Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - Wherever you look you see your One Self

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for TodayDecember 25, 2003

 

Wherever you look you see your One Self

When you declare, "I am he, I am God," there is still some duality, because

there are still two entities, I and God. So, this is still not complete

non-dualism. At the very beginning, when you say, "O Lord, I am your servant,"

the Lord is separate and the servant is separate, and their status is clearly

different. On the other hand, when you say, "I am God," although there is still

a trace of duality, the distinction is not one of separate subject and object

but more like seeing the reflection or image of yourself in a mirror.

Whenever people are different, when there are many separate entities, then there

will also be many different images or reflections. But in the stage of qualified

non-dualism, you see only your own image everywhere, because you are all there

is. You are the one self being reflected as many images, just like the one sun

is seen as separate images in a number of different water-filled pots. So, in

the stage of qualified non-dualism, you are alone; there is none other. The

only thing that still comes between you and the divinity is the mirror. You

constantly perceive your own reflection, and so you see yourself as very near

and very dear to the Lord - face to face with him.

But when you perceive only the one God who is all-pervasive, then where is the

need for any image at all? Can there be a place where he is not? When the

entire world is the mansion of the omnipresent Lord, then where should you look

to find the door to enter his mansion? If there were a separate street and a

separate house then there would have to be a door which opens onto the street;

but in truth, there is no street at all. When the all-pervasive Lord is

everywhere, how can there be any special place where you must seek him to find

him? No, there is no special place where he resides.

Once you realize that he is everywhere at all times, then the true perception of

the divinity is not that of an object whose reflection is seen in various places

but the realization that there is only you, the one immortal self, abiding

everywhere, present in everything in all its fullness. This all-pervasive

perception of the divinity as the one without a second, is called non-dualism.

Source:http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita087.html

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