Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

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

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VICHAD MALA.
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Like the purifrag tire, which purification arising at the sametime willing the kindling of fire having an upward motion, mind - is naturally fickle from the beginning of time, pervades objects which are capable of enjoyment and its reverse, is bent after their acquirement, and shows its attach-** ment for them. Why is mind unsteady?
Whether the world is unreal or real? One cannot part with his house and family. A house-holder resembles a snake Swallowing a mole, which it neither swallows nor can
let go. Doubts are the so'yice of fickleness or unsteadiness of the mind. For instance, when they assume the form of the reality or otherwise of the naterial universe. Whether, if unreal, it is produced of itself, or through the agency of another ? Whether that another is Jival or Iswara ? If it be Iswara's creation whether he was ordained to do it or not? Is such control visible or not ? Now these doubts are not capable of being removed by ordinary explanation, and they are a source of pain: like a snake swallowing a mole which it is unable either to throw or gulp down. Because in the former case the swallowing is sure to take out its eyes, and in the latter the body of the snake is to become loathsome.
Now the Guru removes these doubts and speaks with kindness thus :
"Have faith in my words and clear your doubts.” With kindness the Guru replies to his pupil in answer to his queries about the reality etc., of this vast expanse. Pupil, depend upon my words ; for Bhagwan Sri Krishna says in the Gita "A man of faith acquires knowledge from the utterances of the. Vedas." And as the words of a theosophist are equal to the Vedas, inasmuch as a kuower of BRAHMA is BRAHMA,