Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - True Joy

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

October 19, 2003

 

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True Joy

 

Consider the feelings you get from singing devotional songs at a

spiritual function. If a song is being sung that is not very

familiar to you or whose melody is not especially pleasing to your

ear or if you are not drawn to the particular aspect of the divinity

to which it is being sung, you might find that you have very little

real feeling towards the song. You merely follow the song

perfunctorily with your lips. What a great difference between that

and a song which you love, which comes from the very core of your

heart, emerging freely, spontaneously, with a great deal of joy,

filling you with rapture and devotion for God.

 

In the same way, there is a vast difference between the temporary

joys you derive from this apparent world and its transitory objects

and phenomena, and the true joy that emerges from the depths of your

heart. The latter joy is totally different from the temporary

satisfaction you get from worldly things. This deep joy coming from

the heart is associated with truth. It is permanent. It is detached

from all transient worldly concerns. It represents the unity of the

spirit. For this joy there is no possibility of change. There is

nothing that can be added to true joy. It is full and complete in

itself.

 

True joy comes from equanimity. Do not be carried away by or attach

any importance to worldly things. Use your time and effort to

control the vagaries of the mind and develop mental steadiness.

Equal-mindedness; means that you remain unaffected by victory or

defeat, by profit or loss, by joy or sorrow. Accept whatever

happens, whatever comes your way, as the gift of God, to be enjoyed

with great satisfaction, regarding it as a gift of love given to you

for your own good. When your heart is not swayed by worldly things,

when you treat all people and all things with equal mindedness, then

you will experience true joy. Then your heart will be filled with

feelings of love and satisfaction, and you will know the true joy of

devotion.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita020.html

 

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