Guest guest Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Thus Spake The Lord How can this stage of yoga be attained? The Gita proposes to teach just this. Its first word is Dharma and its last word is mama (mine). It teaches every one who studies it: mama dharma---"my dharma,my duty,my responsibility to myself." And what is that? Yoga. How is this yoga to be attained? By surrendering to God, by effacing one's will and accepting His Will and leaving all initiation of activity to His Prompting, all execution to His Direction, and all consequences thereof to His Plan. This is the lesson driven home by the Hindu scriptures. "Give up all bonds of right and duty, surrender unreservedly to Me; I shall guard you from sin and liberate you from the sad cycle of "entrances" and "exits" on the stage of life. You can remain ever in your own Reality of Eternal Calm," the Lord assured. The greatest obstacle on the path of surrender is ahamkaara (egoism) and mamakaara (mineness or possessiveness). It is something that has been inhering to your personality since ages, sending its tentacles deeper and deeper with the experience of every succeeding life. The ego is most easily destroyed by devotion, by dwelling on the magnificence of the Lord and by rendering service to others as the children of the Lord. Surrender can be effected only after the perfection of detachment from sensual pleasures accompanied by discrimination between the real and the unreal. The taints of "I" and "Mine" have to be removed by rigorous saadhana; chief among the disciplines being Naamasmarana. When you dwell on the names of the Lord, His Majesty, His Grace, His Potency, His Pervasivness---these get fixed in the consciousness and one's own capacities and capabilities get eclipsed in the Divine. Humility increases and surrender is possible quite easily. This is the very purpose of human existence---to see God and merge in His Glory. All other activities are futile. The Vedas proclaim this to be the final goal of man. The Upanishads declare the path. The Gita illumines it. The saints and sages proclaim its grandeur. Avatars come when people stray from it and get lost in the wilderness and wastes. Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. VII, P. 63-64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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