Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

You may ask: how is it possible to transcend the ego through seva? By saturating with love, work can be transformed into worship. When the work is offered to God, it gets sanctified into pooja (sacramental worship). This makes it free from ego. It is also freed from the earthly desire for success and the earthly fear of failure. You feel that when you have done the work as best as you can, your pooja is accomplished. It is then for Him who has accepted the pooja to confer on you what He considers best. This attitude will make the work nish-kaama (un-attached). Regular practice of this discipline will render the consciousness clear and pure. It will promote chitthashuddhi (pure consciousness). Without this primary equipment how can man ever hope to scale spiritual heights? Almost all the great sages of the past spent the early years of their lives in saadhana that would ensure a pure consciousness. However prospective your career might be, however much you might accumulate the wherewithal of a comfortable life, to whatever heights of authority you might have climbed through the exercise of your intelligence, your gains shall be nil unless your every activity is suffused with the Divine purity inherent in the consciousness.

 

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XIII, Chapter 29.