Sai Baba Gita Reading for Today - The Sweetness of the Servant Path

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Sai Baba Gita Reading for TodayDecember 27, 2003

 

The Sweetness of the Servant Path

There is an extraordinary joy which you obtain when you immerse yourself in the

attitude of being the servant of the Lord. You soon become filled with delight

from having imbibed the Lord's sweetness, and you never want to leave that

happy state. You come to the conclusion that if ever you were to move on from

this feeling of being the servant to the state of "I am he", you would not be

able to continue to enjoy the consummate sweetness of the Lord. Sugar does not

know its own sweetness. You may be concerned that if you were to become one

with the sugar you would no longer be able to enjoy its sweetness. Since you

partake of the Lord's sweetness in the servant stage, you may prefer to remain

in this stage so that you will always be able to taste the nectarine sweetness

of the Lord, rather than being one with him.

For example, Hanuman, the great devotee of God, had the experience of extreme

bliss arising from his unwavering attitude of "I am the servant of Lord Rama".

But how long can such a feeling last? It can last only as long as you have the

grace of the Lord and are near to him. If you were to ever become separated

from him, then in all likelihood you would experience extreme anguish.

In the stage of qualified non-dualism, the question of suffering does not arise

at all, because in that exalted state you are unceasingly with the Lord, and

there is no possibility of experiencing any separation or suffering. In the

servant stage there is the possibility of separation between the Lord and the

servant, but in the second stage of qualified non-dualism there cannot be any

discontinuity in the bliss since no possibility of separation can arise.

Source:http://www.atmapress.com/saibabagita/saigita089.html

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