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VICHAR MALA.
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Says the pupil.
Bhagaban, a knower of Self, Whatever enjoyment he has : Fixes not his intellect on it,
But is tranquil and free from desire. Blagaban, a theosophist from the influence of that unseen [adrishta), has his share of enjoyment, but he has no conceit for it, nor does he connect Self with an agent or enjoyer. Then again, as his passions and desires have all been destroyed (which are so many diseases of the internal organ or better, heart], he has naturally no predilection for it (enjoyment); for he is tranquil and free from the disease, gnorance.
But it can be maintained that the unreal attachment of a theosophist for worldly enjoyments may lead to his subsequent re-birth, in the same manner as the attachment of the ignorant does. To this the reply is :
An ignorant person is intensely desirous Of worldly enjoyments; for which he is reboro.
A theosophist has it not,
No matter whether he receives or forsakes.
Ignorant men attribute all works to Self, consider him an agent or enjoyer, and have a conceit too, which a theosphist has not: hence though he may be found to be receiving alms, or giving a portion of them away [to his pupils), literally for the absence of that conceit and predilection for enjoymeut, he is never subjected to re-irth.
Why has he go onceit of Self as an agent? Because in the sight of a theophist, Jiva is neither a doer nor enjoyer.
Infinite and encyess are the course of the ignorant. Their heart resemble the wind in touching things. And suffer pain many, In the bodies they inherit.
