Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - Inner Inquiry - The Path of Wisdom

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

October 27, 2003

 

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Inner Inquiry - The Path of Wisdom

 

Meditation is the steady, uninterrupted practice of contemplating

God. This is the principal spiritual activity taught in the Gita.

Thinking of God now and then cannot be called meditation. Meditation

is thinking of God at all times, under all circumstances. It is a

continuous, unceasing process.

 

Embodiments of Love,

 

The constant remembrance of God is the method in which you

continuously keep turning the mind inwards to become united with the

indwelling Lord. This can correctly be called meditation. Any

practice that you engage in periodically is a concentration

practice. Such a practice will usually focus on a chosen object and

be associated with a particular place and time. True meditation, on

the other hand, goes on continuously. It is completely free of all

objects and phenomena and completely transcends the element of place

and time. Therefore, in the Gita, the ongoing practice of meditation

has been described as superior to any type of periodic practice.

 

But, there is a practice even superior to meditation. The ultimate

spiritual practice is the development of wisdom. Wisdom emerges from

inner inquiry. It is the spiritual practice of looking deep into the

essential nature of everything. If you faithfully pursue this

inquiry, you will gradually reach the supreme state of peace and

bliss. This is the unique goal of human life, a goal which all

mankind will one day achieve.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita028.html

 

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Sai Baba Gita

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