Highest first - Wisdom first

Divinity expresses itself infinitely as the five elements – the sky, the wind, the fire, the water and the earth. All creation is but a combination of two or more of these in varying proportions.

The characteristic nature of these elements are sound, touch, form, taste and smell, cognized by the ear, the skin, the eye, the tongue and the nose.

All the elements are abundant in Nature and are precious and potent with Divinity. So use them in moderation, reverentially, with humility and gratefulness. 
Excessive or inappropriate usage will injure your well-being just as drinking more or less water than needed is a torture. Inhaling more air is suffocating. Fire in moderation can warm or serve to heat and melt, but beyond a certain limit, it is a holocaust. Even excessive use of sound will distract people and drive them crazy.

Hence, learn to use the natural resources intelligently, in moderation, with the idea of loving service to all in the community.

Baba (thought for the day)

 

This is exactly what happens to me when I read the thought for the day and it reflects the issue which was there a day before. Divinity expresses itself in the elements, sound, touch, form, taste and smell, cognized by our senses.
We have to make right use of it.

I guess it is also a lesson how sathva turns into tamas if we are not making the right use of it.

The idea of loving service turning into the opposite, because we cannot serve alone but in the group and therefore, there is that expectation at the group to serve the others who are different...?

What is not real about that? Why we think there is a difference?  

It is about awareness.  

 

Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.
Baba

Do you know what happens if there is too much of something and why and when it turns into Tamas?

Do you know how to keep balance to live Sathva and keep it sathvic? In the ashram we were always living with others in the room, but he said we should stay inside alone.

Sathva begins bitter and ends sweet. Rajas begins sweet and ends bitter. Tamas turns it upside down, it makes out of a vice a virtue and out of a virtue a vice.

If there is no self-control, no self-awareness, no inquiry, someone just following some kind of instinct without being aware what he is doing, it is also in a spiritual group turning things upside down and Tamas.
Maybe it is just a lesson to get aware of it, but if there is no understanding because the focus is on a wrong level, it will not result in self-awareness, but in something else. 

 

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come.
So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.
(Joe Vigil)

 

A spiritual master has realized that. In the West we go in general for wealth and not wisdom, because we don't even know that something like wisdom on the level of the higher self exists for sure, we put it in question and rationalize it.