Peace through sense
The Times of India,
Mumbai Edition, Page 2 - Friday, March 14, 2003 |
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By Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba
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the scriptures
refer to the human body as the temple and the Indwelling Spirit as the
God residing in that temple. Even a mere intellectual understanding of
this fact is enough to make you happy. But you would be happier still,
when you put this understanding into practice in your daily life. You
should try to seek continuous satisfaction and fulfillment by basing
even your mundane activities on spiritual values. Whatever be the
activity with which you are preoccupied in Society, you must be
steadfast in holding on to the spiritual ideal. This alone will bestow
lasting Peace.
The sense organs should
be sanctified by offering all the actions performed through them to
God. You can surely achieve that sanctified state, provided you have
strong determination. Unfortunately, man does not evince such a firm
determination and tenacity of purpose in respect of spiritual matters,
as he does for the sake of mundane things. Man is prepared to make any
amount of effort to undertake a journey of millions of miles into
outer space, but he hardly ever endeavours to go even an inch within,
towards his Inner Self. What is the use of intelligence and worldly
acquisitions when they cannot give Atma Shanthi (the untrammelled
peace of the Atma or the Spirit)? God alone can confer such enduring
peace on man.
As far as possible, avoid
causing harm or pain to others. As you sow, so you reap. Whenever you
feel disturbed by a sense of anger, envy, pride, jealousy and the
like, become alert and resort to the contemplation of the Lord.
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Satya Sai Baba
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You can experience Bliss
only when you have learnt to control the Mind. To control the Mind,
you have to engage in good deeds. As you go on performing good deeds,
you will develop good thoughts and feelings; and when you have good
thoughts, you will acquire true understanding of the the Real.
Sanctify the time given to you with good thoughts |
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and good actions. To
achieve this, you have to cultivate the company of the good, and all
of this, in due course, would lead to liberation. Filling your Mind
with thoughts of God and engaging in good actions is true Sadhana.
People claim to spend
hours in meditation. But of what use is it if there is no
concentration of the Mind? Far better it is to render social service
or participate in Bhajans, and through such means subject the Mind to
some discipline. This also is how work gets transformed into Worship.
When you dedicate all your thoughts and actions to God, your actions
automatically get purified. You can experience God through the
performance of your duties and proper actions. The Bhagavad Gita says
that the Kshetra (namely the body) and the Kshetrajna {namely the Atma)
together constitute the human personality. Simliarly,
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