Tuesday, September 15, 2009

controlling senses

Thinking too much about pleasure causes obsession, desire, anger, loss of wit, memory & wisdom, finally ends in destruction.

The way too much attachment to material world destroys us is very beautifully explained in this Geeta Shloka. As per it:

When a person is immersed in materialistic pleasures he forms attraction towards them.

That attraction creates desire, the eagerness to enjoy them more and more.

When that desire is not satisfied anger forms, anger blinds the vision.

Due to this lack of vision a person acts blindly and loses his wits.

Once he loses his wits his wisdom also follows and his destruction becomes inevitable.

2 comments:

  1. We often desire for the desire of a thing too. These mental constructions are so subtle :)

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  2. that is why i said about working from inside in that poem.. and reach only that much as much our heart allows.. to never go out of our own capacity.

    have you read about the middle path? i think thats the smartest path for family folks.

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