Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - The World as a River of Truth and Untruth

October 31, 2003

Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

October 31, 2003

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The World as a River of Truth and Untruth

That is why the world has been likened to a river, where reality has

become associated with unreality, or change. You can consider it a

stream of changing truth, a truth which is qualified and not fully

true. The world is a combination of pure truth, which remains the

same and never changes, and untruth, which deals with things that

are constantly changing. The wisdom teachings have described this

state as truth-untruth, namely, a mixture or combination wherein

both truth and untruth coexist. Spiritual practice is the process

whereby you separate the truth from the untruth, and retain the

truth. You see the illusion that the world exists separately from

yourself and God for what it is, namely untruth. Once recognized as

untruth you are no longer deluded by it, and the truth, which is the

unity of God, man and world, stands revealed.

Ignorance, nature, world, illusion, mind, maya are all synonymous.

They are all the illusory power of God. Thinking that things exist

which do not really exist, and coming under their spell, is

illusion. A saint summarized this as, "God is true but the world is

false". You must understand this statement correctly. What it means

is that our mistaken perception and experience of the world is

untrue. The world itself, in essence, is true. God is the one,

unchanging basis of this world of change. When you examine this in

some depth you discover that the world is truly not world, but the

divinity itself.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Sai Baba Gita

Compiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma Press

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