Golden words of Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba - 89.

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89. Purify the Mind

 

You must realize that your service activities are done for the sake of your own

spiritual purification and uplift. All actions should be done with a view to

purify the mind and remove all the dross from it. It is wrong to think that

through actions alone you can attain liberation or redeem your lives. Actions

have to be done solely for the purification of the Chitta (consciousness).

Without purity of consciousness, life cannot be spiritualized. Human birth is

the result of Karma (action). Right action leads to Dharma (Righteousness).

Through Dharma, the Divine has to be realized.

 

It is only when the mind realises that all this is Maya (illusion) that it will

draw back its feelers from the sensory world and give up its worldly, selfish

attitude. The nature of the mind is to waver, hesitate and flutter in its search

for happiness and peace. When it realises that the objects it runs after are

transitory and meaningless, it gets suddenly ashamed and disillusioned. Then it

begins to follow the Inner Consciousness.

 

Treat your mind as a little boy. Bring up this boy lovingly so that it becomes

wiser day by day. Caress it in to good ways making it aware that objects which

are seen are products of one's illusion. Remove all its fears and foibles. Focus

its attention on the Ultimate Goal only. Never deal forcibly with the mind. It

will yield only to tenderness and patient handling. Correct its waywardness by

inculcating the attitude of renunciation.

When the mind gives up attachment to the external objects, when it is filled

with remorse, renunciation and understanding, when it is saturated with

repentance for past foolishness, when it fosters progressive qualities of head

and heart, then it truly becomes fit for merging with the divinity. In that

state, it contemplates on divinity alone.