Sai Baba Gita - Steady your Mind and your Body

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Steady your Mind and your Body

When you are sitting, the posture should be erect... not like that of an old

person, all bent over. You should be steady and straight. You should not go to

the other extreme either, of raising your head up; nor should you turn your

head to one side or the other. For meditation, it is very important to have an

erect sitting posture. If you were to imagine a line going vertically down

through the top of your head, it should go straight to the base of your spine,

the center of subtle energy at the bottom of your spine. That way the entire

spine will be in proper alignment. The kundalini power will then be able to

travel unimpeded from the lowest energy vortex to the highest at the crown of

your head.

Therefore, keep the body steady and straight. If from youth it is bent, then by

the time you become old you will be completely bent over. Be it your head, your

neck or your torso, there should be no bend. This is extremely important for

students, and equally so for devotees. Therefore, I will be telling you this

quite often.

Why are you studying at all? What is the goal of your studies? Truly, you are

studying in order to steady your mind and body. Except when you are playing,

you should not be moving too much. Even when you are talking or when you are

singing, you should be steady. In this way, right from childhood, if you can

keep your body under control, it will be very useful to you as an instrument to

achieve meditation. Krishna gave these instructions to Arjuna in the Gita, in

order to turn Arjuna into an ideal representative of mankind, one who would

serve as a model for all of humanity. Krishna told him, "Arjuna, I am taking

you as my instrument so that by your example you may teach all of mankind."

Arjuna became an ideal person. Since his wavering mentality was due to the rajas

and tamas qualities, Krishna told Arjuna to systematically rid himself of these

two qualities, and offer them to the Lord. Eventually, he would even have to

give up being controlled by the third quality, the satva quality. In the second

chapter of the Gita, the chapter on the wisdom teachings, Krishna explained a

number of ways in which the three qualities that have been discussed here, can

be conquered. When you have completely expunged them from your mind, you will

become transformed into a sage, a wise being, one who is steeped in the highest

wisdom.

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