Importance of Purification-From Sai Baba Org weekly e-newsletter Sai Vichar

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Importance of Purification

 

All great men have emphasized that the body, mind, intellect and ego

have to be purified first for the success of all saadhana. This is

because we are unclean due to the effects of past karma. Moreover,

we are being taught everyday about the lure and desirability of

money, fame, power, and enjoyment. This produces lasting impression

on the subtle body which is beyond mind and intellect and which

survives physical existence. We have to think in different

directions and live a different way of life to smudge the impact of

these unwholesome effects. This different way of thought, action and

life is called Saadhana.

 

The body is purified on account of selfless service and benevolent

acts. This helps in obliterating the impressions of past karmas on

mind. When the mind is sublimated, the seeds of devotion can be sown

and nurtured within it. The barren and soil of selfish thoughts and

deeds is not fit for sowing of seeds of intense love of God. This

must be properly understood by the aspirants. Selfishness is a road

leading in altogether opposite direction than the road to God or

liberation. A man approaches God step by step, when he removes the

pains of others, assists men in distress and knows the God inherent

in others minds.

 

Similarly, it is essential to install the memory and the idol of God

in the heart by incessant recitation of name and meditation on the

form. This enables the subtle body (that outlives physical death) to

wipe off the imprint of selfishness and to replace it by the image

of God.

 

(from Shri Sai Leela, November 1989).