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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

#010 A SCHOLAR SHOULD ABANDON CRAVINGS FOR LUXURIES

A SCHOLAR SHOULD ABANDON CRAVINGS, DESIRES AND LUST FOR EXTERNAL LUXURIES.
Verse No. 008

Atoo vimuktai prayateeta vidvaan
sanyasta baahyaardha sukhas sprihan
santam mahaantam samupeetya dees`ikam
teenoopad isht`aardha samaahita aatmaa.

Hence: (Continuation from verse No. 007: because wealth cannot be a contributor to attain immortality or liberation):

A scholar should abandon his cravings and desires for external luxuries. He must approach great saints and live according to their precepts.

My comments as blogger
*Efforts towards self-realisation, are always individual ventures.
*A teacher can only guide and suggest.
*The teachers themselves might not have experienced the true knowledge and self-realisation.
*The concept of liberation from the cycle of births and deaths, is an offshoot of imagination. There is no proof of rebirth after death.
*Liberation from the bonds of 'I and my', 'cravings, desires, and lust' during this life-time is a goal worthwhile striving for.

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