Sai Baba's Teachings - Human Values / Right Conduct

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Sai Baba's Teachings - Human Values / Right Conduct

 

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Right Conduct

 

What is dharma? Practicing what you preach, doing as you say it has

to be done, keeping precept and practice in line. Earn virtuously;

yearn piously; live in the fear of God, live for reaching God; that

is dharma.

 

What exactly is your duty? Let me summarize it for you. First, tend

your parents with love and reverence and gratitude. Second, speak

the truth and act virtuously. Third, whenever you have a few moments

to spare, repeat the name of the Lord with form in your mind.

Fourth, never indulge in talking ill of others or try to discover

faults in others. And finally, do not cause pain to others in any

form.

 

Every profession, every stage of life, each sex, each period of life

as fixed by age . childhood, boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle

age, old age . has duties and obligations, which set the norm and

guide the individual to benefit himself and society.

 

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in

liking what one has to do. Whatever work you have to do, you should

do it with pleasure and liking.

 

Your conscience knows the real source of joy; it will prod you

towards the right path. Your business is to take it as a guide and

not disobey it every time it contradicts your fancy.

 

The body is the temple of God. In every body, God is installed,

whether the owner of the body recognizes it or not. It is God that

inspires you to do good acts and warns you against the bad. Listen

to that voice. Obey that voice and you will not come to any harm.

When you travel towards God, whoever objects has to be bypassed.

Prahlada went against his father, Vibhisana went against his

brother, Parasurama had to harm his own mother, Meera could not obey

her husband. They stuck to the path of God and broke through all

those who opposed them.

 

Do all work as actors in a play, keeping your identity separate and

not attached to your personality or your role. Remember that the

whole thing is just a play and the Lord has assigned you a part. Act

well your heart; there all your duty ends. He has designed the play

and He enjoys it.

 

Dharma is characterized by holiness, peace, truth, and fortitude.

Dharma is yoga, union, merger; it is Sathya {truth}, Its attributes

are justice, sense control, sense of honor, love, dignity, goodness,

meditation, sympathy and nonviolence. such is dharma that persists

through the ages. It leads one on to universal love and unity.

 

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