Sai Baba Gita - Beauty and Joy

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Beauty and Joy

We see that the beauty possessed by a person is transient. It gradually fades

away and, therefore, it cannot give permanent joy. Even a new-born donkey is

very beautiful, but gradually as it grows up it develops a big stomach, gets a

splotchy coat, and becomes ugly to look at. As long as there are no negative

qualities everything looks beautiful. But, whoever be the person or whatever be

the sense-object, you will find that its beauty is limited and, therefore, the

joy derivable from it is also limited. Joy and beauty always go together. What

is the one principle which has permanent joy and permanent beauty within

itself? It is the atma! It never changes; it has no modification. In fact, it

has no form at all. Beauty and joy are its form.

Although joy naturally emanates from the core of your heart, you think that you

are deriving joy from the sense-objects and the sensory organs. But this is not

so. All joy comes from within you and you have deluded yourself into thinking

that it comes from something outside. The scriptures speak of the ethereal joy

that emanates from the heavenly world of the creator. The joy which can be

experienced through the contact of the senses with the sense objects is

extremely small when compared to that creative joy. The sensory joy may be

described as a drop in the ocean of bliss that is the creator's joy. But even

this vast ocean of joy experienced by the creator of the universe, is itself as

small as an atom when compared with the boundless joy that radiates from within

your spiritual heart. That is the primary source of all joy. It is the joy of

joys. The heart can be compared to a most splendorous and effulgent light which

shines everywhere. Try to understand this brilliant

spiritual light, which is ever luminous and all pervading, and is your inner truth.

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