Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

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

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VICHAR MALA.
to cause emancipation by the ascertainment of what is proper to be done; and if one is prevented from acting in this 'mauner, and immersed headlong in the sea of an earthly career his metempsychosis is inevitable, and therefore he is a prince of dunce. "Who is content with sleeping, cating, and enjoying, is no better than a brute." "Self-knowledge is supreme knowledge, without it, a man is a beast." Thus having considered the faults and defects present in children detected by a person of discrimination, the same method of analysis is carried with regard to home.
House resembles a dark well,
Who knows it not to be deceitful,
Is enthralled in affection like a beast
For a sou and wife, and subjected to re-birth:
But all these are like a mirage,
False, as they are deceiving.
A blind well is a well without water situated in a desert. House resembles it, therefore to shew any attachment to it, or to endeavour to make it commodious, and comfortable to its innates,―wife, children etc., are so many bolds subjecting its owner to transmigration; for, all of them are deceitful and unreal, because impermanent like mirage water; and who knows it not, but centres his belief in the affection of his wife and children, and loves them accordingly, as also his home, misunderstands them and is deceived.
Likewise all substances are faulty.
Who regards wealth to be a source of bliss,
Is deceived: and all objects are far Removed from happiness.
Like children, wife and home, wealth is a source of afflic tion and who regards it otherwise is deceived. Because wealth makes a person forget the invaluable wealth,-knowledge of Brahma. And that knowledge helps the acquisition of