Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Pollution

The great saint Tulsidas has hinted to avoid many bad habits . He says, is there anyone in this
world whom lust has not made a puppet of? Who has not been maddened by the thirst
for enjoyment and whose heart has not been inflamed by anger? Is there any sage, ascetic, hero, seer, man of learning or man of virtue in this
world, whom greed has not batrayed? Again, whom has the pride of pelf not perverted?
Who has not been deafened by power?
Who is not thrown out of his mental equipoise by the combined action of the
modes as by the synchronous derangement of the humours of
the body eg.false ego , pride ,negative use of scientific facilities ,which generally proves fatal to the victim according to the principles of
health? None has escaped the stings of pride and arrogance. Who does not get
wildly excited under an attack of fever in the form of youth and whose good reputation
is not marred by worldly attachment? Who does not incur obloquy through envy and who
is not shaken by the blast of grief? Who is not bitten by the serpent of anxiety? And is there
anyone in this world who is not overcome by false attachment (the delusive potency of God)?
Again, is there anyone so resolute of mind, whose body is not being consumed by desire
as a piece of wood is eaten away by a wooded-borer? Whose mind has not been
polluted by the threefold desire.the desire of progeny, the desire of wealth and the desire of fame?

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