Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

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VICHABALA.
affected with healthy and tinhcalthy
My mind oughts.
feels very miserable like a husband tormented inCessantly with two quarrelling wives.
As a husband is always worried by his two wives quarrelling among them, so am I in extreme misery, for the mind being sometimes influenced or actuated by good desires and their reverse. And for an identity of relation of the good and bad, from illusion or ignorance of Self being quite unaffected by them, as he is free and actionless, I attribute misery to him.
Desire is a river, with good and bad for its banks, Gratification its water, thirst wave, and illusion whirlpool
In other words, never casing desire for the acquisition of material comforts is compad to a river, bounded by the banks of discrimination of meririous works and their reverse, filled with the water of gratification, that is to say, the means for accomplishment of objects desired and struggling to that purpose, with the heavy surges of 'thirst' and 'whirlpool' of illusion, which hurl an individual to re-birth from ignorance of Self and connecting him with this or that, the physical body and the rest.
In that river the presence of animals is thus declared :— Passions are animals many, thinking is the current strong;
One who has subjugated them, is free from pain, but myself am miserable.
Affection, anger and lust resemble the aquatic animals, fishes, tortoise and the rest; and thoughts represent a current with its velocity. To restrain the mind so as not to allow its being modified for the acquisition of material welfare; to sit patiently in a retired place aloof from the rest, for the practice