Sharing and Right Action

Everyone should so lead life that no pain is caused to any living thing. That is their supreme duty. Also, it is the prime duty of everyone who has had the chance of this human birth, to spare a part of their energies occasionally to prayer, repetition of the Lord's name, meditation, etc. Everyone must equate living with truth, righteousness, peacefulness, and good works that are of service to others. One must be as afraid of doing acts that are harmful to others or deeds that are sinful as one is now afraid to touch fire or disturb a cobra. One must have as much attachment and steadfastness in carrying out good works, in making others happy, and in worshiping the Lord as one now has in accumulating gold and riches. This is the code of conduct (dharma) of all human beings.

Baba (thought for the day)

The thought for the day of Swami I usually wrote it down in the ashram in a thought for the day book, I hoped like that to get more into it and I know some who said that it was difficult to understand and often they thought so because of the Sanskrit expressions and as we are not used to it, we think we don't understand it because of that reason.

That is actually not correct. 

In thinking it over I began to do it differently, I read his words sentence after sentence and think it over and if there is something I don't understand I google it and I get a feeling for it. In that way we think it over and afterwards we notice that it is not about the Sanskrit word, but about the effort to think it over. 

It was therefore not enough to just write it down and to read it. In thinking it over we establish in our mind a relationship, we get a feeling for it and that happens mostly by seeing it in our own life and it feels all different, if we see it in our own life. 

It is a different way of studying Sai Baba's words by establishing an inner feeling for it and afterwards we wonder, why we didn't listen before, why we didn't hear it? We notice that he said it always, he never stopped telling us, but it needs listening and putting it into practice and only if we put it into practice we are able to feel it and to get the benefit of it. As he tells us: Listen, think it over, absorb. 

And by that it gets closer and nearer and dearer and becomes more and more part of our own self. What happens in that process in listening, thinking it over and absorbing, we find it in our own self and when that is part of our own self, it is part of everybody as we all have the same higher self and there is only one.

Everyone should so lead life that no pain is caused to any living thing. That is their supreme duty. Also, it is the prime duty of everyone who has had the chance of this human birth, to spare a part of their energies occasionally to prayer, repetition of the Lord's name, meditation, etc.

What comes in my mind in reading Swami’s words is that if he calls it the supreme duty, there must also be another duty, different from supreme. Supreme means highest duty and we always go usually for the highest first.            
But he is not talking about difference between supreme and not supreme, but he is telling us that we should live with truth. 

We have to accept truth that means we have to find what is true as different from what is untrue, it is all about discrimination only.
By thinking it over we get into it, we start to think and more thoughts are coming and we just write it down.
Baba talks not just about some good qualities as we probably should notice; he talks about the human values here, truth, right action, peace. As we remember it is basic and we got there with the study circle and the text about ‘love’, if we want to make the experience of ‘pure love’ as Baba said, we have to understand peace, we have to accept right action and we have to accept truth and only if those three things are present, we can make the experience of ‘pure love’. 

That is how we see the human values together. It gives a deeper understanding of it if we think it over. Like that are already four of the human values explained and we know five values, we still have 'ahimsa', non-violence, and he will speak another time about it. 

In the text we were studying until now we had a lot about those four values and how they work together, but he didn't speak a lot about non-violence. 

Everyone must equate living with truth, righteousness, peacefulness, and good works that are of service to others.

So he talks here about right action, peace and truth, that are all three things that have to be present to experience love and he is going on, that we have to do good works to be of service to others. If there are those three things, we can get the experience of pure love. Service to others is ‘love in action’.

We should be afraid of doing acts that are harmful to other.
That is how we should be afraid. 

The fear is making us alert and careful to not harm and it would be good for my ex if he would have had a bit fear of that, he would have been a better person if he would have had that fear instead of telling everybody fairytales about Swami will give him whatever he wants and taking advantage of it.

In India they don’t disturb a cobra, if there would be a cobra living around here, it would be chased and probably be put in the zoo or they would even kill it, nobody in our society accepts the presence of a cobra nearby. In India it seems they would rather give the cobra some milk to keep her happy instead of disturbing and killing it. That is the difference between non-violence and violence and it is actually a huge difference. It is therefore a better karma for the cobra being born in India than if it would be being born here.

One must be as afraid of doing acts that are harmful to others or deeds that are sinful as      one is now afraid to touch fire or disturb a cobra.

It is actually a good way to see it, as it was about being scared.
In that sense being scared is even good and we should even develop attachment and steadfastness in carrying out good works and in making others happy and in worshipping the Lord as we have accumulated gold and riches.
Now that is true about you. The only riches I accumulated is the wisdom and my purpose was always going inside and serving the divine or serving Swami and that is not the same level of gold I guess. I can only share what I accumulated and others should share what they have accumulated so that we both share what 'we' accumulated. 

'You and I are We' first step and 'we and He is I' second step. It makes only sense and is only possible to reach that divine 'I am I' if 'we together share what we have accumulated, even if the level of accumulation is not the same level'. 

One must have as much attachment and steadfastness in carrying out good works, in making others happy, and in worshiping the Lord as one now has in accumulating gold and riches. This is the code of conduct (dharma) of all human beings.

Sharing what we are able to share, that is the code of conduct of right action (dharma) of all human beings and that is Baba's message in that thought for the day, right?