Passage 12

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This man falls on those things of his own accord and becomes bound. It is not that those things, or joys, or responsibilities, or families bind him in the least. If he lets go of it, he gets out. That is precisely why, while we carry out these duties bound up with the world, we must make the effort to keep the mind, at least, from settling into that feeling. This same bondage is shown well in the Gajendra Mokṣa too. In the dense forest of life, the mind, like a rutting elephant, roams about freely. This mind, like a rutting elephant roaming freely in the dense forest: a thirst for worldly things comes upon it. When that worldly thirst comes upon it, it begins to drink in this pool called saṃsāra. The moment it sets foot in it, the crocodile called attachment seizes it. The instant this crocodile called attachment has seized it, there is no freeing itself from it. This mind, like a rutting elephant, cannot do it. Then, after struggling and struggling with that attachment for some time, at the very last: ‘I know none but You! O God! I want no saṃsāra at all any more; save me now at least, and free me from the torment of this crocodile,’ and he turns his gaze toward Īśvara. Then Īśvara turns His gaze upon him. This is what they called Sudarśana. Sudarśana is not a discus. It is the good gaze. The very moment Īśvara's gaze came to the elephant, Īśvara's gaze spread over this elephant. At once release from bondage took place. So we need Sudarśana. Only then can the rays of God's grace shine upon us. I will not agree at all to take up much time and tire you. Since the time has come, and since this is what concerns today's śloka, there is no need for us to go on to the Gajendra Mokṣa. How a person changed in his life, from comfort, from his desire, to the very end: right by Swami there is a model example of it, of such an experience too.