For a person living in the materialistic world, the sensual pleasures are a source of extreme delight. However, the senses themselves are temporary, and hence grant only transitory joy. To a person suffering from jaundice, everything looks yellow and tastes bitter. So too senses fraught with illness cannot give true happiness.
As there is no person without desire, and it is difficult to live without desire in this world, Lord Krishna came out with an excellent solution. He said, "Perform all actions for the pleasure of the Lord without an eye on the fruits of the action." Pay your respect to duty and dedicate all actions to the Divine. Ensure you do all actions to the satisfaction of your conscience and then your heart is free from all blemishes.
Such an action qualifies to become an act of Anapeksha, not tainted by desire.
Baba (thought for the day)
If we live in a spiritual world all that seems to make somehow sense and it seems to be easy, because we are carried by that spiritual energy which is around a master, some call it a field, which is created when spiritual people live together on one place like an ashram.
But as we have to live in the world and around that materialistic world, which sees in sensual pleasure extreme delight, it is not that easy. Even if the senses are only temporary and grant only transitory joy, at least there is some joy and not only frustration.
Sathva begins bitter and ends sweet and Rajas begins sweet and ends bitter and Tamas turns it upside down, it makes out of that extreme sensual pleasure a delight and holds it high.
And fact is, there is no person without desire and therefore, we got that excellent solution, perform all actions for the pleasure of the Lord, without an eye on the fruit of action'.
But there is a question in the following sentence. How do we make sure that all actions are to the satisfaction of our conscience and our heart will be free from blemish? What is the quality of that conscience? I guess there are many ways people think that is consciously right and it has nothing to do with the level Baba is talking about here. If it would be that clear and easy, there would be no problems between people in the centers.
If we dedicate our actions to the Divine, what is divine?
Last night I came back from Amma and didn't go as the night before a big detour back home, there was roadwork on the highway, I had to get some fuel and the end of the hose jumped out and the fuel was all over. I jumped also away, I probably was that much absorbed, I didn't realize that I should have kept it in my hand, but it was extreme to get aware of that feeling of danger, because it needed just a match to blow it in the air.
I got scared and when I paid for the guy asked if I want to blow them all up and I said that it snatched out of my hand once more in the end, when it was full.
It didn't made me feel good.
As there is no person without desire, and it is difficult to live without desire in this world, Lord Krishna came out with an excellent solution. He said, "Perform all actions for the pleasure of the Lord without an eye on the fruits of the action." Pay your respect to duty and dedicate all actions to the Divine. Ensure you do all actions to the satisfaction of your conscience and then your heart is free from all blemishes.
Such an action qualifies to become an act of Anapeksha, not tainted by desire.
I don't think we have any chance to understand that right without thinking it over.
Out of my sight we have to know the Bhagavadgita quite well to understand what Krishna means and to go for that solution and to understand the reality of conscience on a real level and not just what we think our conscience is, what is for everybody a different one. If Baba mentions it here it is for sure only one conscience and it is the same for everybody, because it is a divine level, another conscience doesn't exist for him. But it doesn't mean that we all understand it on the right level and that our way of thinking about our own conscience is on that higher level of Krishna and Baba.
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