Sai Baba Gita - Sense Objects can only give Temporary Joy

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Sense Objects can only give Temporary Joy

These likes and dislikes that you now feel, are just temporary phenomena. They

are not permanent. Consider for a moment that at some time you felt very

hungry. Now suppose that you were served some food which you found very tasty.

What made this food so delicious? If you examine this question carefully you

would conclude that it was your hunger that made everything taste so good. As

long as you were hungry you found the meal that had been served to you to be

most delectable. But after your hunger was satisfied, even if the most

sumptuous delicacies were placed in front of you, they would not have appealed

to you. When you are hungry, ordinary food will taste quite good, giving you

great joy. But once your hunger is satisfied, even the most delicious food is

not at all tasty to you. The only way that you can understand this change is

that all these likes and dislikes emanate directly from you, the individual.

They do not come from the objects as such. All your feelings of joy and

sorrow emanate from the inner being, not from the external objects.

Ordinary people think that the joy or pain which they get from being with people

whom they like or dislike comes from those people; but it is not so. It is one's

own likes and dislikes which are responsible for one's joys and sorrows. It may

be observed that when people have a strong liking for others, holding them very

dear, then whatever be the attitude or the actions of that person, they will

still like them all the same. What is the reason for this unshakable fidelity,

this affectionate regard one may have for another person, despite a number of

unsavory things which that person may be saying or doing? The reason is that

when you like someone, the things which that person says and does will appear

sweet to you. When you consider a person as very dear to you, then you feel

that you love that person very much. This quality which you call 'love' is

really a feeling of attachment in you that you are directing towards the other

individual. In such an attachment both the love and

the joy which appear to be present, originate only from you. Whether or not the

other person has similar feelings, the feelings which you actually experience

come from within you, only. They are not a part of the other person, at all. A

similar thing was told by a great sage to his wife, in the ancient scriptures.

The sage said to his wife, "Dear one, you do not love me for my sake but for

your own sake. Everything you love and hold dear, you love only for the sake of

the atma, your highest self;. The atma is the dearest of all, and it is for its

sake that someone is dear to you. These feelings you have for others are all

just manifestations of that great love you feel for your own true self."

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Sai Baba Gita, Compiled and edited by Al Drucker - Published by Atma Press -

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