The Essence of the Spiritual Life

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Om Sai Jai Sai Jai Jai Sai

 

The Essence of the Spiritual Life

 

That " I " is everywhere, manifesting Itself as everything. But in the

human being there is a peculiarity. That " I " manifests as self-

awareness. Unfortunately that self-awareness is not an awareness of

the grandeur, the unknowableness of the " I " , but rather, that self-

awareness identifies with a body and mind. This we call ego. It means

we feel separate.

 

The word hell comes from an old English word meaning to be walled off

from. So hell means to be separate. On the other hand, the word

heaven comes from the same root as the word harmony. So hell means

separation and heaven means harmony. Thus, when the principle of self-

awareness in the human being identifies with the body, it feels

separate, and that is hell. When it identifies with the true " I " —I am

That—it is in harmony, it is in heaven.

 

The whole purpose of the spiritual life is to convert this self-

awareness in the human being from a mistaken awareness that " I am the

body " to a true awareness that " I am That. " How is this done? It is

not just enough to discover this truth intellectually, nor even to

feel this truth, we must actually become this truth. That means we

can no longer assert the separate " I " . The separate " I " has to

surrender to the true " I " ; it has to take refuge in the true " I " ; it

has to follow the true " I " . There is nothing else to the spiritual

life, in the final analysis, except this.

 

Following the ego keeps us in hell and compounds the hell. When we

repent, which means to turn around and go in the other direction, we

surrender our individuality, our separateness, and exchange it for

harmony with the Whole. This is spiritual life. And if our spiritual

life doesn't contain this element of surrender, if it doesn't contain

this movement from separation to harmony, it perhaps explains why we

don't feel that we're making the progress we had hoped for.

 

Therefore, the essence of the spiritual life is moving from being

separate to being in harmony. The ego doesn't usually want to do it

until it has suffered so much that it sees that there is no other

way. Thus, often suffering can be a great blessing. But we needn't

suffer if we have the humility to see that the essence of the

spiritual life is in surrendering our individuality and taking refuge

in God, that it is in surrendering our sense of separation, so that

we are in harmony.

 

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Live like a human being not an animal ok dear

 

 

Baba Said....

 

" Other kinds of charities are imperfect without this Annadana

(donation of food) "

 

Jai Sai Ram

Swamy Mahadevan

Bow to Shri Sai-Peace be to all

Baba Bless you ever!!!