Two Wings are Needed if we Want to Fly

Do not engage yourself in the cultivation of or the promotion of wants and desires. That is a never ending process of sowing and reaping; you will never reach contentment and one desire when satisfied, will fan the thirst for ten more. Do not run after devious desires or crooked satisfactions. All roads leading to the realm of the senses are tortuous and blind, only the road that leads to the path of the Lord is straight. Cultivate righteousness in every action, that will reveal the Divine Self. Straightforwardness will enable you to overcome the three gunas (qualities). No single Guna should dominate; all must be tamed to fill the lake of bliss. It is your internal bliss that matters, not the external, the sensory, the objective and the worldly. If the inner poise or inner equilibrium is undisturbed by external ups and downs, that is a sure sign of spiritual success.

We have twenty quotes to contemplate in this months as it is the time before Baba left the body. That means I am quite busy and it is a very good exercise in sharing it with others we get aware of it. 
Just today he mentioned the two wings we need to fly or the two wheels we need to be able of pulling the cart.
Getting aware of it and contemplating the words of Baba is the other wing, all we do in the Sai centers is the wing of practice, people are singing a lot and like to sing and are great singers and other are doing practice in some service activities, but what I notice often is that something seems missing and it is that basic wisdom. To make it more clear that with contemplation we are not talking about the same wing as we do with practice, I put the picture, I have already in my blog. 

Thinking it over is a great exercise to get aware of it. When we listen to his words, it is about real and unreal, it is about right action and being aware of the difference between what is right and what is not right action and as he is telling us we have to overcome to three gunas, but that means with other words, we have to know the difference between them and that is already challenging our mind to know what is sathva, purity and what is rajas, passion and what is tamas, ignorance. 

Sathva is the path, rajas, passion we have to transform and tamas, inertia we have to give up. He is telling us they must be tamed to be in bliss, but without wisdom it is just impossible to tame the gunas, we need to know the difference between them to be able to tame them and that means we usually start to live a sathvic life style to get aware of it when it is not sathva, but something else. 

We need two wings to fly, the part of contemplation and thinking it over is the wing of Vairagya, discrimination and realization what is real and unreal and the other wing is practice, it is meditation, it is as well devotional singing or service activities and this here is part of getting aware of it, therefor, it is not the same wing, but we need two wings if we want to fly. 

What does it mean when you say God descends as an Avatar? God out of His love, affection and compassion, comes down to the level of a human being and arouses the Divine Consciousness in humankind. When God finds that many people are desperately searching outside of themselves for God, He makes you aware of God within yourself. God is in fact the core in everyone. This chance, to realise God within, has been granted to you as a reward for merit acquired by you in many previous lives, so as to reach the highest goal of merging with the absolute. Every bird needs two wings to fly; a cart needs two wheels to be pulled along. To journey towards the highest goal, you need both faith and steadfastness - spiritual learning (vidya) and penance (tapas). Bhagavad Gita states, Knowledge of the Self (Atma Vidya) is the holiest. Knowledge (Vidya) shows the way, and the penance (tapas) makes you reach the goal. Both are necessary to attain the Ultimate.