Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

The color of glasses you wear determines the color in which things appear to you. If you wear red glasses, everything will appear red. If you wear green glasses, everything will appear green. Pure thoughts make the world appear as pure. If you view things with prema, with a loving heart, the whole world, the whole creation will appear to you as a reflection of prema.

 

The selfishness fouling our love is veiling Divinity from our vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling Divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; it is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.

 

What is the way to overcome or sublimate this selfishness? For this, first, we should have a proper evaluation, a proper understanding of our body, senses, mind, etc. They are not ourselves. In ignorance we identify ourselves with them. They are our vestures, they are like the dress we wear. The body is not we, the sensory organs are not we; the mind is not we; They are merely our vestures. That is why we say, "this is my body, etc." We never say "I am the body". We should therefore try to realize that we are really apart. The self that is apart from these is the real entity in us, and we are that.

 

The physical body is constituted of the five elements, which are material in nature, and it has therefore to fall off and disintegrate one day or other. The one that survives and abides eternally is only the 'dehi' (the resident) in the body. The resident of the body has neither birth nor death. He is the Aathman and is an aspect and Form of God Himself. The body is just an Upaadhi, a vesture of the Aathman.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XV, Chapter 8.