The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You

1972-07-11

From:

Sri Sathya Sai

To all the Boys in the Hostel:

How are you? You are very happy because I am not there. No. No. I am here, there and everywhere. Swami is Love, Love is Swami. Therefore, Love is there. There are two kinds of love, Personal and Impersonal. Personal love relates to the physical part of the being while the Impersonal relates to the spiritual. Life is intended for the practise of Impersonal Love. When this Love is revealed in your heart you would realise the wonderful Universal Truth, the Spirit of Existence, which is called God.

To devote yourself to Swamiji in order to realise Him means shedding your individual sense and knowing that you are the Universal Truth and Spirit. This is possible only when you transcend the individual sense or the ego sense in you. The ego sense is the cause of your unhappiness, bondage and misery in the world. 

“Sai Krishna” through Geeta has asked you to surrender yourself to the Divine completely and be free from the ego sense. When the ego sense is eliminated you shall have Universal vision and, based on that vision, you love all alike. God is love and He dwells in love. In one who dwells in God, God dwells in him. God as love is dwelling in your hearts and therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. When you realise this Truth in the freshness and beauty of the Immortal spirit, your life will sing the music of love.

With blessings,

Baba.(11. 7. 1972)

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