20. We depend on each other for
our existence —
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21. We depend on each other for
our existence — we cannot
exist alone.
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22. We depend on each other for
our existence — we cannot
exist alone.
Therefore, we should work
for the good of all.
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23. We depend on each other for
our existence — we cannot
exist alone.
Therefore, we should work
for the good of all.
That is what dharma
essentially is, to perform our
duties.
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24. We all live in this world and if we all follow
our own individual ideas and imaginations:
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25. We all live in this world and if we all follow
our own individual ideas and imaginations:
• there will be
clashes of
interest
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26. We all live in this world and if we all follow
our own individual ideas and imaginations:
• there will be
clashes of
interest
• and physically
forever fighting
each other,
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27. We all live in this world and if we all follow
our own individual ideas and imaginations:
• there will be
clashes of
interest
• and physically
forever fighting
each other,
• and so the whole of life will be a
battle of fighting for nothing.
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29. • We all are different,
• we think in different ways
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30. • We all are different,
• we think in different ways
• and we all have our individual needs
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31. • We all are different,
• we think in different ways
• and we all have our individual needs
If each of us goes his own way there
will be clashes of interest all the time.
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32. So we should get
together to work
on ways and
means whereby
each one of us
will be able to
make a sacrifice
for our society,
for the good of
all.
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35. By nature we will
do the right thing;
that is what
dharma is about.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
36. By nature we will
do the right thing;
that is what
dharma is about.
When we do the
right thing we will
benefit from it
and, ultimately,
our society will
benefit as well.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
37. Another type of law is
the law that is imposed
on us with the police and
the army to force us to
follow it, but in spite of
all these external forces
imposed on us, we still
do not live peacefully,
because our nature is
like that.
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38. Another type of law is
the law that is imposed
on us with the police and
the army to force us to
follow it, but in spite of
all these external forces
imposed on us, we still
do not live peacefully,
because our nature is
like that.
To practise some
discipline is essential.
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39. The Vedas state
that it is good to
have knowledge,
that we must
have knowledge,
but that
knowledge alone
is not enough.
G. Bilimoria
46. We fulfil our duties as:
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
47. We fulfil our duties as:
•a father,
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
48. We fulfil our duties as:
•a father,
•a mother,
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
49. We fulfil our duties as:
•a father,
•a mother,
•a daughter,
•a son, and so on,
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
50. We fulfil our duties as:
•a father,
•a mother,
•a daughter,
•a son, and so on,
•as a part of society,
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
51. We fulfil our duties as:
•a father,
•a mother,
•a daughter,
•a son, and so on,
•as a part of society,
•a part of everything.
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Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
54. By performing these types
of duties:
• our mind becomes pure,
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
55. By performing these types
of duties:
• our mind becomes pure,
•our nature becomes pure
and
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
56. By performing these types
of duties:
• our mind becomes pure,
•our nature becomes pure
and
•then we become detached
from this material world.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
57. Attachment arises
when we only act for
our own selfish
requirements, our
position, and so on.
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60. ards
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61. ards
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62. ards
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Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
66. Lord Krishna said that
through that spirit of
selfless activities, when
we have nothing to gain
and nothing to lose by
not doing, performing
seva all the time to our
family, and so on, we
attain that height of
realisation whereby our
mind becomes absorbed
in God.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
67. Lord Krishna
advises us,
therefore, always to
perform — with the
spirit of
detachment — that
action which has to
be done; then,
verily, we attain to
the highest
perfection.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
68. Lord Krishna explained
that when we think only
about ourselves all the
time and forget
everyone else, we
become bound to
things, and as a result
of that attachment all
kinds of obstacles come
into our life.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
69. Therefore, this is not the way for
mankind to find peace and happiness.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
70. Therefore, this is not the way for
mankind to find peace and happiness.
The only way we
can find happiness
is through
detachment,
because whenever
there is attachment
there is suffering —
attachment is the
cause of suffering.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
71. And where there is
detachment there is
peace and
harmony, there is
everything because
with the spirit of
sacrifice comes
non-attachment.
And where there is
sacrifice everyone
gains.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
72. But when
we are selfcentred —
thinking
only about
ourselves —
no one likes
us.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
73. No one likes selfish
people.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
74. No one likes selfish
people.
Lord Krishna said
that there is no place
in this world for
people who do not
make sacrifices.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
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77. Whatever great people do and accept
as authority, others will follow.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
78. Spirituality is not just
talking; it must
express itself in our
actions and in our
attitude.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
79. Spirituality is not just
talking; it must
express itself in our
actions and in our
attitude.
For it is through
example that we can
teach, not by just
talking.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
80. The great people are an example to
follow, showing others the way they
must walk.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
81. So we must work:
for our family,
for our society,
for our dharma, and
by engaging in these types of
activities all the time, our
mind will become pure.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
84. To make a sacrifice is the
greatest thing that we can
do. As someone said,
selfless service is like a
tree — we nurture and
water it, and when the tree
grows we will enjoy it
because we have seen the
tree from the beginning,
we have cared for it.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
88. The word 'Dharma',
which is really
bound up with an
infinite variety of
meanings, is
regarded in
common usage as
referring to actions like charity,
performing good deeds, and
discharging one's duties, etc.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
89. But these relate only to external
actions. Dharma is eternal, the same
for everyone, everywhere. It
expresses the significance of the
inner Atma. The birth place of
Dharma is the heart.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
90. What comes from the heart as a
pure idea, when translated into
action is Dharma. The true Dharma
of every human being is to make
every endeavour to realize the
Divine; Dharma should lead to Selfrealization.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
92. The family is the
basis, the root of
our society.
What our family
is, that is what
our society
becomes.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
93. Particularly
when the
children are very
small we need to
teach them by
example,
because if we do
not do that when
they are small,
we will lose
control.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
94. So Lord Krishna said that we
have multiple responsibilities,
not one, but responsibilities
towards:
•our family,
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95. So Lord Krishna said that we
have multiple responsibilities,
not one, but responsibilities
towards:
•our family,
•our society,
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96. So Lord Krishna said that we
have multiple responsibilities,
not one, but responsibilities
towards:
•our family,
•our society,
•our religious life and
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97. So Lord Krishna said that we
have multiple responsibilities,
not one, but responsibilities
towards:
•our family,
•our society,
•our religious life and
•our dharma.
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98. That is selfless service.
If we are
like that,
our life
will be
happy
and our
society
will
prosper.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
100. So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita
is that when we follow
the principles, the
ethics and the sadhana
— meditation — of the
Bhagavad Gita:
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
101. So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita
is that when we follow
the principles, the
ethics and the sadhana
— meditation — of the
Bhagavad Gita:
•our life will definitely
become uplifting;
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
102. So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita
is that when we follow
the principles, the
ethics and the sadhana
— meditation — of the
Bhagavad Gita:
•our life will definitely
become uplifting;
•we will experience
peace and
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
103. So the emphasis in the Bhagavad Gita
is that when we follow
the principles, the
ethics and the sadhana
— meditation — of the
Bhagavad Gita:
•our life will definitely
become uplifting;
•we will experience
peace and
•our society will be in order.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
104. The Bhagavad Gita is an epic poem about
….life,
….death,
….love, and
….duty,
from the people who settled in the
river valleys in India and developed a
sophisticated culture, thousands of
years ago.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
105. It is a half-inch thick poem
embedded in
the middle of a
six-inch-thick
poem, the
Mahabharatha ,
a masterpiece about the
heights and depths of the
human soul.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
106. To read The Bhagavad Gita is to
swing back and forth smoothly,
between the head and the heart,
between the
worldly and the
spiritual, curving
between gaining
knowledge and
applying it in
today’s real world.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
107. In this swing from
humanness to godliness
lies the Gita’s secret
penetrating power, its
ability:
•to lift and
•move us.
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108. Sometimes, a thought arises
what our nation would have
been without the Gita. What
remains if we eliminate Shrimad
Bhagavat, Ramayana and
Bhagavad Gita from our culture?
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
109. Can we imagine Indian culture
without these holy books? They
make our invaluable treasure, of
which the realisation and
possession has elevated us to the
heights of supremacy in the world.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
110. In every major age,
God comes
•as avatar and
•teaches the Gita to
initiate us into selfknowledge and
•dispel the covering
which hide our divine
nature.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
111. 5000 years
ago, God
came as
Krishna, to
render this
song of truth
at a time of
great moral
decline.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
112. At that time,
he gave the
Gita in order
to rescue
Arjuna,
and through him all of mankind,
from the fog of illusion and
attachment.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
113. In this age, He has come again as Sai
Baba, to give this sacred teaching at
another time of great turmoil and
declining values.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty Sai Region
119. Baba says…..
Where there is love, there
is Ananda; where there is
Ananda, there is music.
That is the reason why
Krishna sang the Bhagavad
Gita
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