Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - The Unlimited Power of God

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

 

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The Unlimited Power of God

 

If you want a little breeze you may take a hand-fan and wave it so

that you get a little air. On the other hand, when there is a

powerful whirlwind you find very big waves crashing against the

shore of the ocean and even huge trees being uprooted. The breeze

you can get from a hand-fan will be very limited, but the power of

God is tremendous; it is unlimited. Consider some other examples.

When you try to draw water from a well, you can draw only a very

small quantity. But when there is a heavy downpour, streams will

become rushing rivers which join together in one great flood. One

comes from the limited power of man, the other comes from the

unlimited power of God.

 

Take the example of wanting some light in your house. You may light

a candle or switch on an electric lamp. But at dawn when the sun

rises, the whole city and forest will soon be flooded with the sun's

light. The little light of your lamp is very weak compared to the

splendor of the sun, shining magnificently everywhere. Again, this

is the unlimited power of God, compared to the limited power of man.

How can you reach this unlimited power of God? How can the limited

capacity of a human being be transformed into the unlimited capacity

of God? The means is surrender.

 

The Lord has declared in the Gita, "I will destroy all your sins and

raise you to the supreme position which is my own." How can that

happen? The physical world that you see with your human eyes is the

gross aspect of the universe. When this gross aspect takes a subtle

form in the mind you have the subtle universe. And when the mental

takes a still finer and more subtle form in the heart, then you have

the causal universe. The infinite Lord is beyond all these. He is

the biggest of the big, but he takes the form of the smallest of the

small, and installs himself in the very heart of the devotee, deep

in the causal aspect. The wonderful truth is that such a vast,

unlimited and powerful Lord allows himself to be imprisoned in the

heart of the devotee. Here is a story to illustrate this.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita012.html

 

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Sai Baba Gita

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