1958: Discrimination and Detachment
Teachings to treasure, teachings that transform.
In this auspicious year 2015 commemorating the 90th birthday of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, we offer a compilation of key messages from the over 140 discourses in the month of July, including Guru Poornima Days between the years 1958 and 2009.
1958: Discrimination and Detachment
Discrimination and detachment are the twin talents given
exclusively to humans. Discrimination instructs
you how to choose your avocations and your associates. It tells you the
relative importance of objects and ideals. Detachment saves you from too much
attachment and injects a sense of relief, at times of elation or despair.
The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood,
scandalising, finding fault with others, and excessive articulation. These have
to be avoided if there has to be peace (santhi) for the individual as
well as for society. The bond of brotherhood will be tightened if people speak
less and speak sweet. That is why silence was prescribed as a vow for spiritual
aspirants by the spiritual texts. Practise moderation in speech.
Prema must again transform all relationships — social,
economic, educational, professional, family, religious, legal, and others. The
sense of equality that everyone is the repository of the divine Essence must
transmute social and individual behaviour.
The Grace of the Lord is
always flowing like the electric current through the wire. The bulb is the
spiritual exercises you perform; the home is your heart. Come to Me gladly;
dive into the sea and discover its depth; there is no use dipping near the
shore and swearing that the sea is shallow and has no pearls. Dive deep and you
will secure your desire.
Well, man is divine,
take it from Me. He is really here on a holy mission, for a divine purpose. To
consider one as mean or weak or sinful is a great mistake. That is itself a
great sin. A person must earn their birthright, namely, peace (santhi).
Restlessness is an unnatural state. One’s real nature is peace.
There are three types of intellect, according to the
predominance of one or other of the three qualities (gunas): (1)
inertia or sloth (thamas), which confuses truth with the untruth and
takes untruth as truth; (2) passion or activity (rajas), which, like a
pendulum, swings from one to the other, hovering between the two, unable to
distinguish between them; and (3) purity or serenity (sathwa), which
knows which is truth and which is untruth.
Eat well, so that your
physical faculties might grow and the good physique will in turn develop your
intelligence more fully. Devotion (bhakthi) leads to power (sakthi),
and power will grant skill (yukthi). The skill will help you to fix your
attachment (rakthi) on the proper objects, and your devotion thus
promoted finally results in liberation (mukthi).
Points to
Ponder
·
What
can we do to learn to practice silence and moderation in speech?
·
“It is no use
indulging in arguments and disputations; one who clamours aloud has not grasped
the truth, believe Me.”
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