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Bhagavad-Gita 121
motivated by it might undergo. It contacts the senses of perception and affects the mind; it awakens the intellect to discriminate and decide upon the lines of action, it activates the instruments of thought, speech and action, of expression and communication. The eyes see; but what force prompts them? You may have ears but who endows them with the power of hearing? Words emanate from the mouth; but what urges us and frames the manner and content of the speech? That force acts like the cells in a torch, which provide the bulb with the current to illuminate it. Doctors know that the body consists of cells, billions of them, alive and alert, busy and active. Each cell is motivated by the atma; it is immanent, all over. The atma is in each of them, as well as in every spot of space. When we realize it as such, it is experienced as effulgent, total, splendorous light: endless, incomparable, unique light.” (Sathya Sai Baba)
Notes
1. Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, Translators, Bhagavad-Gita (New York: The New American Library Inc., 1944), pp. 30-31.
2. Ibid., pp. 31-34.
3. Sathya Sai Baba, Geetha Vahini (Brindavan, Whitefïeld, Bangalore, India: Sri Sathya Sai Publication and Education Foundation), p. 5.
4. Ibid., p. 5.
5. See last quote of this chapter.
6. Ibid., p. 2.
7. Ibid., p. 7.


































































































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