Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

The principle that food is only a drug to cure hunger is ignored and man is enslaved to the tongue. All the twenty-four hours are spent in attending to the care of the body, the prevention of disease, the promotion of health, the development of muscle, etc. No care is spent on the God, resident in the physical tabernacle, who has to be recognized and revered. The weighing machine, on which you stand and read your weight with pride, laughs at you for the silly exaltation. It sneers at your conceit over physical victories; it warns you against too much concern over paltry gains. It knows that death is lying in wait to snatch you away, however heavy you may grow. Develop vision, not the body, concentrate on the Maker, not the made.

 

A certain amount of attention has to be paid to the body and its care, as well as to escape the overpowering handicaps of poverty. But you must ever be cautious that you are not caught in the coils and forget the transitoriness of all this. Bring your thoughts constantly back to the Atma, which is the substance of all the objective world, the basic reality behind all this appearance.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks; Vol. VII, P. 86.