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Having known a thing to be poisonous, however thirsty or hungry you may be, you will not have the temptation to drink or eat it; so too, however tempting the sense-objects may look, an individual who craves for self-liberation should
ounce totally the idea that sense-objects contain even a bit of real potency to supply joy.
In thus withdrawing our sense-organs from their fields of activity, we are releasing a tremendous amount of energy which would have been, otherwise, wasted. If this newfound energy is not immediately harnessed to do special work, the chances are that we will be spending this dynamism in mentally dreaming of sense-indulgence. This brings about an ugly deformity in the individual concerned. To remain physically inert and mentally sensuous impoverishes man and makes him a distorted personality, drained of all its brilliance and beauty through suppressed thoughts and unseen mental dissipations !!
It is to avoid these dangerous consequences in the mental plane that we have here the guidance of the teacher. To employ the newly-released energy 'fresh fields have been discovered, where they can, not only exhaust themselves but bring smiling crops of beauty and profit! We are told how an individual who has learnt to shun sense-objects and keep himself away from them, must immediately take up the constructive scheme of developing the positive qualities of a potent and effective personality. We are asked to cultivate qualities of contentment, compassion, forgiveness, straightforwardness, calmness and self-control. When you analyse them, you will find that each one of these qualities is, in itself, an attitude of our mind which will not suffer even the least disturbance in our mind. As we diligently practise them, necessarily, we will be seeking and establishing an identity without fellow-beings and come to enjoy the intimate brotherhood of man and the divine Father-hood of the soul !
अनुक्षणं यत्परिहृत्य कृत्य
___ मनाद्यविद्याकृतबन्धमोक्षणम् । देह परार्थोऽयममुष्य पोषणे ।
यः सजते स स्वमनेन हन्ति ॥ ८३॥
