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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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Here is an instance of an illiterate shepherd but some highly educated and recognised scholars also use to say, "What is the use of that liberated condition of soul in which there are no sensual joys and pleasures to eat, drink and make merry. It is better to be born as a jackal of Vrindavana forest to spy beautiful faces of shepherd girls rather than aspire for such liberation''! Their attachment for passions only make them utter in this manner but those great ones who have thoroughly realised the significance of life and the worldly affairs say, "Enjoyments of sensual pleasures are like darts-like poison. They are dreadful like poisonous cobras. Those who crave for such pleasures are degraded without their cravings unsatiated. Such sensual pleasures last for a moment and bestow miseries for a long time. Therein pleasure is negligible and misery is immense. They are great barriers to happiness resulting from liberation of soul. They are the sources of calamities.
This means that one who is detached from sensual pleasures only can relish the idea of liberation or emancipation, and such persons only would enjoy the unfathomable bliss of soul.
In this entire universe, liberated condition of soul is the only condition wherein there is no possibility of any sort of misery whatsoever. You might doubt and ask, “Everywhere there is misery then why misery does not exist in such condition ?"
To this we reply, “The causes of miseries, viz. hunger, thirst, diseases, sorrow, fear, fatigue, aggressions, slavery, birth, oldage death, etc., do not exist there, i.e., in the liberated condition of the soul.”
When you desire for something and when you can not have it, you are bound to meet with disappointment, frustration and unrest but desires themselves do not exist here in the liberated condition of the soul as all the objects are already accomplished by the soul; then where is the possibility of misery, disappointment frustration or unrest?
You know well, passions create desire but in liberated condition of the soul all passions are extinguished, whereby no desires are created. Moreover, for the birth of such desires seductive mental operation is necessary but in the liberated condition of the soul such mental operation is not possible because of the absence of
