God’s Head Office Is Man’s Heart

21 April 1992, Sai Shruti, Kodaikanal, TN

Published English.

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Bliss Can Be Found Only In The One who indulges in finding faults of others will not know about himself. Man today is searching and investigating everything including God. He wants to know where He is; how He looks. This search is going on generation after generation. The human being uses his body and mind in this search. (the earlier speaker) also said, “Body is most essential”. Human body has five (sheaths). One can understand the nature of the body, when one understands the nature of five sheaths.

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Know The Truth By Exploring The The Self is encased in five concentric or sheaths. The outermost and the grossest sheath is (food sheath). The next is (life sheath). The third is (mental sheath). The fourth is (wisdom sheath). The say (mind is the basis of the entire world). Subtler than is , which is beyond the mind. And the fifth is (bliss sheath). The first three sheaths relate to the physical world which is temporary, while has special significance, as it is closer to the Self or which is eternal. Each sheath is subtler than its outer sheath.

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Modern people call science as . The scientific research is being regarded as by the scientific community. This modern science is based on external search, and is confined to the material world only. It is not the science of bliss and truth. The science of pertains to the knowledge of truth. Bliss can be found only in the , one’s own innermost core. and are synonyms only. The individual Self is termed as , while the all-pervading Self is called .

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Where can this be found? As the diamond lies buried in earth, (supreme consciousness) is encased in (inert matter), the physical body. But is beyond body. Many people search for in the external world. It is mere foolishness. However, this body should not be neglected, because it contains the most valuable , the . Man is born in dust, lives in dust and merges in dust. The (formless) principle of God cannot be understood by external vision or knowledge. It can be realised only upon exploration within one’s own body. The scientific search on external materials can only be termed worldly knowledge. It is like a half circle. The spiritual science is like a full circle. It propounds, (That is full, this is full) which means that the imperceptible Divinity is wholesome or totally integrated. This perceptible world is also a part and parcel of that integrated principle of Divinity.

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Attain God Through Love You do not need a lantern to see the moon. The moon can be seen by its own light. God’s form is love, and He can be known and attained only by means of love. Without knowing the principle of Divinity, people claim that they are in search of God. (knowledge) reveals itself only when ignorance is destroyed. What is ? It is not merely husband, wife and children. It is the feeling of mine and thine. Man has emanated from the Supreme Divine principle. But he is born in this (worldly life) again and again due to ignorance and desires. Anger is the result of desires.

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Here is a small story. The husband and wife were sleeping in their room at night. Six thieves entered the house. The wife was awake, while the husband was in slumber. The wife cautioned the husband that thieves had entered the house, but the husband, who was in a slothful state, said, “Yes, I know”. “The thieves have opened the iron safe,” she said again. The lazy husband turned from one side to the other and said again, “I know”. The wife said, “Look, they are running away with the iron safe with valuables”. The husband said confidently, “Don’t worry, the key of the safe is with me”! The wife could only lament at the foolishness of the husband. In this story, the husband stands for (individual soul), wife for awareness, house for body and thieves for six inner enemies of man – desire, anger, greed, passion, arrogance and jealousy. After having realised that the most precious Divinity is there within you, why don’t you endeavour to experience it?

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Use Gross Body To Realise Divinity Our great (saints) performed intense penance and spent their lives in search of God. Finally, they said, (I have visualised the Supreme Being who shines with the effulgence of a billion suns and who is beyond – the darkness of ignorance). You can also see God. God is not residing somewhere in or ; these places are like branch offices of God. His head office is situated in your heart only. Purity and piousness are naturally present in you. God is behind the curtain of . This curtain of has to be removed. makes good appear as bad and bad as good. It shows sacred things as unholy and unsacred. (passion) aggravates (sloth). One is filled with pride when one’s wish is fulfilled, but gets dejected and blames God when it is not fulfilled. and are siblings of the same mother. Who is this mother? (ignorance) is the mother. The moment (spiritual knowledge) is born, dies. On the one hand, it is the time for birth related rituals or celebrations; and on the other, obsequies related to death.

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Human body is a combination of loathsome blood, bones and flesh. But it houses pious and pure . Therefore, this body has to be protected, and should not be neglected. In order to achieve the supreme goal of life, the mundane body has to be nurtured carefully, in a balanced manner. Our body’s normal temperature is 98.4°F. Its higher or lower temperature spells danger. When blood pressure goes up or down the optimum level, it is an indication of disease. Same is the case with eyesight. All such parameters can be maintained well when you observe limits with regard to food and other habits. Spiritual pursuits progress only in a healthy body. The subtle Divinity can be realised with the help of this gross body.

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So many of you are sitting in this room at . You are directly seeing the shape of this gathering. When you go back to or the place you reside, this gathering is no more before your eyes. But when you recollect, its picture will come before your mind. The experience at pertains to (form); and its recollection pertains to (formless) state. So, the helps you in grasping the principle of the . It is an empty claim when somebody says that he is meditating on the principle. One can easily grasp Divinity by developing love towards a particular form ().

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Some students tend to ignore their parents when they grow up and attain some high position. You must have gratitude and respect for them, considering them at par with God. , (revere your mother and father as God).

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Even as a young man, was always immersed in consciousness. One day, his mother told him, “Dear ! Your devotion to God is laudable indeed. But you should not ignore your mother’s desire, as your blood came from me. I wish that you get married”. Respecting his mother’s desire, got married. went all over , singing ’s name in ecstatic joy along the streets, using cymbals and a drum as accompanying instruments. God wanted to test him. Some of the people were averse to his singing. One day, someone snatched cymbals from his hands. said to himself that it was an act of , meant for his own good. He continued with his singing, using drum. The next day, his drum was also snatched. reasoned that did not like the use of external instruments and that He liked the inner feelings as cymbals and the inner voice as drum. Nothing could disrupt his intense devotion for .

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Likewise, also felt in her ecstasy of devotion that came to her house and knocked at the door. The next moment she laughed and told herself that the entire universe was His house. Where was the question of knocking at the door?

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The whole universe is the Lord’s abode, Where then is the front door for that mansion? Play on the life strings of your body, Offer yourself at His feet and shed tears of joy, See heaven in that experience, oh ! That is the main entrance to the Lord’s abode. (Telugu Song)

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She regarded her veins as strings of music; and she considered herself present in with ecstatic tears trickling down her cheeks. Who is ? This (Nature) itself took birth as . (continuous worship) is the (basis) for . She was in constant contemplation of . She had no attachment to her body. She had attachment to alone.

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