When you realise that God is not outside of you and separate from you, then you gain self-confidence. Then there is love, there is peace, there is truth and there is God. So first there must be self-confidence and love of God. What are you thinking about now? You are thinking about the body, but the body is just a water bubble. The body is just a dress, only a dress.
Devotee: Swami, you say that everything is God, but isn't the body also God? If everything is God, then the body must also be God?
Baba: You are asking about the body. You are thinking about the body, not of God. If you only think of God, then, for you, there will be only God. But now you are thinking of the body. The body is an instrument; it is made of matter; and matter is always changing. The world also is always changing, but God is never changing. God is the one unchanging spirit.
Sathya Sai Vahini
But if everything is God, body is also God, on that level the intellect cannot function, because we have made everything look only one way and generalized it.
God is not changing, the body is always changing, it is not a question of everything, but a question of no change.
God is light, the body is matter and therefore dark. Light and darkness can never be together. Where light is, there is no darkness, in darkness is no light.
Why the mind thinks - everything is God and doesn't go further, thinking stops, enquiry stops, it makes discrimination impossible?
We say something to someone and get the answer, everything is God, it seems the answer for everything, but at the same time it shows that this person has no answer, it is only superficial.
If I go on observing 'everything is not that' - not God and in the end what remains it 'that' only, but it has no name, no form and it is not manifested and 'that' is God.
In thinking of God only, I get aware of what he is not to get to the reality of what he is.
Everything which is changing, everything on the manifested level is 'not that', because it is not about God's manifestation, but it is about realization that God is not limited therefore, different from all what is limited. God is an absolute reality, everything on the sense level is relative reality. Everything relative is 'not that' to get to the experience of the 'eternal that'. Everything in the object is not that to get to the subject which is that.
If we tell, everything is God, also body is God, we ask the wrong question.
It is not about God on an intellectual level, it is about experience. On the relative level we cannot experience the absolute reality which is the only real existence.
To get the experience of it we have to be aware what is not real, all what is limited, to get to reality, what is not limited - the experience of it.
We have to stop seeing it as intellectual concept. It is not about getting lost in the thought, but he is everything, what now?
That sounds really like black and white, what now, like with my ex. We have to stay on the reality level.
What we see around is limited and therefore it cannot be God. We have to make the experience first and get aware of duality. The relative level he is not, to find the absolute and unchanging reality of our own observer.
It is the observer which gets lost in the relative appearance, if we are not aware of it. If we just tell - God is everything, it is not really fault, but also not right, because we get lost in multiplicity and cannot even start the process. It depends the level of consciousness.
First is duality and the aim is the experience.
All what is limited he is not, and we have to constantly be aware of it, every moment to not get lost in it, because every time we are not aware of it, the self gets identified with the mind...
It is constant being and awareness, existence - consciousness - bliss. Sath-Chith-Ananda.
If someone tells God is everywhere it means he is kind of right, but also lost in multiplicity and not aware of the different levels of consciousness.
It is an intellectual trap, a generalisation and from that place we will not get the right experience.
It would be like saying, but the monkey mind is also God, but that is not true. The reflection in the mirror, what the mind perceived and the brain inferred with, the monkey mind resulting that is certainly not God, it is illusion and that is Maya not God, God is real.
To tell everything is God can be an excuse to not have to think about it and to not reflect, an excuse to be lethargic in the mind.
First we have to see duality to start the process. Duality is the first step, otherwise, we didn't even start yet.
Devotee: Swami, you say that everything is God, but isn't the body also God? If everything is God, then the body must also be God?
Baba: You are asking about the body. You are thinking about the body, not of God. If you only think of God, then, for you, there will be only God. But now you are thinking of the body. The body is an instrument; it is made of matter; and matter is always changing. The world also is always changing, but God is never changing. God is the one unchanging spirit.
Sathya Sai Vahini
But if everything is God, body is also God, on that level the intellect cannot function, because we have made everything look only one way and generalized it.
God is not changing, the body is always changing, it is not a question of everything, but a question of no change.
God is light, the body is matter and therefore dark. Light and darkness can never be together. Where light is, there is no darkness, in darkness is no light.
Why the mind thinks - everything is God and doesn't go further, thinking stops, enquiry stops, it makes discrimination impossible?
We say something to someone and get the answer, everything is God, it seems the answer for everything, but at the same time it shows that this person has no answer, it is only superficial.
If I go on observing 'everything is not that' - not God and in the end what remains it 'that' only, but it has no name, no form and it is not manifested and 'that' is God.
In thinking of God only, I get aware of what he is not to get to the reality of what he is.
Everything which is changing, everything on the manifested level is 'not that', because it is not about God's manifestation, but it is about realization that God is not limited therefore, different from all what is limited. God is an absolute reality, everything on the sense level is relative reality. Everything relative is 'not that' to get to the experience of the 'eternal that'. Everything in the object is not that to get to the subject which is that.
If we tell, everything is God, also body is God, we ask the wrong question.
It is not about God on an intellectual level, it is about experience. On the relative level we cannot experience the absolute reality which is the only real existence.
To get the experience of it we have to be aware what is not real, all what is limited, to get to reality, what is not limited - the experience of it.
We have to stop seeing it as intellectual concept. It is not about getting lost in the thought, but he is everything, what now?
That sounds really like black and white, what now, like with my ex. We have to stay on the reality level.
What we see around is limited and therefore it cannot be God. We have to make the experience first and get aware of duality. The relative level he is not, to find the absolute and unchanging reality of our own observer.
It is the observer which gets lost in the relative appearance, if we are not aware of it. If we just tell - God is everything, it is not really fault, but also not right, because we get lost in multiplicity and cannot even start the process. It depends the level of consciousness.
First is duality and the aim is the experience.
All what is limited he is not, and we have to constantly be aware of it, every moment to not get lost in it, because every time we are not aware of it, the self gets identified with the mind...
It is constant being and awareness, existence - consciousness - bliss. Sath-Chith-Ananda.
If someone tells God is everywhere it means he is kind of right, but also lost in multiplicity and not aware of the different levels of consciousness.
It is an intellectual trap, a generalisation and from that place we will not get the right experience.
It would be like saying, but the monkey mind is also God, but that is not true. The reflection in the mirror, what the mind perceived and the brain inferred with, the monkey mind resulting that is certainly not God, it is illusion and that is Maya not God, God is real.
To tell everything is God can be an excuse to not have to think about it and to not reflect, an excuse to be lethargic in the mind.
First we have to see duality to start the process. Duality is the first step, otherwise, we didn't even start yet.
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