108 Quotations on Faith in God
From
Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Divine Discourses
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58 –
"Arjuna,
listen well to another point also. Karma as such has no capacity
to bind; it is the conceit 'I am the doer' that brings about the
attachment and the bond; it is the desire to earn the fruit that
produces the bondage. For example: the zero gets value only with
the association of a digit. Karma is zero; agency or the feeling
of 'doer' is associated with the Karma; then it breeds bonds. So
Arjuna, give up the sense of "I" and the Karma that you do will
never harm you. Karma done without any desire for the fruits
thereof will not produce impulses; that is to say, there will be
no impulse for birth even. The aspirants of past ages performed
Karma with this high ideal in view. They never felt that they were
the "doers" or "enjoyers of the fruits" of any act. The Lord did,
the Lord gave the fruit, the Lord enjoyed the fruit, that was
their conviction. This world has only a relative value; it has no
absolute existence; that was their faith. Arjuna! You too should
cultivate that faith and earn that conviction. Do so; then your
mind will become clarified and pure."
– Sri
Sathya Sai Baba
From: Sri
Sathya Sai Baba, Geetha Vahini
Chapter IX, Paragraph 19
Online:
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/askbaba/geethavahini/geetha049.htm
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