Nature of the Human Mind- Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Just as one who wants to live in this world should first become human, one who wants to learn ‘Brahma Vidya’, should first become a spiritualist. The human body is composed of all the five elements and the soul in it has no binding of any particular kind. If you introspect on this matter, you will find that the soul inside the body is the real essence of it. In common parlance, when we live in a rented house, we say that we pay a rent. We may query if we pay the rent to the house or to the owner of the house. The answer is obvious. But, in regard to spiritual matters, we do not seem to bother about such questions. The human body is like a rented house. An individual is living in that rented house. The individual has really to pay the rent to the owner of the house, namely, God. He should not pay the rent to the body. In truth, God is the owner of the house in which we live, as He owns the body.

This house of man should be regarded a something through which we should acquire knowledge and wisdom. Spiritual knowledge tells us that the Divine dwells in this body, although we regard the body itself as a destructible thing. We also call it a ‘kshetra’, a place where something is living. These notions arise on account of the fact that something permanent is inside the destructible human body. This morning, two ideas have been dealt with, namely, the destructibility and the indestructibility. We should know the connection that exists between those two concepts. All that you see in this world is destructible. In fact all living beings that you see around you are destructible. The only indestructible thing is ‘jiva’ or the soul that is contained in the living beings that you see. If you want to understand this with ease, then you have to accept and believe that every thing that undergoes a change, every thing that transforms from time to time is a destructible thing. The human body is associated with six stages of transformation. These six are birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. Because the body is passing through all these phases and because the body is not a permanent one, we are attributing to it the quality of destruction or destructibility.

© `Summer Showers in Brindavan’ published (1981) by Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam.

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