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CYCLE OF WORLDLY EXISTENCE
of hell have to suffer through sheer helplessness and again these sufferings last for many many years due to the prolonged life.
In divine state, even though there are means of significant comforts, covetousness, jealousy, passion and the like are common and so there is intense mutual hatred, jealousy and many other mental sufferings. The higher gods are blessed with self-knowledge. Their suffering is therefore relatively lessened. There is less anger; and contentment is high. The passions are well subdued. Still however, dependence and sorrows do exist because of the absence of the natural happiness of the Soul (Alma).
Once we thoroughly know the pains and sufferings of these four states, we get a proper perspective of the worldly existence; mundane transmigration really frightens us and a feeling of detachment is born. One feels an urgent need to get free from such feelings at the earliest possible time and thus is stimulated the desire for liberation.
MUNDANE TRANSMIGRATION : A GREAT DISTRESS 1. Birth, old age, decay, death - and the same again and again; all these are painful events. The ocean of such transmigration is full of pains and sufferings and is unfathomable. O Wise people ! therefore awake from the sleep of delusion. 2. The religion of the detached ones is the supreme reality. Let it be steady in my mind, let it make my heart lustrous. Let me be free from the cycle of birth and death Jiva ! Ponder a little more, give up idleness, awake and see that your invaluable birth as a human being is not wasted. 3. Due to failure to acquire dispassion, humility and the preachings of the enlightened ones, this soul has wandered hither and tither for long. What is past is past, let me now awaken myself; make a sincere effort and be victorious. 4. O Jiva, you suffered in all the four states. Seek refuge in utter peace and tranquility by pondering on God the Supreme and self-knowledge. LIVING EXAMPLES OF REVOLVING IN WORLDLY LIFE
This is a incident from the life of Shree Roop Goswami, the renowned pupil of Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu of the fifteenth century. SAMSARA-PARIBHRAMANA
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