Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - The three Worlds and the Lord Beyond

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for TodayDecember 24, 2003

 

The three Worlds and the Lord Beyond

Krishna taught in the Gita that there are three worlds, the physical, the mental

and the causal. The mental world is a subtle form of the physical world, and the

causal world is an even subtler form of the mental world. Of these three

inter-penetrating worlds of your waking, dream and deep sleep consciousness,

the causal is the subtlest. It is all-pervasive. But beyond all these is the

infinite Lord, the supreme principle of divinity. This divine principle is the

subtlest of the subtle, the smallest of the small, but also the biggest of the

big. Among the mighty ones, the divinity is the mightiest of all. There can be

nothing greater. Seek him. Install him in your heart and be saved. Know that

that mightiest of the mighty is your very self. This is the truth of divinity.

This is your truth.

To reach the principle of Godhead, which is the goal supreme, you have to start

your journey with the first stage of the path, wherein you consider yourself to

be the servant or the messenger of God. This is the stage of dualism. Gradually

you enter the stage of qualified non-dualism, the second major step on the

spiritual path. Here you experience the divinity within yourself, in your own

heart. At this stage you identify yourself very closely with the Lord. You will

have the feeling, "God is within me. He is the one I truly am. I am he. I am

he." Then, as you continue still further on the spiritual path, all duality

will disappear completely and you will be left with only the I, the pure self,

without any modifications or limitations.

This whole journey is a little like the healing process that takes place with a

wound. Initially, a protective layer of hard skin forms over the wound.

Eventually this covering falls off by itself as the wound heals. When both the

feeling that you are the servant of the Lord and the feeling that you are one

with the Lord, both of which cover the pure I, fall off, then you will be in

the final stage of non-dualism. Then you are immersed in the one truth, I am I.

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