exists a feeling of difference and

> individuality, then selfishness and the sense of

> I-ness and my-ness arise. But God does not limit

> himself to any particular form. He has no separate

> feeling of mine and thine. He has no selfishness.

> These three injunctions, " Work for God!... For the

> sake of God alone!... Be devoted only to God!... "

> are given for your sake. They are not given for the

> benefit of God but for your benefit. They are

> intended to help you realize your true

> self by removing all traces of selfishness and

> separation which becloud your truth and keep you

> from being one with God.

> mukundan

> (sai baba gita)

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