Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - Reaching the Abiding Peace of the Immortal Sel

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today

November 23, 2003

 

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Reaching the Abiding Peace of the Immortal Self

 

But even then you should not be satisfied. You should strive to

reach the final and highest state. There should be no rest, no peace

of mind or contentment until you reach the state of complete

mergence with God and the realization of his oneness. These days you

are only aspiring to obtain rest for your body and trying to get a

little peace of mind. But this is not good. You have to reach the

abiding peace of the atma. This is your true self, the immortal

self, the one universal self. When you become reunited with it, you

become peace itself. Your individual self has to merge with the

universal self. Then the long journey is complete and permanent

bliss is realized.

 

A river is born from the ocean and ends in the ocean. But how did

the river originate? Initially some of the water of the ocean turned

into clouds. Once the ocean water becomes a cloud there is

separation and duality. Clouds are separate; ocean is separate. The

water of the ocean is saltish. After it turns into a cloud it

becomes sweet. But now the water which has become a cloud comes in

the form of rain. You can say it is a rain of love, because this

rain water becomes a river and with great enthusiasm rushes to

rejoin the ocean. This may be compared to the state wherein a great

anguish and aspiration develops to get nearer and nearer to the

final goal.

 

When you are in that state you yearn with all your heart to reach

the native land from which you have become separated. In the case of

the water in the form of a river, it is impelled to merge back into

the ocean from whence it came. Only then will it have reached its

goal. Such is the pure non-dualistic state of total mergence with

the source.

 

You are born as a human being and you have lived part of your life

as an ordinary human being. But you have chosen to take up the path

of spiritual life. You find yourself seeking out the company of

spiritually-minded people. You find yourself listening to the great

scriptural stories describing the sacred characteristics of the

Lord. But now, you find that this is not enough. You yearn to have a

direct vision of the Lord. Even then, you are not satisfied with

just that. Merely having had the opportunity to see and talk with

the Lord you still do not find that your happiness lasts. But when

you finally get fully merged and united with him, then you gain the

complete fulfillment you have been seeking. Then you are one with

the unending peace and bliss that is the Lord. This was the teaching

that Krishna imparted to Arjuna on the battlefield.

 

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 

Source:

http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita055.html

 

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Sai Baba Gita

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