Ultimate object of human endeavor
The rarest and the greatest
enjoyments of the world cannot make a man happy if there is no peace in his
mind. A man with a restless mind is out of the question so long as the craving
for enjoyments is there.
The craving for enjoyment
does not cease so long as it is believed that there is happiness in enjoyments.
And it is the nature of desire that the more it is gratified the more it grows.
It is never stated.
The very discretion of a man
whose mind is crowded with desires gets enfeebled and lost, his very judgement gets
impaired. That is why he perpetrates ever new sins or prohibited acts for the
gratification of his desires and consequently gets entangled more and more in a
cobweb of miseries. Anger and greed invariably accompany desire. When a desire
is crossed in the course of its gratification anger makes its appearance; while
its gratification intensifies greed. And where these three combine sinful acts
follow as a matter of course—nay, rather as something believed to be undergoing
terrible tortures in hell.
Enjoyments, even if they had,
are sure to become extinct, they must leave you. Therefore wisdom lies in your
ceasing to take delight in enjoyments, which are a positive source of misery,
and loving the Lord – who is eternally true, supremely blissful and a spontaneous
and perennial source of bliss, nay, your greatest friend and well- wisher—taking
to His remembrance and seeking Him alone. If you have got enjoyments and if they
come to you, offer them as well to the Lord as materials for His worship and
dedicate your very self Him.
When you have dedicated yourself
to the Lord and become His, the very seed of other cravings will be eradicated
from your mind, which will become silent and you will experience unending joy
as a matter of course.
The supreme and ultimate
object of human existence is only t become happy through the bliss of God—Realization.
A human body has been vouchsafed to you for this noble purpose only. Therefore be
alone who takes to this work is a man in the true sense. There is no greater
fool than he who, though endowed with a human form, does not take to the remembrance
of God but remains engaged in the pursuit of enjoyment alone; for he is wasting
a golden opportunity secured by him for a capital gain, doing harm to himself,
mistaking his own loss for a gain.
The life of sensual man turns
into the life of a brute or that of a demon and his bestial and devilish acts
not only deflect him from the path of duty but wholly mar his future. He remains
engaged in sinful pursuits all his life and after death he has to take repeated
birth in demonic wombs and suffer tortures in hell.
A wise man is who does not
fall into the snare of enjoyments, which cause (only) momentary delight, nor
falls a prey to a longing for them nor fritters away his life in their pursuit,
realizing as he does devotes every single moment of his life to the all-
blissful remembrance of God and does everything as an act of service—worship of
the Lord.
A wise and fortunate man is
he who has focussed all his sense of mine on the Lord as his own, nay, who has
dedicated his entire ego to the service of the Lord and all whose attachment and
desire stand fastened on the Lord alone.