Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - God is the Master of Time

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

October 29, 2003

 

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God is the Master of Time

 

In order to experience the principle of complete surrender you need

to become aware of time, and how it exercises total power over all

that is changing, and yet, how it is utterly powerless over the

unchanging divinity, which is its master. God is not subject to

time. He not only is not under the spell of time, but he keeps time

under his control. The one who is bound by time is man; the one who

transcends time is God. The one who is mortal is man; the one who is

immortal is God. Only when you take shelter in divinity will you be

able to transcend this element of time. Time consumes man, whereas

God consumes time itself. It is time which is responsible for man's

progress or man's decline, for the promotion of his good or his fall

into evil, for his earning merit or storing demerit. Therefore, in

the ancient scriptures we find this prayer:

 

O God, you are the very embodiment of time. Please, help me to

sanctify my life and spend all my time in remembrance of you, so

that I may safely reach your lotus feet.

The entire world is inextricably enmeshed in the grip of time. It is

not possible to fight against this element of time. Time does not

wait for anyone. You are bound by time, time is not bound by you.

Time can be compared to a great flowing river. All living beings are

washed away by this flow of time. If you are washed away by a flood

you cannot take protection and shelter in someone or something which

is also being washed away. You, as well as the people and objects in

which you try to find security, are all being washed away by the

flood of time. If you seek to gain protection from something that is

itself being washed away, it is like a blind person following

another blind person. In the end, they both get lost. But if you

were to be helped by someone who is standing securely on the bank,

you would surely be saved.

 

The one on the bank who is not caught up in the flood of time is

God. If you take refuge in God you will be able to free yourself

from all the troubles and problems associated with time. God has

proclaimed the principle of surrender and emphasized its importance

by telling man, "O man, you are being washed away by the flood of

time. The only one who can shelter you is myself. Take refuge in me,

and I will save you." When you obey this divine command and offer

yourself, your wealth, your property, your entire family at the

Lord's feet and surrender yourself completely, then you will surely

be saved.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita030.html

 

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