Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - Worshipping the Formless God in your Heart

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

October 24, 2003

 

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Worshipping the Formless God in your Heart

 

Traditionally, in the worship of the God with form, you may become

engaged in many types of ritual worship. You may offer flowers to

the Lord, you may bathe his statue with holy water, you may burn

incense or use other forms of worship. These will give you some

satisfaction. Worshipping the Lord's form externally with various

sacred articles yields satisfaction. But, once you establish God

inside your heart, then you will worship him through the flowers of

your heart. After body consciousness and the delusion associated

with it is destroyed, then the divinity that you previously

worshipped externally in form, with flowers and various articles of

external worship, will now become established in its formless aspect

in the depths of your heart, and you will want to worship it with

the sweet flowers of your feelings. This will bring true unchanging

joy.

 

As long as you are worshipping the Lord with form, you will use

physical flowers such as roses, marigolds and jasmine. These are all

impermanent and the body which performs this worship is also

impermanent. But if you want to worship the formless God in your

heart, then the flowers are different. Those flowers will be

permanent. Those flowers are the noble qualities that you develop in

your heart and offer to the Lord. They are the flowers of

nonviolence, of sense restraint, of truth, of patience and

forbearance, of perseverance, of love and compassion, of charity and

sacrifice. All these flowers are meant for inner worship. To elevate

yourself to the worship of the formless principle, you will have to

develop these flowers of the heart and use them in your worship.

Then you will experience the ineffable and unchanging joy of the

spirit, and enter the path that takes you home to your divine source.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

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