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cannot bring his sugar down even though he is getting saline injections daily if he is continuously consuming sugar !!
A human mind is disintegrated because of its desires, and it cannot be brought back to its state of healthy integration, without it renouncing the very germs of its present disease. Thus, in Vedanta, a great insistence has been put always upon the necessity of avoiding the mind running amock with its uncontrolled appetites.
This idea is again explained here in a very powerful style. Sankara crisply "repeats what the Rishis have been continuously repeating in the pages of the Scriptures, that the path of sensuousness leads us straight into the 'tomb of mortality', while the Path Divine, takes us to the 'womb of Immortality'. Physiology also, in a much more limited sense of the term, declares that over-indulgence impoverishes our vitality and brings the physical structure to its doom and death. In Vedanta, however, the term 'death' connotes, not only the condition of the body when the expression of life has ebbed out from it, but includes the very principle of change and finitude.
Thus, sensuous activities, with motives of pleasure and indulgence, harden the animal impressions in our mind, and thereafter, thoughts-begin to flow in that direction more and more powerfully and strongly. Such a stupid man becomes more and more daring in his criminalities, until at last, getting irredeemable, slips down from the ladder of evolution. Like an avalanche, at each yard of its fall, it gathers both in its mass and in its speed, and carrying everything before it, it rushes down ultimately to get itself destroyed at the end of a trail of destructions !
. On the other hand, the way up the evolution! is also open to man by walking which he can slowly climb to the very pinnacles of total fulfilment and joyous self-satisfaction. This path has been beautifully described in the third line of the stanza. It insists that we must follow the instructions given by the reliable guides on the path of spirituality, called the 'Gurus'.
