Tuesday, September 15, 2009

falsehood

A person depriving himself from pleasures is keeping his thirst alive. But a siddha forgets his thirst by knowing his yog with God…

This shloka of geeta says:

Material luxuries can be enjoyed in two ways, first physically and the second through the mind.

Man often stops enjoying them through body by applying force upon himself, but his desire remains alive, and he keeps on enjoying them psychologically. That is inside his mind. Yet feels proud that I have detached myself from physical pleasures. This is called falsehood.

Sages say mental enjoyment, that is psychological enjoyment is the most dangerous type of enjoyment because it has no beginning or end point, you can keep on doing it through out the day and even in your dreams while you are depriving your body from everything. That is why they say to become a sage, one should not only overcome physical addictions, he should overcome psychological/mental addictions too.

Stopping the physical enjoyment by force and enjoying the same things through mind is called falsehood.

2 comments:

  1. Great point,old masters knew more psychology than the modern man

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