Passage 18

In English

We must try to suppress and control the desires that surge forth from within the body. There is a small example for this: Sometimes we go for a picnic in the garden. We create various comforts for ourselves, we cook our own food, we sit there and we eat our food and relax with pleasure. In the forest, if we want to cook our food what is it that we do? In modern times, we take a stove, a cooker and such implements with us. In ancient times, such implements were not available. They used to take only some vessels and some materials necessary for making the food. When we want to cook the food, we prepare a hearth with three stones. On the three stones, we put the pot. We pour water in the pot. In that water, we mix rice. Below the vessel which is resting on these three stones, we put fire. We put the fire so that the water inside the vessel may boil and the rice gets cooked. The fire, which we have put between the three stones, is not directly touching the rice; but it touches the vessel and through the vessel it touches the water and through the water it goes to the rice and the rice is cooked. Here we should recognise that our life is an example in the Adhyatmic path. Life is like a forest. In this forest of life, the three stones are the of , and . These three are like the three stones. In the forest of life, we put the vessel of our body on these three stones. Inside the vessel of our body, the desires that we have are like the rice. This rice is filled with which can be compared with water, and then we use the fire of wisdom between the three stones. That fire of wisdom will cook the rice by using the water of and will drive away these desires. When this rice is well cooked, there is no rebirth. When the desire is completely removed, there is no chance of getting bad desires; but one may ask the question here, is it possible to completely remove all the desires? It is impossible. But we must make an attempt to turn this desire towards the right direction. Whatever work we may do, we must do that work with the aspect of and love. It is only then that we will be able to obtain sacred bliss.