Satya Sai Baba

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There is a tendency to interpret renunciation as merely giving up

worldly attachments. Renunciation truly means attaining perfect

equanimity. People may criticize you or praise you, take them both

with a sense of equanimity. One may try to harm you while another may

try to do you a good turn; treat both situations with equanimity. In

one business venture, you may incur a loss while in another you may

make a profit; treat them both alike. Equanimity is the hallmark of

yoga (spiritual attainment).

 

 

 

There are two forms of Love. One binds you to God. The other binds you

to the world. The mind is responsible for either of these states. The

mind can be compared to a lock. If you turn the key to the right, the

lock opens. If you turn the key to the left, it gets locked. The heart

is the key to the lock of the mind. If you turn the key towards the

world, you have attachment and bondage; when you turn it towards God,

you achieve liberation. That is why, it has been declared that the

mind is the cause of human bondage or liberation. When it is filled

with wisdom, it makes a man a saint. When it is associated with

ignorance, it turns into an agent of death.

 

 

 

Life is like a train journey. You have a long way to go. You must learn to make

your journey comfortable. Do not carry heavy and unwanted luggage with you. That

will make the journey miserable. Similarly, do not indulge in fault-finding and

picking quarrels with others. Don't desire to have the best things for

yourselves only. Share with others around, the good things you are given. Anger,

hatred, envy, jealousy, these are the heavy luggage I ask you avoid taking with

you in the journey.

 

 

 

Do not exaggerate the importance of things that have material utility; they fade

even as you grasp them by the hand. Search for " Sath " - that which suffers no

change. Search for " Chith " - the state of consciousness, Search for " Anandha " -

the bliss that emanates from Prema, Divine Love. This love has no blemish of

attachment, is unaffected by gusts of passion, is pure, and free from egoism or

the desire to possess. Then alone can you experience the Light, and illumine the

path for others. Be like bees hovering on the Glory of the Lord, sucking the

nectar of Grace, silently and joyfully.