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lesser”. That is why we are left stranded. We gain nothing out of anybody.
The learned have told us time and again that in this external world wherever you have placed your love, whether in a person or in a thing, all that is perishable. It is not a love that will fetch you everlasting happiness. Withdraw from it and look within your self. There is so much within your self that will give you happiness. If you get enamoured with it, if you turn towards it, you can very well achieve it. The element within you is independent, inborn and natural. But will the temptation for external things stop only with the awakening of a strong yearning for the internal, not otherwise? A child stops eating dirt if you get him a chocolate, not otherwise. Brothers! The external relations, the external loves are all like dirt to us.
Great men while telling us about the strengths of the Soul, say, 'Happiness is within yourself, yet you lose it in search of external happiness'.
सुख प्राप्त करतां सुख टळे छे लेश ए लक्षे लहो,
क्षण क्षण भयंकर भाव मरणे कां अहो राची रहो Joy seeps out as you hold it, that is the catch mind you, This agony of virtual death every moment, why let it bind you?
___Have you ever thought over this line - सुख प्राप्त करतां सुख टळे छे - joy is lost as you get joy? You may have sung these lines or heard them so many times before. Do you think it sounds logical? You enjoy when you get joy, you don't lose it. Then why has Srimadji put it thus? Would he have erred by any chance? We are used to looking at things on the surface, hence we feel there is something wrong here. Yet when the great men present us with some gem of wisdom they have both the superficial view and the internal view before them. Their explanation considers both these views. Hence Srimadji explains, “joy is lost as you get joy'. The first joy here is the material joy, material pleasure. While we struggle to achieve the joy, the happiness of our soul
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