Passage 13

In English

Great importance is attached to in the philosophy. does not mean that one should run away from home, leaving wife and children. Leaving bad thoughts is real . This is true . Even while engaged in daily chores, one should fill the heart with divine feelings at all times. Do not give any scope to (ego) and (attachment). Two things are responsible for all difficulties of man: ‘I’ and ‘mine’. The path of knowledge involves the elimination of the feeling of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. To hold something in hand is difficult, and to drop it is easy. The says, (Immortality is attained only by sacrifice). In olden days, the forest tribal’s had an easy method of catching monkeys. They deployed a pot having a narrow neck. The monkey gets attracted to the nuts placed in the pot. As the monkey puts in its hand and catches the nuts, the fist is stuck up in the pot, and the monkey is caught easily. Similarly, man is inviting troubles with his monkey mind. Worldly pleasures are like the food in the pot of the world. You stretch your hand to catch the food. The monkey mind of man, not mankind, holds that food. So, you are caught and bound. If you open your fist and leave the food, you become free. This is true renunciation.