Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - You are not a Sinner - You are God

December 26, 2003

Sai Baba Gita Reading for TodayDecember 26, 2003

You are not a Sinner - You are God

As part of their religious observances, people will sometimes say in their

prayers, "O Lord, I am a sinner, my soul is full of sin, I have been performing

so many sinful acts." But who is this person who is sinning? Can there ever be

anyone who is separate from the Lord? Can such a one exist? These declarations

about sinning and being a sinner are not good practices for devotees to engage

in. Rather you should think, "In truth, I am God. I am not different from God.

I am peace itself. I am love eternal. I am pure bliss without end." Keeping

such lofty ideas and thoughts in your mind is the best way to reach the goal.

In the Gita, in the list of noble qualities that a devotee should possess, the

Lord started with, "Be without hatred towards any living being." If you treat

happiness and misery with an equal mind then the question of hatred does not

arise at all. If you recognize that the same transcendental principle is

embodied in all human beings as well as in all creatures, then there cannot be

any room for hatred. If you realize that the one divinity resides equally in

all, then how could you ever hate another? Where is the other? In this context,

you might ask for whom the phrase, "Be without hatred towards any living being"

is intended. Is it meant for those who have realized the one transcendental

principle which exists equally in themselves and in everyone else? No, it is

obviously not intended for them. This injunction is given for the sake of those

who have not yet realized this great truth of the unity of all beings.

Sai Baba GitaCompiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma

Presshttp://www.atmapress.com - ISBN: 0963844903Online Edition:

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