Golden words of Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba - 61.

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61. Atma is eternal

 

What you judge as joy or sorrow is only like a passing cloud, which cannot

affect the splendor of the Sun or Moon. Know that such emotions follow one

another when the wheel of life turns round from moment to moment. The sea has

water that cannot quench thirst, but it has also pearl and coral. You have to

get toughened by the hammer strokes of joy and sorrow until you are unaffected

by the vicissitudes of fortune. The Atman (Self) alone is eternal and

unchanging.

 

Destroy Ajnana (ignorance) by means of instruction in the knowledge of the Atma.

Strengthen the interest you are already endowed with towards the realisation of

Brahman (God). Give up the attraction for evanescent and the false, the mirages

created by fancy and fantasy. Turn your attention inwards, away from the

external world.

 

You are born again and again, seeing, doing and experiencing what you have

already seen, done, and experienced. You should realise that you are born not to

be born again. You should see and experience that by which your life will find

fulfilment. Once you have experienced the Atma, you do not need to experience

anything else. That is the oneness of Atmic principle. In order to experience

this eternal principle, you should give up body attachment and understand the

truth that the Atma in you is the same as the one in others.

 

Difficulties come and go like passing clouds. You don't need to worry about

them. Keep your vision fixed on the sun. Sometimes, clouds cover the sun. But,

have patience. When the clouds move away, the sun will be visible again. In the

same manner, the clouds of worldly delusion come in the way of Atmic vision. In

such situations, you should not let your mind waver. Have patience. The 'clouds'

will recede and the 'sun' will reappear in all its brilliance.