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NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
desires. It is unconquerable. Enjoyment does not
bring satisfaction of a desire. Just as fire is increased
by pouring ghee over so also desire is strengthened
by Bhoga. Have you not studied the life of Raja Yayati
in Mahabharata ? He borrowed the youthful state
from his son and enjoyed for thousands of years and
cried out in the end: "Alas! my passion has not
gone. There is no satiety. My heart is still burning
with lust." Bartrihari weeps bitterly: "I have re-
nounced the world, wife and kingdom. I live on leaves
and water. I do penance, yet lust is troubling me."
Such is the potency of desire.
That is the reason why Lord Krishna says in the
Gita "Enveloped is wisdom by this constant enemy
of the wise in the form of desire, which is insatiable
as a flame. The senses, the mind and the reason are
said to be its seat; by these, enveloping wisdom, it
bewilders the dweller in the body. Therefore, O best
of the Bharatas, mastering first the senses do thou
slay this thing of sin, destructive of wisdom and
knowledge. Thus understanding Him as greater than
the Reason, restraining the self by the self, slay thou,
O mighty-armed, the enemy in the form of desire,
difficult to overcome. When a man abandoneth, O
Partha, all the desires of the heart, and is satisfied in
the self, by the Self, then is he called stable in mind."
Chapt. III 39, 40, 41, 43. Chapt. II
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55.
First annihilate Asakti, then the Kamana (long-
ing) will die by itself. Eventually preference also will
be destroyed. When the attraction towards external
objects ceases, then there yet remains Trishna (thirst-
ing for objects). This is the most dangerous enemy
NARADA BHAKTI SUTRAS
desires. It is unconquerable. Enjoyment does not
bring satisfaction of a desire. Just as fire is increased
by pouring ghee over so also desire is strengthened
by Bhoga. Have you not studied the life of Raja Yayati
in Mahabharata ? He borrowed the youthful state
from his son and enjoyed for thousands of years and
cried out in the end: "Alas! my passion has not
gone. There is no satiety. My heart is still burning
with lust." Bartrihari weeps bitterly: "I have re-
nounced the world, wife and kingdom. I live on leaves
and water. I do penance, yet lust is troubling me."
Such is the potency of desire.
That is the reason why Lord Krishna says in the
Gita "Enveloped is wisdom by this constant enemy
of the wise in the form of desire, which is insatiable
as a flame. The senses, the mind and the reason are
said to be its seat; by these, enveloping wisdom, it
bewilders the dweller in the body. Therefore, O best
of the Bharatas, mastering first the senses do thou
slay this thing of sin, destructive of wisdom and
knowledge. Thus understanding Him as greater than
the Reason, restraining the self by the self, slay thou,
O mighty-armed, the enemy in the form of desire,
difficult to overcome. When a man abandoneth, O
Partha, all the desires of the heart, and is satisfied in
the self, by the Self, then is he called stable in mind."
Chapt. III 39, 40, 41, 43. Chapt. II
-
-
55.
First annihilate Asakti, then the Kamana (long-
ing) will die by itself. Eventually preference also will
be destroyed. When the attraction towards external
objects ceases, then there yet remains Trishna (thirst-
ing for objects). This is the most dangerous enemy